AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

This week’s Paper Club is all about AI safety - not the headlines, the science. AI safety has been a research field for decades, with its own conferences, methods, and a track record in systems like aircraft collision avoidance, where the standard is one catastrophic failure per billion flight hours. In this episode we'll hear from Clark Barrett and Mykel Kochenderfer, Stanford professors and co-directors of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. Together with Francois they'll discuss what actually happened in the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident versus what got reported, how automated reasoning can