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Cold Takes Audio
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50 episodes
9 months ago
Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.https://www.cold-takes.com/what-ai-companies-can-do-today-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/
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Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.https://www.cold-takes.com/what-ai-companies-can-do-today-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/
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Episodes (20/50)
Cold Takes Audio
What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century
Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.https://www.cold-takes.com/what-ai-companies-can-do-today-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/
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2 years ago
18 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Jobs that can help with the most important century
People are far better at their jobs than at anything else. Here are the best ways to help the most important century go well.https://www.cold-takes.com/jobs-that-can-help-with-the-most-important-century/
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2 years ago
30 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Spreading messages to help with the most important century
For people who want to help improve our prospects for navigating transformative AI, and have an audience (even a small one).https://www.cold-takes.com/spreading-messages-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/
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2 years ago
20 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
How we could stumble into AI catastrophe
Hypothetical stories where the world tries, but fails, to avert a global disaster.https://www.cold-takes.com/how-we-could-stumble-into-ai-catastrophe
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2 years ago
28 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Transformative AI issues (not just misalignment): an overview
An overview of key potential factors (not just alignment risk) for whether things go well or poorly with transformative AI.https://www.cold-takes.com/transformative-ai-issues-not-just-misalignment-an-overview/
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2 years ago
25 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Racing Through a Minefield: the AI Deployment Problem
Push AI forward too fast, and catastrophe could occur. Too slow, and someone else less cautious could do it. Is there a safe course?https://www.cold-takes.com/racing-through-a-minefield-the-ai-deployment-problem/
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2 years ago
21 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
High-level hopes for AI aligment
A few ways we might get very powerful AI systems to be safe.https://www.cold-takes.com/high-level-hopes-for-ai-alignment/
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2 years ago
23 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
AI safety seems hard to measure
Four analogies for why "We don't see any misbehavior by this AI" isn't enough.https://www.cold-takes.com/ai-safety-seems-hard-to-measure/
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2 years ago
22 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Why Would AI "Aim" To Defeat Humanity?
Today's AI development methods risk training AIs to be deceptive, manipulative and ambitious. This might not be easy to fix as it comes up.https://www.cold-takes.com/why-would-ai-aim-to-defeat-humanity/
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2 years ago
46 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
The Track Record of Futurists Seems ... Fine
We scored mid-20th-century sci-fi writers on nonfiction predictions. They weren't great, but weren't terrible either. Maybe doing futurism works fine.https://www.cold-takes.com/the-track-record-of-futurists-seems-fine/
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3 years ago
21 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Nonprofit Boards are Weird
With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability. https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/
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3 years ago
25 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined
How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets.https://www.cold-takes.com/ai-could-defeat-all-of-us-combined/
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3 years ago
23 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Useful Vices for Wicked Problems
Investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation.https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/
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3 years ago
25 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
What kind of governance system should you set up, if you're starting from scratch and can do it however you want?https://www.cold-takes.com/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more/
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3 years ago
17 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”
Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good?https://www.cold-takes.com/debating-myself-on-whether-extra-lives-lived-are-as-good-as-deaths-prevented/
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3 years ago
20 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
The Wicked Problem Experience
A day in the life of trying to complete a self-assigned project with no clear spec or goal. https://www.cold-takes.com/the-wicked-problem-experience/
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3 years ago
14 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Learning By Writing
3 years ago
16 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Defending One-Dimensional Ethics
First in a series of dialogues on utilitarianism and "future-proof ethics."https://www.cold-takes.com/defending-one-dimensional-ethics/
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3 years ago
26 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Future-Proof Ethics
Ethics based on common sense seems to have a horrible historical track record. Can we do better?https://www.cold-takes.com/future-proof-ethics/
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3 years ago
27 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Stakeholder Management and Cost Disease
3 years ago
18 minutes

Cold Takes Audio
Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.https://www.cold-takes.com/what-ai-companies-can-do-today-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/