Inside the mindset of AI safety workers
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Inside the mindset of AI safety workers

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20269 min
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We've been hearing a lot about the threat of out-of-control of AI in recent weeks; mostly, from the people making the technology. There was the Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who publicly quit and kicked off the whole discussion. Others, including that company’s CEO Dario Amodei, chimed in with alarming appraisals of AI's existential risk. Making sense of all this as an outsider can sometimes feel like decoding an unfamiliar civilization. So, we called Spencer Kaplan, a PhD candidate at Yale, who studies anthropology and researches AI workers.

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