AI safety

“Safety is not a function of technology. It's a function of how we apply it. So like electric motor, you know, You can't, the maker of electric motor can't guarantee that no one will ever use it for an unsafe downstream task. Like using electric, electric motor…”

“At the time, a lot of the AI safety discussion was kind of theoretical, like the models weren't actually that good. They weren't really posing these dangers, so it was a lot more like philosophical.”

“One dystopia that I'm particularly nervous about 10 years from now is we overreact to AI safety, and so we say, look, everyone, you're gonna get a cure for cancer, you're gonna have material abundance, but you will have no freedom, you will have no agency, it …”