Even if you, dear listener, don't totally buy the existentialist thing, you know, maybe you don't buy it, it's fine.

But it is the case that the leaders of all the top labs andthropic deep-mind open air have been on the record saying clearly that they do think that there is a realistic possibility that these technologies will kill literally everybody and they're doing it anyways.

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But regardless, we are here to help you become more bankless.

Today on the episode, we're talking AI alignment and AI safety once again.

We're talking to Connor Leahy, the CEO at Conjecture, a mission-driven org trying to make AI go well.

We wanted to do one last episode on the AI alignment and AI safety conversation because we think Connor can really deliver a very compelling and easy articulation as to why AI safety is real and why it needs to be treated as such.

Some main benefits and takeaways that you're going to get from this episode.

First, the intuitive arguments behind the AI safety debate.

The things that you can take to your friends to convince them that AI safety is a real issue.

Second, the two defining categories of ways AI could end humanity.

And third, the major players that are playing in the race towards AGI and why they all seem to be ideologically motivated rather than financially motivated.

Fourth, why the progress of AI power is based on two exponential curves.

And lastly, fifth, why Connor thinks government regulation is the easiest and most effective way of buying us time.

Here on bankless, we've had the AI alignment, AI safety conversation a handful of times with different players from the industry.

Ever since we had that Eleazar episode, which we were hoping would have been an AI crypto conversation, but turns out it was an AI is going to kill us all conversation.

We're bringing on Connor Leahy in June of 2023.

A number of months after we first went down this rabbit hole because the world of AI kind of feels like the world of crypto in 2021.

It is moving so fast.

And so Connor gives us the lay of the land, a snapshot in time of the AI alignment conversation as it stands here in late June of 2023.

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