Should AI Agents Obey Human Laws? (with Cullen O'Keefe)
Cullen O'Keefe is Director of Research at the Institute for Law & AI. In this episode, we discuss 'Law-Following AI: designing AI agents to obey human laws'.
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[Article] AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
This is a narration of ‘AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power’ by Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden, and Rose Hadshar; published 16th April 2025.
Narration by Perrin Walker (@perrinjwalker).
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How Can We Prevent AI-Enabled Coups? (with Tom Davidson)
Tom Davidson is a Senior Research Fellow at Forethought. In this episode, he discusses concrete mitigations against AI-enabled coups.
Listen to Tom's appearance on the 80,000 Hours podcast here, and read the original paper here.
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Should We Aim for Flourishing Over Mere Survival? (with Will MacAskill)
Will MacAskill discusses his new research series ‘Better Futures’.
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AI Rights for Human Safety (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein)
Peter Salib is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston, and Simon Goldstein is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. We discuss their paper ‘AI Rights for Human Safety’.
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