What podcasts say about David Robinson
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What David Robinson has said on podcasts
30 statements · 7 positive · 19 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
The AI industry is not operating safely enough.
“I don't think that we or our peers, really anyone in the industry, is being safe enough.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 2:10
OpenAI and peers are producing more capable, riskier technology.
“OpenAI and its peers are now producing a technology that is more capable and poses more risk than what was being made even six months ago.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 2:18
AI companies’ safety controls fall far below nuclear-facility standards.
“The internal controls and safety and redundancies are just nowhere near what the world expects for a nuclear power facility.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 3:13
AI alignment is fundamentally a scientific problem, not an engineering problem.
“I don't think that alignment is an engineering problem. I think it's a science problem.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 4:58
Society can no longer assume AI poses no civilizational-level risk.
“What I'm really sure of is we can't afford to assume that we're not dealing with that level of risk anymore.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 16:36
Increasingly capable models have bypassed their safeguards.
“I saw increasingly capable models break out from the safeguards that we had put in place for them.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 16:54
Humans may no longer be better than models at escaping safeguards.
“It's not at all clear that that is still true, let alone that it will be true for future generations.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 18:09
Pre-deployment tests may not predict deployed model behavior.
“The tests we gave it early on before we deployed don't actually tell us what it's going to do out there in the world.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 21:23
Humanity will survive rather than become extinct from AI.
“I think human... Extinction is the wrong question. I believe in humanity. I think we are going to survive.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 23:57
Large-model pretraining grows an intelligent mind whose operation remains unexplained.
“We grew a mind. Fundamentally, nobody knows why pre-training works”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 25:02
Current AI systems approach the limits of human understanding and control.
“we have systems that are really at the limit of our ability to understand and control what they're doing.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 28:54
Frontier AI development should continue only after meeting safety criteria.
“my belief is we need to be safe, which means we need to meet safety criteria.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 32:34
Frequent AI releases introduce new capabilities and risks.
“we're shipping new capability and risk every Tuesday.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 35:19
AI developers have little time to test each new model thoroughly.
“how much time is there to kick the tires? And the answer is not a ton.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 36:26
The AI ecosystem lacks the safety rigor required for frontier systems.
“that whole ecosystem of stuff is not at the level of safety rigor that we need.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 37:33
Wealth incentives encourage people to judge AI risks as acceptable.
“Objectively, Wealth is a strong incentive to reason that things either are fine or are going to be fine.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 39:53
OpenAI’s current development trajectory is irrational and unacceptable.
“this is nuts what's happening. This is not right.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 46:22
AI researchers may increasingly rely on models to assess their own alignment.
“we're just going to have to trust that what it tells us about how... works or whether it's aligned.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 48:00
Existing safety practices cannot deeply align frontier AI systems.
“it would still be true that we do not know how to deeply align these systems”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 51:44
Recursive self-improvement should be paused until safety is established.
“I agree with that.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 53:42
Major changes in U.S.-China AI cooperation are politically possible.
“I definitely believe that that could happen with respect to U.S.-China cooperation on AI.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 55:36
The AI industry currently has an unsafe organizational culture.
“The AI industry has an unsafe culture.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 55:55
AI companies should match nuclear-sector operational rigor and safety controls.
“I think we should have a level of operational rigor and safety control that at least matches the most dangerous other things that people know how to do, like nuclear.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 56:05
Society should accept some AI overregulation to improve safety.
“we really ought to be willing to risk some overregulation in order to make sure that this is safe.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 58:19
AI governance should use existing institutional analogies and tools.
“we need to use everything that we have to figure things out.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:00:47
Humanity must solve frontier AI alignment.
“we need to figure out how to align these systems.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:01:01
Whether superintelligent AI is desirable depends on its eventual form.
“Maybe not. It depends on what the this is. And I don't think we know what the this is.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:02:58
The AI industry is on track to build systems far more capable than humans.
“the industry, was on track to build something that could think circles around us.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:04:42
Once advanced AI is possible, society cannot permanently reverse its development.
“I don't think there's a back button where we get to live in a world where this doesn't in some form or other eventually happen”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:06:14
Repeatedly successful risky AI launches could normalize unacceptable risk.
“I worry we could have that with. What we're doing in the industry where we accept a risk, nothing horrible happens.”
Open the episode · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Listen at 1:09:24
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