The FLI Podcast

Our namesake podcast series features FLI’s Lucas Perry in conversation with prominent researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and other influential thinkers of all kinds. Find a complete list of episodes below.

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Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021

November 1, 2021/in Featured, FLI Podcasts, FLI podcasts & transcripts /by Lucas Perry

Future of Life Institute · Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021 Find the podcast on: Rohin Shah, Research Scientist on DeepMind’s technical AGI safety team, joins us to discuss: AI value alignment; how an AI Researcher might decide whether to work on AI Safety; and why we don’t know […]

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