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A Field Guide to AI Safety—Asterisk

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AI safety is starting to go mainstream, but the researchers who’ve been immersed in it for over a decade still have strong disagreements.

A Field Guide to AI Safety—Asterisk AI safety is starting to go mainstream, but the researchers who’ve been immersed in it for over a decade still have strong disagreements. It’s hard to make progress in a field without a consensus about what it studies or what would constitute a solution to its most important open questions. Not unrelatedly, there hasn’t been much progress in the field of ensuring that extremely powerful AI systems don’t kill us all, even as there’s been growing attention to the possibility that they might. It’d be a mistake to characterize the risk of human extinction from a

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