Ajeya Cotra

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AI safety researcher; senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy

Speaks on: AI Governance AI Policy AI Regulation AI Safety Ethics

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Location: United States

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely
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I think that what we want to do as a society, if we gain confidence that we’re at the starting point of this intelligence explosion, is to redirect as much of that AI labour as we can from further AI R&D to things that could help protect us from futu...
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