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The speaker describes Meter’s takeoff assessment as evaluating algorithmic progress and current AI capabilities to estimate the distance to extreme capabilities that may exceed human ability to manage.
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“And then also takeoff assessment,”
“which is going in, getting information about the speed of algorithmic progress and the current capabilities of AI systems to try to get a sense for how far away are we from very extreme capabilities that we wouldn't be able to handle. So those are kind of the three arms of things that Meter has been.”Play from 2:04:41Report a misattribution
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