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Stuart Russell is probably the most prominent example.

I think Dan Hendryks is doing good work in this area as well, as well as a bunch of people on the AI alignment team at DeepMind.

But yea, it'd be great if a lot more ML researchers/engineers engaged with the AI x-risk arguments and alignment research.

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New Canada AI Safety & Governance community

by Wyatt Tessari L'Allié

Aug 29 20221 min read 2

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Hello everyone,

Wyatt here, the new AIS/G field-builder for Canada. In June I received an EA LTFF fund grant to "connect, expand and enable the AGI Safety & Governance community in Canada", with the goal of making Canada a net positive force on the world stage for transformational AI.

We now have a slack server, events calendar, some proposed projects, and a monthly newsletter (coming out this Wednesday), so if you are based in Canada and interested in these topics, sign up here.

Looking forward to the year ahead.

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Phil TannyAug 29 2022-9

As best I can tell so far (willing to keep learning) the entire AI professional community doesn't seem to grasp that, as of yet, there's not really a compelling case that their well intended efforts will be meaningful.

Frustrating, but fascinating.

Is there any intellectual within the AI realm who is willing and able to sail against this group think?

If yes, is there any chance we could get them in here so I don't have to keep typing this?

Evan R. MurphyAug 29 20222

Stuart Russell is probably the most prominent example.

I think Dan Hendryks is doing good work in this area as well, as well as a bunch of people on the AI alignment team at DeepMind.

But yea, it'd be great if a lot more ML researchers/engineers engaged with the AI x-risk arguments and alignment research.

*New* Canada AI Safety & Governance community

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