{"id":156363,"date":"2023-01-26T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/connor-leahy-on-ai-safety-and-why-the-world-is-fragile"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:23:38","slug":"connor-leahy-on-ai-safety-and-why-the-world-is-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/connor-leahy-on-ai-safety-and-why-the-world-is-fragile","title":{"rendered":"Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSL3Zau1X8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research. Learn more about Connor\u2019s work at <a href=\"https:\/\/conjecture.dev\">https:\/\/conjecture.dev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/> 00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 00:47 What is the best way to understand AI safety?<br \/> 09:50 Why is the world relatively stable?<br \/> 15:18 Is the main worry human misuse of AI?<br \/> 22:47 Can humanity solve AI safety?<br \/> 30:06 Can we slow down AI development?<br \/> 37:13 How should governments regulate AI?<br \/> 41:09 How do we avoid misallocating AI safety government grants?<br \/> 51:02 Should AI safety research be done by for-profit companies?<\/p>\n<p>Social Media Links:<br \/> \u27a1\ufe0f WEBSITE: <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\">https:\/\/futureoflife.org<\/a>.<br \/> \u27a1\ufe0f TWITTER: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLIxrisk\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLIxrisk<\/a>.<br \/> \u27a1\ufe0f INSTAGRAM: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/futureoflifeinstitute\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/futureoflifeinstitute\/<\/a><br \/> \u27a1\ufe0f META: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futureoflifeinstitute\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futureoflifeinstitute<\/a>.<br \/> \u27a1\ufe0f LINKEDIN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/future-of-life-institute\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/future-of-life-institute\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research. Learn more about Connor\u2019s work at https:\/\/conjecture.dev. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction. 00:47 What is the best way to understand AI safety? 09:50 Why is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}