Russell Howard: Comedy Saved My Life!
Comedian, TV presenter
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Russell discusses how comedy helped him process difficult emotions.
🎯 Top Takeaways
- AI alignment is the most important technical problem of our time
- Current AI systems optimize for proxy goals, not human flourishing
- The control problem: how do we ensure AI systems do what we actually want?
- The race to AGI could be humanity's last invention—or its worst mistake
- Beneficial AI requires encoding human preferences, which are complex and contextual