Host Jeremie Harris talks AI catastrophic risk skepticism with Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, a world-leading AI research lab that's developed many well-known projects, including the popular AllenNLP library, and Semantic Scholar.
0:00 Intro
1:40 The case for worrying about AI safety and alignment
9:35 When to prioritize super intelligence
14:25 AI alignment and capabilities
25:30 Timeline of AI efforts
34:05 Canary in a coal mine analogy
37:25 Approaching intelligence from different directions
40:55 Next steps
49:05 The unknown unknowns
53:05 Wrap-up
