[Linkpost] “Partial Transcript of Recent Senate Hearing Discussing AI X-Risk” by Daniel_Eth

On Tuesday, the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law held a hearing on AI. The hearing involved 3 witnesses – Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthopic), Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner, and the second-most cited AI resarcher in the world), and Stuart Russell (Professor of CS at Berkeley, and co-author of the standard textbook for AI). The hearing wound up focusing a surprising amount on AI X-risk and related topics. I originally planned on jotting down all the quotes related to these topics, thinking it would make for a short post of a handful of quotes, which is something I did for a similar hearing by the same subcommittee 2 months ago. Instead, this hearing focused so much on these topics that I wound up with something that’s better described as a partial transcript.All the quotes below are verbatim. Text that is bolded is simply stuff I thought readers might find particularly interesting. If you want to listen to the hearing, you can do so here (it’s around 2.5 hours). You might also find it interesting to compare this post to the one from 2 months ago, to see how the discourse has progressed.Opening remarksSenator Blumenthal:What I have [...] --- First published: July 27th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/67zFQT4GeJdgvdFuk/partial-transcript-of-recent-senate-hearing-discussing-ai-x Linkpost URL:https://medium.com/@daniel_eth/ai-x-risk-at-senate-hearing-7104f371ca0b --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.