Li-Lian Ang

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Future of Life Institute Podcast · Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang) · 2 Apr 2026 podcast

You only need like one person and a very powerful AI system to be able to do this from end to end.

If AI systems are so good at spinning up apps, like designing like web pages, doing the whole code review, what's going to happen to all the software engineers?

At first, you become reduced to sort of like the managers of AI systems.

And then over time, why don't you just automate what the managers do?

Actually will own all of the value that gets generated by business.

it will be like a handful of people.

And there's a version of this world where it's like kind of dystopic.

If I think too hard about it, I get kind of sad because I'm like, oh my God, there's like so many things happening and it's all really horrible and I wish I could solve it.

The whole world feels like it's kind of on fire.

So I tried to focus just on the problem that I have like right in front of me.

Thanks so much for having me, Gus.

So with my work at Blue Dot Impact, I started working with Blue Dot about three years ago.

Back then when I first joined, Blue Dot was a small reading group that was being hosted in Cambridge in the UK where people were coming together to discuss about what is this risk with AI that people keep talking about.

Seems to be like something like LLMs that were being created and this was like

at the beginning of when ChatGPT was just starting to become a thing.

But before that, there were many people who were already writing about the potential impacts of such a technology.

And what this group of people in Cambridge were doing was compiling all of these writings from these different people and working together with Richard Ngou to create a kind of curriculum or a kind of structure for just thinking through what could be the potential impact of AI on society.

And then ChatGPT kind of came out and more and more people started using these AI systems and people started to get a lot more worried and feel like this is a bit more real.

But at the time, it was still a lot more of a fringe concern.

And then this group of people who were like the founders of Blue Dot Impact were then given some money to scale this up and continue to train and bring more people into this.

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