Emilia Javorsky joins the podcast to discuss AI-driven power concentration and how we might mitigate it. We also discuss optimism, utopia, and cultural experimentation. 

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Timestamps: 

00:00 Power concentration  

07:43 RFP: Mitigating AI-driven power concentration 

14:15 Open source AI  

26:50 Institutions and incentives 

35:20 Techno-optimism  

43:44 Global monoculture  

53:55 Imagining utopia

Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.