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Podcast: Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episode: Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)
Description: How seriously should governments take the threat of existential risk from AI, given the lack of consensus among researchers? On the one hand, existential risks (x-risks) are necessarily somewhat speculative: by the time there is concrete evidence, it may be too late. On the other hand, governments must prioritize — after all, they don’t worry too much about x-risk from alien invasions.
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