WELCOME TO THE AI SAFETY SERIES, FEATURING FILMED INTERVIEWS WITH INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN THE AI SAFETY FIELD, ABOUT THEIR LIVES & WORK.

In this episode, I speak to Gabe Alfour, a co-founder and the CTO of Conjecture, and an advisor to ControlAI. Conjecture is an AI Safety organisation, based in London. ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

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🕒 TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro

0:15 - What are Conjecture & ControlAI?

1:22 - Why are you starting to speak out?

2:45 - Working in crypto

4:23 - GPT-3 caused me to pivot into AI safety

7:30 - What is alignment?

9:45 - What is AI alignment?

12:57 - Story of co-founding Conjecture

14:52 - What has Conjecture worked on?

18:13 - Why run Conjecture as a for-profit?

20:02 - Publishing 'The Compendium'

21:25 - How could AI cause human extinction?

25:21 - What do ControlAI do?

28:09 - Transitioning to policy work from technical

30:04 - Dissecting the 'AI safety community' into 4 groups

32:59 - Personal impact of belief in AI causing extinction

35:01 - Biggest lesson learnt: people are too cynical

39:06 - Believing great change is possible

42:00 - CLOSING QU: What is a good life?

👤 GABE ALFOUR:

X - https://x.com/gabe_cc

Conjecture - https://www.conjecture.dev/about

ControlAI - https://controlai.com/

'The Compendium' - https://www.thecompendium.ai/

'A Narrow Path' - https://www.narrowpath.co/

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