Conjecture Co-Founder & ControlAI Advisor, Gabe Alfour | AI SAFETY SERIES #4

WELCOME TO THE AI SAFETY SERIES, FEATURING FILMED INTERVIEWS WITH INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN THE AI SAFETY FIELD, ABOUT THEIR LIVES & WORK.In this episode, I speak to Gabe Alfour, a co-founder and the CTO of Conjecture, and an advisor to ControlAI. Conjecture is an AI Safety organisation, based in London. ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence. The Human Podcast explores the lives and ideas of inspiring individuals. Subscribe for new interviews every week.☕️ BUY ME A COFFEEhttps://buymeacoffee.com/thehumanpodcastIt's just me (Joe) working on this so any support is hugely helpful and greatly appreciated! ❤️🕒 TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Intro0:15 - What are Conjecture & ControlAI?1:22 - Why are you starting to speak out?2:45 - Working in crypto4:23 - GPT-3 caused me to pivot into AI safety7:30 - What is alignment?9:45 - What is AI alignment?12:57 - Story of co-founding Conjecture14:52 - What has Conjecture worked on?18:13 - Why run Conjecture as a for-profit?20:02 - Publishing 'The Compendium'21:25 - How could AI cause human extinction?25:21 - What do ControlAI do?28:09 - Transitioning to policy work from technical30:04 - Dissecting the 'AI safety community' into 4 groups32:59 - Personal impact of belief in AI causing extinction35:01 - Biggest lesson learnt: people are too cynical39:06 - Believing great change is possible42:00 - CLOSING QU: What is a good life?👤 GABE ALFOUR:X - https://x.com/gabe_ccConjecture - https://www.conjecture.dev/aboutControlAI - https://controlai.com/'The Compendium' - https://www.thecompendium.ai/'A Narrow Path' - https://www.narrowpath.co/📱 SOCIAL:𝕏 - https://twitter.com/heyhumanpodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/heythehumanpodcast/Email - [email protected]🎵 MUSIC:Music by penguinmusic - Better Day from Pixabay