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A giant glowing brain suspended above rows of servers in a vast data centre, wrapped in streams of data.

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Who will control the most powerful mind on Earth?

A superintelligence would be the most valuable and dangerous thing ever built. Whether it ends up in the hands of a few companies, a few governments, or no one at all may be the defining political question of the century.

  • Governance
  • Safety

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The alignment problem, in plain terms

Making a capable system do what we actually want, rather than what we literally said, turns out to be one of the hardest problems in computer science. Here is why, without the jargon.

  • Alignment
  • Safety