Growing BlueDot's Impact w/ Li-Lian Ang

Growing BlueDot's Impact w/ Li-Lian Ang

From Into AI Safety by Jacob Haimes

September 15, 2025 · 1h 8m · Episode 23

About this episode

Jacob Haimes interviews Li-Lian Ang about the evolution of BlueDot Impact and its strategies in AI safety.

I'm joined by my good friend, Li-Lian Ang, first hire and product manager at BlueDot Impact. We discuss how BlueDot has evolved from their original course offerings to a new "defense-in-depth" approach, which focuses on three core threat models: reduced oversight in high risk scenarios (e.g. accelerated warfare), catastrophic terrorism (e.g. rogue actors with bioweapons), and the concentration of wealth and power (e.g. supercharged surveillance states). On top of that, we cover how BlueDot's strategies account for and reduce the negative impacts of common issues in AI safety, including exclusionary tendencies, elitism, and echo chambers. 2025.09.15: Learn more about how to make design effective interventions to make AI go well and potentially even get funded for it on BlueDot Impact's AGI Strategy course ! BlueDot is also hiring , so if you think you’d be a good fit, I definitely recommend applying; I had a great experience when I contracted as a course facilitator. If you do end up applying, let them know you found out about the opportunity from the podcast! Follow Li-Lian on LinkedIn , and look at more of her work on her blog ! As part of my effort to make this whole podcasting…

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Haimes

Guest: Li-Lian Ang

Topics covered

  • AI safety
  • BlueDot Impact
  • defense-in-depth
  • threat models
  • interventions
  • sustainability

Keywords

  • BlueDot
  • AI safety
  • threat models
  • interventions
  • sustainability
  • defense-in-depth
  • accelerated warfare

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Organizations: BlueDot Impact

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