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Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe

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Ajeya Cotra joins us to discuss how artificial intelligence could cause catastrophe.
Follow the work of Ajeya and her colleagues: https://www.openphilanthropy.org
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:53 AI safety research in general
02:04 Realistic scenarios for AI catastrophes
06:51 A dangerous AI model developed in the near future
09:10 Assumptions behind dangerous AI development
14:45 Can AIs learn long-term planning?
18:09 Can AIs understand human psychology?
22:32 Training an AI model with naive safety features
24:06 Can AIs be deceptive?
31:07 What happens after deploying an unsafe AI system?
44:03 What can we do to prevent an AI catastrophe?
53:58 The next episode