AI safety

“The thing that I will say is we fiercely compete with a whole bunch of these folks. But, like, one of the things that I don't do is, like, look at any of those companies that you just named and, like, worry that they're going to do something that like, is, lik…”

“And the way you make this healthy competition is not By trusting a couple of companies to do their own safety, it's rather for, it's rather the way you do it is to ask application makers to comply with some rules.”

“Safety isn't, as I've been I'm trying to reinforce not really that much of a technical problem. This is more of a complex geopolitical problem with technical aspects.”

“Since it'd be such a big deal we'd need to make sure that we can think about it properly channel it in a productive direction, and take care of some sort of tail risks which will, are generally systematically under addressed.”

“So I view the distinction between alignment and safety as alignment as being a sort of subset of safety. Obviously you want the value systems of the AIs to be in keeping with or compatible with say the US public for USAIs or for you as an individual, but that …”

“The first part of the safety of a product is that it performed as advertised. The first part of safety is performance.”