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Feb 2025
1h 17m

AI Risk Management and Governance Strate...

Daniel Faggella
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Today's guest is Duncan Cass-Beggs, Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to explore the pressing challenges and opportunities surrounding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) governance on a global scale. This is a special episode in our AI futures series that ties right into our overlapping series on AGI governance on the Trajectory podcast, where we've had luminaries like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Connor Leahy, and other globally recognized AGI governance thinkers. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you're interested in these topics, make sure to dive deeper into where AI is affecting the bigger picture by visiting emergj.com/tj2.

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