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Power-Seeking AI and X-risk Mitigation (AI Alignment Speaker Series)

January 1, 1970
12:00 am - 12:00 am
Date: 
Thursday, March 10, 2022 – 17:00 to 18:00
Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Summary Sentence: 
Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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A number of leading AI researchers have raised concerns about the existential risk posed by advanced AI, including Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Francesca Rossi (IBM), Shane Legg (DeepMind), and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft). In his report “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”, Joseph Carlsmith critically examines the case that AI poses an existential risk and attempts to estimate the level of risk, focusing on AI with advanced capability, agentic planning, and strategic awareness.

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