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Clark Barrett

Position
Professor (Research)
Organisation
Stanford University
Biography

Why do you care about AI Existential Safety?

I am one of the directors of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. Existential risk is one of the aspects of AI safety we care about at the center.

Please give one or more examples of research interests relevant to AI existential safety:

As AI systems become more complicated and more sophisticated, it is important to develop techniques for understanding, decomposing, and explaining their complexity and behavior. These techniques will, I believe, be crucial also for mitigating existential risk.

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