We speak with Rob Miles. Rob is the host of the “Robert Miles AI Safety” channel on YouTube, the single most popular AI alignment video series out there — he has 145,000 subscribers and his top video has ~600,000 views. He goes much deeper than

Ep 11 - Technical alignment overview w/ Thomas Larsen (Director of Strategy, Center for AI Policy)

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 37m

We speak with Thomas Larsen, Director for Strategy at the Center for AI Policy in Washington, DC, to do a "speed run" overview of all the major technical research directions in AI alignment. A great way to quickly learn broadly about the field

Ep 10 - Accelerated training to become an AI safety researcher w/ Ryan Kidd (Co-Director, MATS)

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 16m

We speak with Ryan Kidd, Co-Director at ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) program, previously "SERI MATS".MATS (https://www.matsprogram.org/) provides research mentorship, technical seminars, and connections to help new AI researchers get e

Ep 9 - Scaling AI safety research w/ Adam Gleave (CEO, FAR AI)

Nov 6th, 2023 1h 19m

We speak with Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR AI (https://far.ai). FAR AI’s mission is to ensure AI systems are trustworthy & beneficial. They incubate & accelerate research that's too resource-intensive for academia but not ready for commercialisation

Ep 8 - Getting started in AI safety & alignment w/ Jamie Bernardi (AI Safety Lead, BlueDot Impact)

Oct 12th, 2023 1h 7m

We speak with Jamie Bernardi, co-founder & AI Safety Lead at not-for-profit BlueDot Impact, who host the biggest and most up-to-date courses on AI safety & alignment at AI Safety Fundamentals (https://aisafetyfundamentals.com/). Jamie completed

Ep 7 - Responding to a world with AGI - Richard Dazeley (Prof AI & ML, Deakin University)

Aug 3rd, 2023 1h 10m

In this episode, we speak with Prof Richard Dazeley about the implications of a world with AGI and how we can best respond. We talk about what he thinks AGI will actually look like as well as the technical and governance responses we should put

Ep 6 - Will we see AGI this decade? Our AGI predictions & debate w/ Hunter Jay (CEO, Ripe Robotics)

Jul 20th, 2023 1h 20m

In this episode, we have back on the show Hunter Jay, CEO Ripe Robotics, our co-host on Ep 1. We synthesise everything we've heard on AGI timelines from experts in Ep 1-5, take in more data points, and use this to give our own forecasts for AGI

Ep 5 - Accelerating AGI timelines since GPT-4 w/ Alex Browne (ML Engineer)

May 22nd, 2023 38m 26s

In this episode, we have back on our show Alex Browne, ML Engineer, who we heard on Ep2. He got in contact after watching recent developments in the 4 months since Ep2, which have accelerated his timelines for AGI. Hear why and his latest predi

Ep 4 - When will AGI arrive? - Ryan Kupyn (Data Scientist & Forecasting Researcher @ Amazon AWS)

Mar 31st, 2023 1h 3m

In this episode, we speak with forecasting researcher & data scientist at Amazon AWS, Ryan Kupyn, about his timelines for the arrival of AGI.Ryan was recently ranked the #1 forecaster in Astral Codex Ten's 2022 Prediction contest, beating out 5

Ep 3 - When will AGI arrive? - Jack Kendall (CTO, Rain.AI, maker of neural net chips)

Feb 1st, 2023 1h 1m

In this episode, we speak with Rain.AI CTO Jack Kendall about his timelines for the arrival of AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.Hosted by Soroush Pour. Follow me for more AGI content:Twitter: https://tw

Ep 2 - When will AGI arrive? - Alex Browne (Machine Learning Engineer)

Jan 10th, 2023 58m 26s

In this episode, we speak with ML Engineer Alex Browne about his forecasted timelines for the potential arrival of AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.Hosted by Soroush Pour. Follow me for more AGI content

Ep 1 - When will AGI arrive? - Logan Riggs Smith (AGI alignment researcher)

Nov 26th, 2022 1h 10m

We speak with AGI alignment researcher Logan Riggs Smith about his timelines for AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.Hosted by Hunter Jay and Soroush PourShow linksFurther writings from Logan Riggs SmithC