0. What is AI Safety? I’m spending twelve weeks in Berkeley this summer as a MATS Fellow working on “AI Safety”…so, what is that? As more and more money flows into AI research & development, our technical capabilities continue to grow at a rate that’s almost impossible to describe to folks outside the AI community. Meanwhile, a host of issues ranging from International Policy to Cybersecurity to Societal Impacts remain substantially underfunded in comparison. As a result, we