AI safety
6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2023 by Deepa Sitaraman · across every show →
Everything said about AI safety, oldest first
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Jan 24, 2024 positive
Pineau: AI alignment is a grounded research problem, unlike speculative sentience concerns
“We've talked a lot this year about safety, for example, about how to make sure that we have models that are performing well, but also are aligning with the values of peoples and the needs of people which I consider sort of a much more grounded problem that we …”
May 14, 2025 negative
Bender argues AI bioweapon risks are speculative fiction distracting from real harms
“Bad actors could use it to, you know, more quickly design, you know viruses and stuff like that. That's still speculative, right? So anytime we are taking the focus away, it's like, has that happened? Right? This is still people writing science fiction, fan fi…”
Jul 30, 2025
Amodei: AI safety and capabilities cannot be developed separately
“I think in this field, the alignment of AI systems and the capability of AI systems is intertwined in this way that always ends up being kind of more tied and more intertwined than we think. Actually what this made me realize is that It's very hard to work on …”
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Aug 19, 2026
Bostrom: AI Safety Is Now Critical During Pre-Deployment Testing
“From this point onward, probably AI safety is relevant not only for deployment but also during training and evaluation. Like these models might be quite powerful even before they are sort of released to the general public. So that's not the only point at which…”