In this post I summarize my discoveries from a semester of AI readings and discussions drawn primarily from the 2022 AGI Safety Fundamentals Alignment Curriculum. I am grateful to Professor Anton Korinek for his generous advising in my independent study which lead to this writeup. I am also grateful to my fellow AI reading group discussants at UVA (and especially our discussion leader Ryan Bloom) for their thoughtful contributions to our group which informed my thinking for this post. While this post was primarily written as a means to clarify my own thinking as I learned more about AI Safety, I also hope to use it as a reference point for facilitating... (read 5139 more words →)