| Part 1 | The Age of AGI

Chapter 1: The Center of Debate: AGI
1.1 The Beginning of AGI
1.2 Frontier Models, AGI, ASI, and ACI
1.3 AGI is coming
1.4 People who say that AGI will be difficult to achieve for the time being
1.5 Views from AI Experts and Entrepreneurs
1.6 How does AGI emerge?
1.7 Classifying AGI by level
1.8 Did GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?

Chapter 2: Potential Risks of AGI
2.1 Warnings about AGI in Literature
2.2 Warnings from Leading AI Researchers
2.3 The debate over the threat of human extinction due to AI
2.4 Doomsday theorists, effective altruists, and effective accelerationists
2.5 Criticism of AI doomsday theories

Concluding Part 1

| Part 2 | Alignment: Research and Policy

Chapter 3: What is an Alignment Problem?
3.1 Alignment
3.2 AI using cheats
3.3 ChatGPT and the Trolley Problem

Chapter 4: Key Directions of Alignment Research
4.1 Alignment in the Data, Learning, and Evaluation Domains
4.2 Fundamental Tasks of Safety and Alignment Research

Chapter 5 Alignment Research Specialist Group
5.1 Alignment Research Center and Model Evaluation and Threat Research
5.2 Data Source Initiative
5.3 Alignment research groups of major universities and regions

Chapter 6: Major Companies' Approaches to Alignment Issues
6.1 OpenAI's Approach
6.2 Anthropic's Alignment Technology and Policies
6.3 Google DeepMind
6.4 Group Alignment
6.5 Research to Increase Interpretability

Concluding Part 2

| Part 3 | Policy Response

Chapter 7: Major National Policies and International Cooperation for AI Safety and Control
7.1 G7 Hiroshima AI Process
7.2 European Union AI Law and Related Issues
7.3 The UK Bletchley Declaration and the AI ​​Safety Research Institute
7.4 Biden's Executive Orders and Follow-up Measures
7.5 Movements in several countries, including France, China, and Canada
7.6 Frontier Model Forum and AI Alliance

Concluding Part 3

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