Listeners loved our episode about his book Algorithms to Live By - so when the team read his new book, The Alignment Problem, and found it to be an insightful and comprehensive review of the state of the research into making advanced AI useful and reliably safe, getting him back on the show was a no-brainer.īrian has so much of substance to say this episode will likely be of interest to people who know a lot about AI as well as those who know a little, and of interest to people who are nervous about where AI is going as well as those who aren’t nervous at all. Call me when AI can tell me what the word ‘it’ means in such and such a sentence.” And then it’s like, “Okay, well we’re there, so, can we call you now?”īrian Christian is a bestselling author with a particular knack for accurately communicating difficult or technical ideas from both mathematics and computer science. It’s funny, if you track a lot of the nay-saying that existed circa 2017 or 2018 around AGI, a lot of people would be like, “Well, call me when AI can do that.
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