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Ryan Kidd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
958 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

There's some amazing researchers there.

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

We also have some harder to categorize research.

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

Yoshua Bengio's whole team at Law Zero, plenty of Yoshua Bengio himself and plenty of others are there.

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

And we have some AI sentience research as well, digital minds.

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

So Patrick Butlin at LAOS AI, Kyle Fish at Anthropic.

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

Yeah, it's a very exciting program.

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

I actually can't necessarily say.

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

Well, OK, I can speculate.

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

But I'll say this.

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

We have had actually about the same proportion of governance researchers, give or take a few percent, for the last two years.

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

It hasn't changed by fraction.

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

So we are quite on track for continuing the same trend, potentially.

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

Part of the reason is we are based in some of the, particularly in Berkeley, SF Bay Area, this is a big technical hub.

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

There are other programs that have had more deep governance focus, like we have GovAI, their classic fellowship.

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

We have IAPS.

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

We have, of course, RANDcast, this large program run out of RAND.

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

and plenty more besides.

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

But yeah, of course, Horizon Fellowship for US Policy Careers.

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

And these have also kind of existed for longer than we were around.

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

So at a time when we were basically the biggest fish in town, which we are still in many ways in terms of funding and I think in terms of procedures as well for technical AI safety, we're the biggest and best program.