Post 47: How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety — Neel Nanda
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How I formed my own views on the complex topic of ‘will AI kill us all, and should I work on stopping this’, and traps I fell into
Post 47: How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety Feb 27 Written By Neel Nanda Disclaimer : I work as a researcher at Anthropic, but this post entirely represents my own views, rather than the views of my own employer Introduction I’ve spent the past two years getting into the field of AI Safety. One important message I heard as I was entering the field was that I needed to “form an inside view about AI Safety”, that I needed to form my own beliefs and think for myself rather than just working on stuff because people smarter than me cared about it. And this was incredibly stressful! I think t
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