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Cold Takes Audio

Cold Takes Audio


Cold Takes Audio

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Length:
50 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Amateur read-throughs of blog posts on Cold-Takes.com, for those who prefer listening to reading. Available on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts by searching Cold Takes Audio.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 50 episodes

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What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century

Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.https://www.cold-ta...

18 minutes
Feb 20, 2023

Jobs that can help with the most important century

People are far better at their jobs than at anything else. Here are the best ways to he...

30 minutes
Feb 10, 2023

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

For people who want to help improve our prospects for navigating transformative AI, and...

20 minutes
Jan 25, 2023

How we could stumble into AI catastrophe

Hypothetical stories where the world tries, but fails, to avert a global disaster.https...

28 minutes
Jan 13, 2023

Transformative AI issues (not just misalignment): an overview

An overview of key potential factors (not just alignment risk) for whether things go we...

25 minutes
Jan 05, 2023

Racing Through a Minefield: the AI Deployment Problem

Push AI forward too fast, and catastrophe could occur. Too slow, and someone else less ...

21 minutes
Dec 22, 2022

High-level hopes for AI aligment

A few ways we might get very powerful AI systems to be safe.https://www.cold-takes.com/...

23 minutes
Dec 15, 2022

AI safety seems hard to measure

Four analogies for why "We don't see any misbehavior by this AI" isn't enough.https://w...

22 minutes
Dec 08, 2022

Why Would AI "Aim" To Defeat Humanity?

Today's AI development methods risk training AIs to be deceptive, manipulative and ambi...

46 minutes
Nov 29, 2022

The Track Record of Futurists Seems ... Fine

We scored mid-20th-century sci-fi writers on nonfiction predictions. They weren't great...

21 minutes
Jun 30, 2022