Discuss views on AI safety and its impacts

You are interviewing for an AI-focused company. The interviewer spends most of the behavioral interview asking about your views on AI safety and its broader impact.

Explain how you would answer questions such as:

1. What does AI safety mean to you?
   • What kinds of risks—from current systems to more capable future systems—are you most concerned about?
   • How do you distinguish between near-term, concrete risks and longer-term or more speculative risks?
2. How do you think AI will affect human work?
   • Which kinds of jobs or tasks are most exposed?
   • In what ways can AI augment vs replace human workers?
   • What responsibilities do AI practitioners have toward people whose work may be disrupted?
3. How do you think AI will affect the broader economy and society?
   • Potential benefits (e.g., productivity, new industries, scientific progress).
   • Potential downsides (e.g., inequality, concentration of power, misinformation, security risks).
4. How would your views on AI safety shape your day-to-day work as an engineer or researcher at such a company?
   • How would you build and ship features differently because of these concerns?
   • What kinds of processes, tools, or safeguards would you advocate for?

Structure your answer as you would in an interview: be thoughtful, concrete, and balanced, and connect high-level principles to specific practices you would follow in your work.