This is a rerelease of a May 2023 episode featuring Ajeya Cotra, now at METR (an AI safety organization), discussing AI alignment and the risks of training increasingly capable AI systems. The core metaphor is an orphaned eight-year-old inheriting a $1 trillion company and needing to hire an adult to run it based only…
Worth it if you want to understand core AI safety concerns through clear metaphors, care about alignment risks, or want to learn what informed researchers were warning about before recent AI incidents.