AI safety
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2024 by Matt Clifford · across every show →
Everything said about AI safety, oldest first
Jul 1, 2024
Sep 4, 2024 positive
Kolter: AI safety requires global collaboration rather than national competition
“I think there are certain things like, for example, AI safety, where we very much need to work as a world to help set standards and help better the future of everyone here. Because yes, certain things can be done by countries. Capabilities can maybe advance mo…”
Sep 4, 2024 negative
Kolter: AI safety should focus on practical risks, not sci-fi doom
“The first is that I think the vast majority of AI safety should not be about these topics. The vast majority should be about quite practical concerns we have on making systems safer, like the kind that I've talked with you about so far.”
Sep 4, 2024 positive
Kolter: AI safety is a necessary condition for using AI
“I want to develop and improve safety of these tools Because I want to use them. It's not that we have some moral imperative that we have to develop these tools. I mean, maybe there are, or we have to develop AI and AGI. Maybe that's true. But that's not what m…”
Jul 21, 2025 negative
Edwin Chen: Dismissing AI safety ignores current issues like benchmark hacking
“So I think a lot of people think AI safety is overblown, but I think they ignore the paperclip maximizer problem where you have AI models that are accidentally trained towards the wrong objectives, even though this is a big problem that all the models face tod…”