Mar 05 2025 36 mins
This week on No Priors, Sarah is joined by Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center of AI Safety. Dan serves as an advisor to xAI and Scale AI. He is a longtime AI researcher, publisher of interesting AI evals such as "Humanity's Last Exam," and co-author of a new paper on National Security "Superintelligence Strategy" along with Scale founder-CEO Alex Wang and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. They explore AI safety, geopolitical implications, the potential weaponization of AI, along with policy recommendations.
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Show Notes:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Dan’s path to focusing on AI Safety
1:25 Safety efforts in large labs
3:12 Distinguishing alignment and safety
4:48 AI’s impact on national security
9:59 How might AI be weaponized?
14:43 Immigration policies for AI talent
17:50 Mutually assured AI malfunction
22:54 Policy suggestions for current administration
25:34 Compute security
30:37 Current state of evals