“Third-wave AI safety needs sociopolitical thinking” by Richard_Ngo

At EA Global Boston last year I gave a talk on how we're in the third wave of EA/AI safety, and how we should approach that. This post contains a (lightly-edited) transcript and slides. Note that in the talk I mention a set of bounties I'll put up for answers to various questions—I still plan to do that, but am taking some more time to get the questions right.

Hey everyone. Thanks for coming. You're probably looking at this slide and thinking, how to change a changing world. That's a weird title for a talk. Probably it's a kind of weird talk. And the answer is, yes, it is a kind of weird talk.

So what's up with this talk? Firstly, I am trying to do something a little unusual here. It's quite abstract. It's quite disagreeable as a talk. I'm trying to poke at the things that maybe [...]

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Outline:

(03:09) Three waves of EA and AI safety

(18:24) Sociopolitical thinking and AI

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First published:
March 27th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6YxdpGjfHyrZb7F2G/third-wave-ai-safety-needs-sociopolitical-thinking

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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