Cullen O'Keefe's guest appearances

Cullen O'Keefe

Future of Life Institute Podcast

EA Talks

Stuart Armstrong

Jeffrey Ding

William MacAskill

Jade Leung

Joshua Greene

Brian Tomasik

Allan Dafoe

Helen Toner

Peter Singer

David Pearce

Robin Hanson

Jaan Tallinn

Rob Wiblin

Baobao Zhang

Rohin Shah

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Cullen discusses promising options for law students and lawyers to do good from an effective altruism perspective. His talk draws on experience from the AI policy field; the founding of the Legal Priorities Project; and informal discussions with other lawyers on how to do the most good.Cullen O'Keefe is a lawyer and policy researcher interested in improving the governance of artificial intelligence using the principles of Effective Altruism. In May 2019, he received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. he currently works as Associate Counsel for Policy &amp; Governance at OpenAI.Cullen is also a Research Affiliate with the Centre for the Governance of AI at the Future of Humanity Institute; Founding Advisor and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project; and a VP at the O’Keefe Family Foundation.His  research focuses on the law, policy, and governance of advanced artificial intelligence. To learn more, visit his personal website, cullenokeefe.com.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube. 

Cullen discusses promising options for law students and lawyers to do good from an effective altruism perspective. His talk draws on experience from the AI policy field; the founding of the Legal Priorities Project; and informal discussions with other lawyers on how to do the most good. Cullen O'Keefe is a lawyer and policy researcher interested in improving the governance of artificial intelligence using the principles of Effective Altruism. In May 2019, he received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. he currently works as Associate Counsel for Policy &amp; Governance at <a href="https://openai.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenAI</a>.Cullen is also a Research Affiliate with the <a href="https://www.governance.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Centre for the Governance of AI</a> at the Future of Humanity Institute; Founding Advisor and Research Affiliate at the <a href="https://www.legalpriorities.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legal Priorities Project</a>; and a VP at the <a href="https://okeefe.foundation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">O’Keefe Family Foundation</a>.His  research focuses on the law, policy, and governance of advanced artificial intelligence. To learn more, visit his personal website, <a href="https://www.cullenokeefe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cullenokeefe.com</a>.<a href="https://www.effectivealtruism.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Effective Altruism</a> is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. <a href="https://www.eaglobal.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA Global</a> conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/EffectiveAltruismVideos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.

Doing the most good with a law degree | Cullen O'Keefe | EA Student Summit 2020

As with the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, the intelligence revolution currently underway will unlock new degrees and kinds of abundance. Powerful forms of AI will likely generate never-before-seen levels of wealth, raising critical questions about its beneficiaries. Will this newfound wealth be used to provide for the common good, or will it become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few who wield AI technologies? Cullen O'Keefe joins us on this episode of the FLI Podcast for a conversation about the Windfall Clause, a mechanism that attempts to ensure the abundance and wealth created by transformative AI benefits humanity globally.Topics discussed in this episode include:-What the Windfall Clause is and how it might function-The need for such a mechanism given AGI generated economic windfall-Problems the Windfall Clause would help to remedy -The mechanism for distributing windfall profit and the function for defining such profit-The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause -Objections and alternatives to the Windfall ClauseYou can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/02/28/distributing-the-benefits-of-ai-via-the-windfall-clause-with-cullen-okeefe/Timestamps: 0:00 Intro2:13 What is the Windfall Clause? 4:51 Why do we need a Windfall Clause? 06:01 When we might reach windfall profit and what that profit looks like08:01 Motivations for the Windfall Clause and its ability to help with job loss11:51 How the Windfall Clause improves allocation of economic windfall 16:22 The Windfall Clause assisting in a smooth transition to advanced AI systems18:45 The Windfall Clause as assisting with general norm setting20:26 The Windfall Clause as serving AI firms by generating goodwill, improving employee relations, and reducing political risk23:02 The mechanism for distributing windfall profit and desiderata for guiding it’s formation 25:03 The windfall function and desiderata for guiding it’s formation 26:56 How the Windfall Clause is different from being a new taxation scheme30:20 Developing the mechanism for distributing the windfall 32:56 The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause in the United States40:57 The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause in China and the Cayman Islands43:28 Historical precedents for the Windfall Clause44:45 Objections to the Windfall Clause57:54 Alternatives to the Windfall Clause01:02:51 Final thoughtsThis podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

As with the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, the intelligence revolution currently underway will unlock new degrees and kinds of abundance. Powerful forms of AI will likely generate never-before-seen levels of wealth, raising critical questions about its beneficiaries. Will this newfound wealth be used to provide for the common good, or will it become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few who wield AI technologies? Cullen O'Keefe joins us on this episode of the FLI Podcast for a conversation about the Windfall Clause, a mechanism that attempts to ensure the abundance and wealth created by transformative AI benefits humanity globally. Topics discussed in this episode include: -What the Windfall Clause is and how it might function -The need for such a mechanism given AGI generated economic windfall -Problems the Windfall Clause would help to remedy  -The mechanism for distributing windfall profit and the function for defining such profit -The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause  -Objections and alternatives to the Windfall Clause You can find the page for this podcast here: <a href="https://futureoflife.org/2020/02/28/distributing-the-benefits-of-ai-via-the-windfall-clause-with-cullen-okeefe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://futureoflife.org/2020/02/28/distributing-the-benefits-of-ai-via-the-windfall-clause-with-cullen-okeefe/</a> Timestamps:  0:00 Intro 2:13 What is the Windfall Clause?  4:51 Why do we need a Windfall Clause?  06:01 When we might reach windfall profit and what that profit looks like 08:01 Motivations for the Windfall Clause and its ability to help with job loss 11:51 How the Windfall Clause improves allocation of economic windfall  16:22 The Windfall Clause assisting in a smooth transition to advanced AI systems 18:45 The Windfall Clause as assisting with general norm setting 20:26 The Windfall Clause as serving AI firms by generating goodwill, improving employee relations, and reducing political risk 23:02 The mechanism for distributing windfall profit and desiderata for guiding it’s formation  25:03 The windfall function and desiderata for guiding it’s formation  26:56 How the Windfall Clause is different from being a new taxation scheme 30:20 Developing the mechanism for distributing the windfall  32:56 The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause in the United States 40:57 The legal permissibility of the Windfall Clause in China and the Cayman Islands 43:28 Historical precedents for the Windfall Clause 44:45 Objections to the Windfall Clause 57:54 Alternatives to the Windfall Clause 01:02:51 Final thoughts This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable consider supporting it directly by donating at <a href="http://futureoflife.org/donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">futureoflife.org/donate</a>. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe