This Webinar Series explores the economic dimensions of rapid AI advances and their transformative impacts on our economies and societies.

This session examines the economic trade-offs in AI safety investment, featuring two leading experts:

Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley) presents "The Imperative of AI Safety: A Technical Perspective", exploring the fundamental challenges in ensuring that advanced AI systems not only create economic value but remain aligned with human values.

Chad Jones (Stanford GSB) presents a paper on "How much should we spend to reduce A.I.'s existential risk?" providing a rigorous economic framework for evaluating trade-offs between innovation speed, safety investment, and existential risk.

Their presentations are followed by an interdisciplinary discussion on how to value and integrate technical safety versus economic benefits in the development of ever more powerful AI systems.