Summary: Episode 39 of the NonProphets podcast, in which Atief, Robert, and Scott announce that IARPA's new Hybrid Forecasting Competition is looking for volunteer forecasters (00:19), interrupt their own discussion to explain that some of the podcast audio was lost due to what they believe was an attack by a rogue AI (06:28), discuss to what extent we can trust the output of AI forecasters (08:09), talk about the "value-alignment problem" in AI design (21:39), and return to the question of how much we can trust AI before the podcast is mysteriously cut off (26:46). As always, you can reach us at nonprophetspod.wordpress.com, or nonprophetspod@gmail.com. (recorded 8/16/2017)
