{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":914,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:17:48.974965+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"Sequent: scale and automation for higher confidence in alignment\" by Geoffrey Irving, Alex HT, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Jacob Pfau, Marco Cozzi, Stan van Wingerden","slug":"sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden","published_at":"2026-06-10T21:15:43+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19328066-sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19328066-sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden.mp3","summary":"Alignment is not on track Artificial superintelligence (ASI) may be developed in the next few years. It is unclear whether alignment is on track to be ready on the same timeframe. At a minimum, the empirical programs at AI labs are unlikely to deliver a priori confidence, before training ASI, that things will go well. We are starting a large nonprofit research organization, Sequent, that aims to clear a higher bar: We are aiming at higher confidence via a portfolio of theory and empirics...","meta_description":"Alignment is not on track Artificial superintelligence (ASI) may be developed in the next few years. It is unclear whether alignment is on track to be rea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1389,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/sequent-scale-and-automation-for-higher-confidence-in-alignment-by-geoffrey-irving-alex-ht-jesse-hoogland-daniel-murfet-jacob-pfau-marco-cozzi-stan-van-wingerden.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}