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Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)
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Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)

Former OpenAI safety researcher Stephen Adler discusses governing increasingly capable AI, including competitive race dynamics, gaps in testing and alignment, chatbot mental-health impacts, economic effects on labor, and international rules and audits before training superintelligent models.

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Stephen Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI. He joins the podcast to discuss how to govern increasingly capable AI systems. The conversation covers competitive races between AI companies, limits of current testing and alignment, mental health harms from chatbots, economic shifts from AI labor, and what international rules and audits might be needed before training superintelligent models. 

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(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:00) Race Dynamics And Safety

(18:03) Chatbots And Mental Health

(30:42) Models Outsmart Safety Tests

(41:01) AI Swarms And Work

(54:21) Human Bottlenecks And Oversight

(01:06:23) Animals And Superintelligence

(01:19:24) Safety Capabilities And Governance

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