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How I got my non-tech friends to learn about AI safety
According to the excerpt, Samuel Verboomen, a machine learning engineer who left a job to move into AI safety, describes an open-source two-hour interactive presentation on AI safety for non-technical audiences, tried in one session with six friends. The post says many people do not realise how powerful AI already is, and announces a new non-profit.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Samuel Verboomen offers a free two-hour presentation to explain AI risks to people outside tech, based on one session with six friends.
The record
- Questions
- How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life? · How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?
- People
- Samuel Verboomen (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 19, 2026, via
lesswrong(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- LessWrong, “How I got my non-tech friends to learn about AI safety”, October 19, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/lesswrong-2026-10-19-non-tech-friends-ai-safety
Our notesLight lane: from the triage excerpt only. Personal experience from a single session, as the author says.