Building safe physical AI: Open questions, risks, and a call for collaboration

We thank Finn Metz, Anna Magpie, Jan Wehner, Lee Sharkey, Chris Pang, Sigmund Hennum Høeg, and Marta Krzeminska for their feedback on early versions of this post. All views and errors in this post are our own. Executive summary Physical AI — intelligent robots, drones, and other systems directly acting on the physical world — could remove the limits placed by the availability and cost of human labor on what humanity can build. However, the capabilities that make this possible also create distinc...