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Jan Leike

Former head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropic

But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

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AI alignment is solvable

Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable [...] Since then a lot has happened: pretraining continued improving and RL became a much bigger deal.

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