Paul Christiano's three-night Hinton Lectures on governing transformative AI earn rave reviews
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-11-12
Paul Christiano (Alignment Research Center) delivered three nightly Hinton Lectures in Toronto on "Governing Transformative AI". Viewers praise the talks as excellent, pitched at a non-technical level and full of policy recommendations — ideal intro material for AI newcomers. The series also features Kevin Roose on AI history and Garrison Lovely on AI ambitions, with videos available on YouTube.
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