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Back to Search"The mosquito bucket of doom works" by dominicq
The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and all…
2 months, 1 week ago
"Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A" by MKodama, Thomas Larsen
This criticism of AI 2040: Plan A by Séb Krier unfortunately seriously mischaracterizes our proposal. It also mostly contains flat assertions, not r…
2 months, 1 week ago
"The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog" by jenn
content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art
Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically b…
2 months, 1 week ago
"The current bottleneck is political will, not research" by Charbel-Raphaël
Abstract:
We already know enough to act. I wish we were in a world where research was the bottleneck, but the main constraint on AI safety is no lon…
2 months, 1 week ago
"Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040" by Richard_Ngo
Some context for this post: I’ve been working part-time as a consultant for the AI Futures Project over the last year. Most of the work I’ve done fo…
2 months, 1 week ago
[Linkpost] "AI 2040: Plan A" by Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead, ryan_greenblatt
This is a link post. For the past year, we at the AI Futures Project have been sinking most of our time into our next big scenario. Now it's done!
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2 months, 1 week ago
"A Review of Anthropic’s Global Workspace Paper" by Neel Nanda
The below is a public review Anthropic asked me to write for their new global workspace paper. I recommend at least skimming their paper first.
TLDR…
2 months, 1 week ago
"(Don’t fear) the strangelet" by djbinder
In a previous post, I explain why the universe is probably not stable, but nevertheless unlikely to be intentionally destroyable even in the limit o…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"We need 3rd party Training-Run Assessments" by Alex Meinke
Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety.
By a Training-Run Assessment, or TRA, I mean …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"A global workspace in language models" by wesg
[This is the blog post for our new paper Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models
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2 months, 2 weeks ago