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After learning about AI safety only last year, William Baird drastically altered his life. He left a farm he managed in New Zealand and moved to the UK. He's since met with MPs and helped organise protests against AI, including one outside the Bletchley Park AI summit.

In this episode, I speak to William Baird, the UK Director of PauseAI. PauseAI are a community of volunteers and local communities coordinated by a non-profit organisation that aims to mitigate the risks of AI (including the risk of human extinction).

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🕒 TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Coming up

0:15 - Dropping everything to try pause AI

5:26 - AI risks I'm most concerned about

8:23 - How human extinction could occur

11:54 9 - Why are people building AGI (artificial general intelligence)

14:59 - Who are PauseAI

17:09 - Psychological toll of this work

23:03 - Most likely outcome of AI

25:18 - Family & friends reaction towards new life

28:42 - Introspecting about why I care about AI risks

30:25 - Objections to PauseAI

36:16 - Protesting on the street / comparison to Just Stop Oil

37:41 - Most surprising thing you've learnt/encountered

39:06 - Message to anyone watching

40:03 - How I feel when I use a new AI tool

41:55 - What is a good life?

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/pauseai/

Website - https://pauseai.info/

Wired Article - https://www.wired.com/story/protesters-pause-ai-split-stop/

TIME Article - https://time.com/6977680/ai-protests-international/

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