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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

companies that currently feels like it's not doing too well within the current LLM agent paradigm to make a bet on this very alternative method?

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's an interesting way of thinking about it.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's not clear what the candidate company maybe is.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

That makes sense.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

I think a lot of people are wary even of the multilateral government idea because you brought together 10, 20 governments.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

They could potentially coordinate together to oppress the rest of the world to start with.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's possible that one government inside that coalition might end up seizing control later on.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's also possible that governments don't fully represent their people.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

You could have those 20 executives basically take power and then oppress their own people as well.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's not completely obvious that it's better than having a company do the best that they can, because at least they don't have their own military yet.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It's an interesting thought that it seems very difficult for a coalition of countries like Canada, UK, EU, Australia, to compete with the big three companies at their own game.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

But maybe they would have a shot at competing with, coming up with a different paradigm that's superior and making a bet on that and then hoping that one that they think is safer and potentially also more capable, that those companies are not even currently attempting to really push you.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

Yeah, absolutely.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

Let's say that the scientist AI was putting in the same amount of compute and data.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

It was less capable than the models that we have now.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

Could there potentially be a commercial market nonetheless, if it's a lot safer and more reliable, less likely to take crazy actions for high-risk applications?

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

You can imagine in the military, in banking, I don't know.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

I think there's lots of businesses that are somewhat wary to roll out the agents that we have today because they're just...

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

can't be relied upon consistently, not in places where you can cause disastrous actions.

80,000 Hours Podcast
I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

Could you see there being a niche for this kind of model commercially for that kind of reason?