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Ryan Kidd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
958 total appearances

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Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Technical governance, which is plenty of stuff, like compliance protocols, eval standards, how to actually enforce these kind of things.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

If you have an off switch, how would you even make such a thing be viable in a governance framework?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And in compute infrastructure, which is stuff like tracking where chips are going, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Because if you're going to have international compliance with various types of treaties, you need to know where your chips are and what they're running as well, or at least have some zero knowledge proofs that guarantee they're not doing terribly dangerous things.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And of course, physical security for if you're going to prevent, if you build super intelligence or AGI or something, presumably you don't want everyone to have access to it and arbitrarily modify it, give it weird goals, because that would be bad.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Some people say that's good.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I say that's

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We don't let everyone have nukes.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Why would we let everyone have super intelligence?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

It seems kind of ridiculous.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So you gotta have physical security to prevent that from happening, to prevent diffusion.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So yeah, those are the main tracks now.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We're super excited.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I think we have somewhere over like 50, 60 research mentors lined up for our summer program, which applications are open right now.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And it's gonna be the largest program yet, 120 fellows across our Berkeley and London offices.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Anything else I should say?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Yeah, current program has something like 27% evals, 26% interp, 18% oversight control, 12% agency, 10% governance, and about 9% security.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I wish I had a figure I could show.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I do have a figure, but it might be hard to show in the podcast format.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

But as you can see, like,