Thanks for writing this Nishit! 

The discussion around this prompted me to take additional precautions such as to ensure my masks are well fitted, even if it's a N99 mask if it's poorly sealed then it's functionality is compromised.

So I'm looking to get a mask that has adjustable straps and nose seal so that I can adjust it to suit my face shape.

Another issue I'd noticed is that wearing masks makes it hard to communicate with others, the lack of facial expressions and muffled voices makes me rather suffer the pollution for a few days.

I used to live in Delhi (for a year) and wore a N95 mask religiously because of the pollution and I remember feeling helpless, afraid to even work out because I would breathe more air.

Air Quality is a cause area that I think deserves more prioritization. It is such an intimate part of our lived experience, we breathe it in daily and it has a compounding effect over time.

It really breaks my heart to consider all our friends who are suffering chronic effects due to their environment being this polluted

One way to communicate our preferences can be to let that inform our decision, the location where we live, we work, hold our conferences are all choices we make. If enough of us decide we will not tolerate pollution in our cities and accept the tradeoffs that entails it can be a powerful signal of how strongly we demand clean air.

One potential benefit of having it in Delhi is that maybe we can expect more attendees from the policy side of things, it might help build bridges for AI governance if we get to have conversations with other organizations planning the pre summit events (before the AI summit planned in India in Feb). I'm sure others who have more experience can chip in about the other benefits.

Overall I think this is an important discussion to have.

I think this is a very important point,

> if aligning AI with human values has historically resulted in catastrophic outcomes, how can we ensure that AI alignment will not amplify the very harms we aim to prevent?

We have been putting our money, time, and trust behind even more on our current human values being the way out even as empirically we see how our actions have been power-seeking, we have been responsible for the largest extinction event killing all our cousin species and we are doubling down on technology, more extraction of value from nature. 

It is an S risk to imagine AI systems instilled with these "human" values 

Now that Jan Leike has left, superalignment team has been disbanded, OAI has really lost most of the safety focused researchers.