Jessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Rahul Sam | Jessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | RSam Pod #23 @RahulSam | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Jessica Taylor is an AI & Cognitive science-influenced philosopher working on a range of areas like social epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind, to name a few. She is currently a researcher at the Median Group on technology forecasting along with the prior mentioned fields. In this episode, we discuss AI alignment, the foundations of cognitive science, linguistics, desire formation, psychoanalysis and Kantian philosophy.

Jessica's links:
unstableontology.com
twitter.com/jessi_cata
lesswrong.com/users/jessica-liu-taylor

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$Jessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | RSam Pod #23 Jessica Taylor is an AI & Cognitive science-influenced philosopher working on a range of areas like social epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind, to name a few. She is currently a researcher at the Median Group on technology forecasting along with the prior mentioned fields. In this episode, we discuss AI alignment, the foundations of cognitive science, linguistics, desire formation, psychoanalysis and Kantian philosophy. 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