AI Safety from First Principles

Risks from Artificial General Intelligence have been a top concern of the EA movement since EA's beginning. Recently, AI safety has gotten mass public attention with the launch of GPT-4 and a group of AI leaders releasing a joint public statement:
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war"

At this meetup, we'll have a discussion about "AGI safety from first principles" by Richard Ngo, available here:
https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/mzgtmmTKKn5MuCzFJ

Please read the article before attending (~15,000 words, ~1 hr)

This is a good piece if AI safety is new to you, or you want to refresh your understanding. It answers some of the most frequent first reactions to hearing about AI concerns.