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Angelica Chowdhury

Sydney-based data scientist (Senior Modeller at Lumi) and independent AI safety researcher affiliated with the MINT Lab, CARMA, and MIT's AI Risk Initiative.

Sep 29, 2026

0:50
So maybe we can start there by you explaining to us what is AI safety all about?
0:56
AI safety is an umbrella term.
0:58
That's how I see it of what we have been knowing as AI ethics, responsible AI, or even like, you know, just using AI to make it work for the humans in a better way.
1:11
Like it looks at our interests rather than doing something quite wacky and being very biased.
1:18
Like in a very simplified term, that's really where the field began.
1:23
But I think since generative AI has come about, a lot of people have been looking into it from the point of view of, okay, are these large language models or generative AI, are they aligned with our values or are they acting in a way how we act or what we expect? from each other.
1:43
So like that's been one of the biggest topics in that space, like make AIs go well in a way so that we don't constantly have to tune it for it to work for us because it is pretty uncontrollable at the moment.
2:58
us through your pathway to where you are today?

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