Kelsey Piper is a staff writer at The Argument, a publication dedicated to having productive arguments among people who disagree about important political topics. I tried my best to carry the spirit of The Argument with me when speaking with Kelsey in this episode, and I had a blast the entire time.

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about her take on the AI extinction debate, the risk that AI will make it easier to build destructive bioweapons, and how her views on effective altruism have shaped her understanding of artificial intelligence.

Show Notes

"Forecasting Existential Risks: Evidence from a Long-Run Forecasting Tournament" (See Pg. 63 for bioweapon risk, and Pg. 270 for AI extinction risk)

Kelsey Piper's note on AI progress vs. diffusion

"How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence" from The Pew Research Center

Séb Krier's tweet on AGI development