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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance


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Episode: #63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
Release date: 2023-05-13

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Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI.

In this episode we talk about:

  • An overview of AI governance space, and disentangling concrete research questions that Ben would like to see more work on
  • Seeing how existing arguments for the risks from transformative AI have held up and Ben’s personal motivations for working on global risks from AI
  • GovAI’s own work and opportunities for listeners to get involved
  • Further reading and a transcript is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/garfinkel

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