Chris Olah

I think philosophy is actually a really good subject if you are kind of fascinated with everything. Because there's a philosophy of everything. So if you do philosophy of mathematics for a while, and then you decide that you're actually really interested in chemistry, you can do philosophy of chemistry for a while. You can move into ethics or philosophy of politics.

I think philosophy is actually a really good subject if you are kind of fascinated with everything. Because there's a philosophy of everything. So if you do philosophy of mathematics for a while, and then you decide that you're actually really interested in chemistry, you can do philosophy of chemistry for a while. You can move into ethics or philosophy of politics.

I think philosophy is actually a really good subject if you are kind of fascinated with everything. Because there's a philosophy of everything. So if you do philosophy of mathematics for a while, and then you decide that you're actually really interested in chemistry, you can do philosophy of chemistry for a while. You can move into ethics or philosophy of politics.

I think towards the end, I was really interested in ethics primarily. So that was what my PhD was on. It was on a kind of technical area of ethics, which was... Ethics, where worlds contain infinitely many people, strangely. A little bit less practical on the end of ethics.

I think towards the end, I was really interested in ethics primarily. So that was what my PhD was on. It was on a kind of technical area of ethics, which was... Ethics, where worlds contain infinitely many people, strangely. A little bit less practical on the end of ethics.

I think towards the end, I was really interested in ethics primarily. So that was what my PhD was on. It was on a kind of technical area of ethics, which was... Ethics, where worlds contain infinitely many people, strangely. A little bit less practical on the end of ethics.

And then I think that one of the tricky things with doing a PhD in ethics is that you're thinking a lot about the world, how it could be better, problems. And you're doing a PhD in philosophy. And I think when I was doing my PhD, I was kind of like... This is really interesting. It's probably one of the most fascinating questions I've ever encountered in philosophy. And I love it.

And then I think that one of the tricky things with doing a PhD in ethics is that you're thinking a lot about the world, how it could be better, problems. And you're doing a PhD in philosophy. And I think when I was doing my PhD, I was kind of like... This is really interesting. It's probably one of the most fascinating questions I've ever encountered in philosophy. And I love it.

And then I think that one of the tricky things with doing a PhD in ethics is that you're thinking a lot about the world, how it could be better, problems. And you're doing a PhD in philosophy. And I think when I was doing my PhD, I was kind of like... This is really interesting. It's probably one of the most fascinating questions I've ever encountered in philosophy. And I love it.

But I would rather see if I can have an impact on the world and see if I can do good things. And I think that was around the time that AI was still probably not as widely recognized as it is now. That was around 2017, 2018. I had been following progress and it seemed like it was becoming kind of a big deal.

But I would rather see if I can have an impact on the world and see if I can do good things. And I think that was around the time that AI was still probably not as widely recognized as it is now. That was around 2017, 2018. I had been following progress and it seemed like it was becoming kind of a big deal.

But I would rather see if I can have an impact on the world and see if I can do good things. And I think that was around the time that AI was still probably not as widely recognized as it is now. That was around 2017, 2018. I had been following progress and it seemed like it was becoming kind of a big deal.

And I was basically just happy to get involved and see if I could help because I was like, well, if you try and do something impactful, if you don't succeed, you tried to do the impactful thing and you can go be a scholar and feel like you tried. And if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. And so then I went into AI policy at that point.

And I was basically just happy to get involved and see if I could help because I was like, well, if you try and do something impactful, if you don't succeed, you tried to do the impactful thing and you can go be a scholar and feel like you tried. And if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. And so then I went into AI policy at that point.

And I was basically just happy to get involved and see if I could help because I was like, well, if you try and do something impactful, if you don't succeed, you tried to do the impactful thing and you can go be a scholar and feel like you tried. And if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. And so then I went into AI policy at that point.

At the time, this was more thinking about sort of the political impact and the ramifications of AI. And then I slowly moved into sort of AI evaluation, how we evaluate models, how they compare with like human outputs, whether people can tell like the difference between AI and human outputs. And then when I joined Anthropic, I was more interested in doing sort of technical alignment work.

At the time, this was more thinking about sort of the political impact and the ramifications of AI. And then I slowly moved into sort of AI evaluation, how we evaluate models, how they compare with like human outputs, whether people can tell like the difference between AI and human outputs. And then when I joined Anthropic, I was more interested in doing sort of technical alignment work.

At the time, this was more thinking about sort of the political impact and the ramifications of AI. And then I slowly moved into sort of AI evaluation, how we evaluate models, how they compare with like human outputs, whether people can tell like the difference between AI and human outputs. And then when I joined Anthropic, I was more interested in doing sort of technical alignment work.

And again, just seeing if I could do it and then being like, if I can't, then, you know, that's fine. I tried. sort of the way I lead life, I think.

And again, just seeing if I could do it and then being like, if I can't, then, you know, that's fine. I tried. sort of the way I lead life, I think.