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#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
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When should governments slow the race toward superintelligence? According to Geoffrey Irving , the careful answer is sometime in the past. The useful answer is now. Geoffrey — formerly a safety researcher at OpenAI and Google DeepMind and chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute — expects full-blown superintelligence in roughly two to three years. *** Want to work with Geoffrey to help align superintelligence? Resolution is hiring! https://80k.info/work-at-resolution *** The leading AI companies all have broadly similar plans for keeping superintelligence under control: Train models to have good character Use increasingly capable AIs to supervise other AIs Monitor them closely for…