Third-wave AI safety needs sociopolitical thinking — LessWrong

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 (li…

x Third-wave AI safety needs sociopolitical thinking — LessWrong Community AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 11 % 100 Third-wave AI safety needs sociopolitical thinking by Richard_Ngo 27th Mar 2025 31 min read 23 100 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 beforehand to get the questions right. Transcript and

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