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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

I guess it's easy to say that you are going to do a whole lot of different things, but I guess the most difficult decisions in developing a plan like this is figuring out what stuff might some people like you to do that you are committing to not do because you just don't think it's a high enough priority.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

What sort of stuff does this plan suggest that you are not going to prioritize?

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Okay, so some people would really like you to plan ahead a lot.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

They would like you to feel like you have a grasp on all of the important considerations that are going to come up all the way through to artificial superintelligence until, I guess, the point where you could feel like you've safely handed everything over.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

And you're saying, we are not going to do that.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Not at all.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

We're going to think a lot about the next model that we're training.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

We're going to think a bit about the model after that.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

And kind of beyond that, we're going to hope that the future will take care of itself or we in the future will take care of things as they come up.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

That's the point you're making.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Yeah, this paper is pretty candid for kind of a company position paper.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

It very clearly says AGM might be here by 2030.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

We don't know when, but 2030 is totally plausible.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

We have to be ready with a plan for how to handle that.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

That's very dangerous or potentially could be very dangerous.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

We have to have a plan that we can deploy incredibly quickly to try to make that safer.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

And then it goes through the kinds of things that you're intending to do.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Yeah, I guess I would encourage people to...

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

If they work in this area to go and take a look at it.

80,000 Hours Podcast
What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Are there any non-obvious mitigations in there?