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Further reading

Askell, Amanda (2019) AI safety needs social scientists, EAGlobal, March 4.

Irving, Geoffrey & Amanda Askell (2019) Ai safety needs social scientists, Distill, vol. 4.

Mauricio (2020) Social sciences & existential risk—syllabus, unpublished.

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