Description
Jeremie Harris, co-founder of AI safety research company Gladstone AI, joins us to explain the fallout from the OpenAI board shakeup, what it means for the AI space, and the implications for work on AI safety.
2:37 - What went down at OpenAI
7:19 - What this means for Microsoft
9:00 - Winners & losers post-shakeup
11:04 - The conflict between the AI safety crowd and accelerationists
14:23 - Differences between OpenAI and Anthropic's approach to safety
17:23 - Impact of OpenAI changes on AI safety
21:58 - Was there a breakthrough at OpenAI? What is Q*?
32:09 - What would real-world consequences of better AI be?
41:06 - The effective altruist movement and role it plays in AI
47:45 - Are we making progress on AI safety problems? What's the prognosis?
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Links:
Gladstone AI (https://www.gladstone.ai/)
Last Week in AI Podcast (https://www.lastweekinai.com/)
Jeremie's first episode on Free Lunch (https://readthepeak.com/episodes/a-disturbing-conversation-about-ai)
More episodes of Free Lunch by The Peak: https://readthepeak.com/shows/free-lunch
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