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AI Safety: A Short FAQ for Mathematicians

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A short introduction to AI safety research and ways for mathematicians to get involved.

Xiaoyu He This is a follow-up to my essay about existential risk, in which I made the case that AI presents a substantial existential risk to humanity. The primary goals of this post are to suggest that: AI safety research is deep, broad, and mathematically interesting. It is possible to transition smoothly to alignment work as an academic mathematician without necessarily leaving your career. 1AI safety is just one problem. Even if it’s the biggest problem in the world, is it really productive to have many people work on it? AI safety is not one problem in the same way that the Riemann…

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