📝 Episode Summary
Russell opens up about his relationship with his father and grief.
🎯 Top Takeaways
- International cooperation on AI governance is as critical as nuclear non-proliferation
- We must solve value alignment before building systems smarter than ourselves
- Superintelligent AI poses existential risk if not designed with human values
- The control problem: how do we ensure AI systems do what we actually want?
- Current AI systems optimize for proxy goals, not human flourishing