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Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

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Consistently Candid Podcast

AI safety, philosophy and other things.

AUG 21

#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting

Deger Turan is the CEO of forecasting platform Metaculus and president of the AI Objectives Institute. In this episode, we discuss how forecasting can be used to help humanity coordinate around reducing existential risks, Deger's advice for aspiring forecasters, the future of using AI for forecasting and more!Enter Metaculus's Q3 AI Forecasting Benchmark TournamentGet in touch with Deger: deger@metaculus.com

54 min
JUN 20

#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk

Katja Grace is the co-founder of AI Impacts, a non-profit focused on answering key questions about the future trajectory of AI development, which is best known for conducting the world's largest survey of machine learning researchers. We talked about the most interesting results from the survey, Katja's views on whether we should slow down AI progress, the best arguments for and against existential risk from AI, parsing the online AI safety debate and more! Follow Katja on Twitter Katja'...

1h 17m
JUN 9

#10 Nathan Labenz on the current AI state-of-the-art, the Red Team in Public project, reasons for hope on AI x-risk & more

Nathan Labenz is the founder of AI content-generation platform Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, who now works full-time on tracking and analysing developments in AI. We chatted about where we currently stand with state-of-art AI capabilities, whether we should be advocating for a pause on scaling frontier models, Nathan's Red Team in Public project, and some reasons not be a hardcore doomer!Follow Nathan on TwitterListen to The Cognitive Revolution

1h 54m
MAY 15

#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development

Sheha Revanur is a the founder of Encode Justice, an international, youth-led network campaigning for the responsible development of AI, which was among the sponsors of California's proposed AI bill SB-1047. We chatted about why Sheha founded Encode Justice, the importance of youth advocacy in AI safety, and what the movement can learn from climate activism. We also dug into the details of SB-1047 and answered some common criticisms of the bill!Follow Sneha on Twitter: https://twitter.co...

50 min
APR 21

#8 Nathan Young on forecasting, AI risk & regulation, and how not to lose your mind on Twitter

Nathan Young is a forecaster, software developer and tentative AI optimist. In this episode, we discussed how Nathan approaches forecasting, why his p(doom) is 2-9%, whether we should pause AGI research, and more!Follow Nathan on Twitter: Nathan 🔍 (@NathanpmYoung) / X (twitter.com) Nathan's substack: Predictive Text | Nathan Young | SubstackMy Twitter: sarah ⏸️ (@littIeramblings) / X (twitter.com)

1h 28m
APR 10

#7 Noah Topper helps me understand Eliezer Yudkowsky

A while back, my self-confessed inability to fully comprehend the writings of Eliezer Yudkowsky elicited the sympathy of the author himself. In an attempt to more completely understand why AI is going to kill us all, I enlisted the help of Noah Topper, recent Computer Science Masters graduate and long-time EY fan, to help me break down A List of Lethalities (which, for anyone unfamiliar, is a fun list of 43 reasons why we're all totally screwed). Follow Noah on Twitter: Noah Topper 🔍⏸️ (@Noah...

1h 29m
MAR 27

#6 Holly Elmore on pausing AI, protesting, warning shots & more

Holly Elmore is an AI pause advocate and Executive Director of PauseAI US. We chatted about the case for pausing AI, her experience of organising protests against frontier AGI research, the danger of relying on warning shots, the prospect of techno-utopia, possible risks of pausing and more!Follow Holly on Twitter: Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus) / X (twitter.com)Official PauseAI US Twitter account: PauseAI US ⏸️ (@pauseaius) / X (twitter.com)My Twitter: sarah ⏸️ (@littIeramblings) / X (twitter...

1h 48m
FEB 22

#5 Joep Meindertsma on founding PauseAI and strategies for communicating AI risk

In this episode, I talked with Joep Meindertsma, founder of PauseAI, about how he discovered AI safety, the emotional experience of internalising existential risks, strategies for communicating AI risk, his assessment of recent AI policy developments and more!Find out more about PauseAI at www.pauseai.info

47 min
FEB 20

#4 Émile P. Torres and I discuss where we agree and disagree on AI safety

Émile P. Torres is a philosopher and historian known for their research on the history and ethical implications of human extinction. They are also an outspoken critic of Effective Altruism, longtermism and the AI safety movement. In this episode, we chatted about why Émile opposes both the 'doomer' and accelerationist factions, and identified some or our agreements and disagreements about AI safety.

1h 48m
JAN 29

#3 Darren McKee on explaining AI risk to the public & navigating the AI safety debate

Darren McKee is an author, speaker and policy advisor who has recently penned a beginner-friendly introduction to AI Safety named Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. We chatted about the best arguments for worrying about AI, responses to common objections, how to navigate the online AI safety space as an non-expert, and more.Buy Darren's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncontrollable-Threat-Artificial-Superintelligence-World-eboo...

52 min
JAN 5

#2 Akash Wasil on transitioning into AI safety & promising proposals for AI governance

Akash is an AI policy researcher working on ways to reduce global security risks from advanced AI. He has worked at the Center for AI Safety, Center for AI Policy, and Control AI. Before getting involved in AI safety, he was a PhD student studying technology & mental health at the University of Pennsylvania. We chatted about why he decided to work on AI safety, the current state of AI policy, advice for people looking to get involved in the field and much more!Follow Akash on Twitter: htt...

1h 11m
12/22/2023

#1 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander argue about moral realism while I smile and nod

In this inaugural episode of Consistently Candid, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander each try to convince me of their position on moral realism, and I settle the issue once and for all. Featuring occasional interjections from the sat-nav in the Uber Aaron was taking at the time.My Twitter: https://twitter.com/littIeramblings Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/absurdlymaxAaron's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronBergman18

1h 8m

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