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0:00 Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability
1:57 Is *a* singularity near?
9:28 Nora: AI may take my job within two years
14:32 The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration
23:50 Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process
41:20 AI “thinking” vs human thinking
46:57 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nora Belrose (EleutherAI). Recorded February 18, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 To open source or not to open source AI?
12:51 Two roads to AI authoritarianism
19:03 Why did Google’s Gemini say it seeks world domination?
28:27 Does “chain-of-thought” need humans in the loop?
30:15 Silicon Valley China hawks vs global AI safety
37:22 “Latent space” for laypeople
49:14 Does AI have a trolley problem?
