Into AI Safety
by Jacob Haimes
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Holding the Human Line w/ Allan Brooks and Etienne Brisson
Holding the Human Line w/ Allan Brooks and Etienne Brisson
About this podcast
The Into AI Safety podcast aims to make it easier for everyone, regardless of background, to get meaningfully involved with the conversations surrounding the rules and regulations which should govern the research, development, deployment, and use of the technologies encompassed by the term "artificial intelligence" or "AI"
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Holding the Human Line w/ Allan Brooks and Etienne Brisson · 1 h 41 min · Episode 34Etienne Brisson and Allan Brooks, founder and program director of The Human Line Project, sat down with me to talk about AI-induced psychological harm, starting with their own…
- Mapping Civilization's Resilience Gaps w/ Dr. Evan Miyazono · 1 h 59 min · Episode 33Dr. Evan Miyazono joins Jacob to talk about his path from quantum networking and Protocol Labs to founding Atlas Computing. They discuss why Atlas moved away from formal methods…
- Pretraining Safety w/ Ethan Roland · 1 h 28 min · Episode 32What if the safest AI models weren't built by adding guardrails after training, but by shaping what gets learned in the first place? Ethan Roland, senior alignment researcher at…
- Reclaiming UBI in the AI Age w/ Joe Williams · 1 h 21 min · Episode 31Today's episode does double duty as an interview and an announcement. Joe Williams, host of the new Kairos.fm show "Beyond the Paycheck: Reclaiming the Case for UBI in the Age of…
- Building Asymmetric Defense w/ Zainab Majid · 1 h 38 min · Episode 30Zainab Majid, co-founder of Asymmetric Security, joins Jacob for a conversation on the intersection between AI Safety and cybersecurity, as well as the future of digital…
- Drawing Red Lines w/ Su Cizem · 1 h 31 min · Episode 29Technology has been moving faster than policy for some time now, and the advent of AI isn't changing that, so what can we do to maintain safety despite uncertainty? Su Cizem has…
- Thinking Through "Digital Minds" w/ Jacy Reese-Anthis · 1 h 11 min · Episode 28Jacy Reese-Anthis, founder of Sentience Institute and researcher at Stanford, began his journey working for animal welfare, but is now finishing up his PhD with research in many…
- Scaling AI Safety Through Mentorship w/ Dr. Ryan Kidd · 1 h 31 min · Episode 27What does it actually take to build a successful AI safety organization? I'm joined by Dr. Ryan Kidd, who has co-led MATS from a small pilot program to one of the field's premier…
- Sobering Up on AI Progress w/ Dr. Sean McGregor · 1 h 13 min · Episode 26Sean McGregor and I discuss about why evaluating AI systems has become so difficult; we cover everything from the breakdown of benchmarking, how incentives shape safety work, and…
- Against 'The Singularity' w/ Dr. David Thorstad · 1 h 9 min · Episode 25Philosopher Dr. David Thorstad tears into one of AI safety's most influential arguments: the singularity hypothesis. We discuss why the idea of recursive self-improvement leading…
- Getting Agentic w/ Alistair Lowe-Norris · 1 h 11 min · Episode 24Alistair Lowe-Norris, Chief Responsible AI Officer at Iridius and co-host of The Agentic Insider podcast, joins to discuss AI compliance standards, the importance of narrowly…
- Growing BlueDot's Impact w/ Li-Lian Ang · 1 h 7 min · Episode 23I'm joined by my good friend, Li-Lian Ang, first hire and product manager at BlueDot Impact. We discuss how BlueDot has evolved from their original course offerings to a new…
- Layoffs to Leadership w/ Andres Sepulveda Morales · 1 h 39 min · Episode 22Andres Sepulveda Morales joins me to discuss his journey from three tech layoffs to founding Red Mage Creative and leading the Fort Collins chapter of the Rocky Mountain AI…
- Getting Into PauseAI w/ Will Petillo · 1 h 48 min · Episode 21Will Petillo, onboarding team lead at PauseAI, joins me to discuss the grassroots movement advocating for a pause on frontier AI model development. We explore PauseAI's strategy…
- Making Your Voice Heard w/ Tristan & Felix de Simone · 1 h 33 min · Episode 20I am joined by Tristan and Felix de Simone to discuss their work on the potential of constituent communication, specifically in the context of AI legislation. These two worked as…
- INTERVIEW: Scaling Democracy w/ (Dr.) Igor Krawczuk · 2 h 58 min · Episode 19The almost Dr. Igor Krawczuk joins me for what is the equivalent of 4 of my previous episodes. We get into all the classics: eugenics, capitalism, philosophical toads... Need I…
- INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park (3) · 1 h 42 min · Episode 18As always, the best things come in 3s: dimensions, musketeers, pyramids, and... 3 installments of my interview with Dr. Peter Park, an AI Existential Safety Post-doctoral Fellow…
- INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park (2) · 1 h 6 min · Episode 17Join me for round 2 with Dr. Peter Park, an AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Max Tegmark at MIT. Dr. Park was a cofounder of StakeOut.AI, a non-profit…
- MINISODE: Restructure Vol. 2 · 13 min · Episode 16UPDATE: Contrary to what I say in this episode, I won't be removing any episodes that are already published from the podcast RSS feed. After getting some advice and reflecting…
- INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park (1) · 54 min · Episode 15Dr. Peter Park is an AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Max Tegmark at MIT. In conjunction with Harry Luk and one other cofounder, he founded…
