An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security

We have written a paper on our approach to technical AGI safety and security. This post is a copy of the extended abstract, which summarizes the paper. AI, and particularly AGI, will be a transformative technology. As with any transformative technology, AGI will provide significant benefits while posing significant risks. This includes risks of severe harm: incidents consequential enough to significantly harm humanity. This paper outlines our approach to building AGI that avoids severe harm.¹ Since AGI safety research is advancing quickly, our approach should be taken as exploratory.