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Robert Wiblin

Robert Wiblin

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Host, 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin

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  • Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

    By Robert Wiblin| 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin Verified Another thing you might do once you’ve caught your AI trying to escape is let the AI think it succeeded, and see what it does. Presumably when the AI got caught, it was in the midst of taking some actions that it thought would let it launch a rogue deployment. If your model knows a bunch of security vulnerabilities in your software, it might start deploying all those things. — Buck ShlegerisMost AI safety conversations centre on alignment: ensuring AI systems share our values and goals.

    By Robert Wiblin · 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin

    Apr. 04, 2025

  • Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we're completely unprepared

    By Robert Wiblin| 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin Verified You should really pause and reflect on the fact that many companies now are saying what we want to do is build AGI — AI that is as good as humans. OK, what does it look like? What does a good society look like when we have humans and we have trillions of AI beings going around that are functionally much more capable? What’s the vision like? How do we coexist in an ethical and morally respectable way? And it’s like… there’s nothing. We’re careening towards this vision that is just a void, essentially.

    By Robert Wiblin · 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin

    Mar. 11, 2025

  • Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

    By Robert Wiblin| 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin Verified Another thing you might do once you’ve caught your AI trying to escape is let the AI think it succeeded, and see what it does. Presumably when the AI got caught, it was in the midst of taking some actions that it thought would let it launch a rogue deployment. If your model knows a bunch of security vulnerabilities in your software, it might start deploying all those things. — Buck ShlegerisMost AI safety conversations centre on alignment: ensuring AI systems share our values and goals.

    By Robert Wiblin · 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin

    Apr. 04, 2025

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80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin