Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and potential problems with this approach to AI safety. You can read more about Lennart's work here: https://heim.xyz/about/

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:37 AI risk

03:33 Why focus on compute?

11:27 Monitoring compute

20:30 Restricting compute

26:54 Subsidising compute

34:00 Compute as a bottleneck

38:41 US and China

42:14 Unintended consequences

46:50 Will AI be like nuclear energy?

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