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The episode discusses how the main constraint on AI safety is political will rather than a lack of research, emphasizing the need for better policy enforcement and awareness.

Abstract: We already know enough to act. I wish we were in a world where research was the bottleneck, but the main constraint on AI safety is no longer a shortage of clever policy ideas: best practices already exist and are not being applied or enforced, and a serious international (or even just national) regulatory regime would probably cut most of the risk.They are not applied because awareness is low. The people who narrate and enforce AI policy mostly do not believe in the pr...

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Guest: Charbel-Raphaël

Topics covered

• AI safety
• political will
• regulation
• policy
• research
• awareness

Keywords

• AI safety
• political will
• regulatory regime
• policy ideas
• best practices
• awareness

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