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Highlights: #176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
33 minutes Posted Jan 15, 2024 at 8:24 pm.
Intro
Why it's hard to imagine a much better game board
What OpenAI has been doing right
Arms racing and China
OpenAI's single-minded focus on AGI
Transparency about capabilities
Why no statement from the OpenAI board
The upside of AI merits taking some risk
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #176 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong