Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers" by jefftk
Six years ago, as covid-19 was rapidly spreading through the US, mysister was working as a medical resident. One day she was handed anN95 and told t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Anthropic: “Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War”" by Matrice Jacobine
I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversari…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Are there lessons from high-reliability engineering for AGI safety?" by Steven Byrnes
This post is partly a belated response to Joshua Achiam, currently OpenAI's Head of Mission Alignment:
If we adopt safety best practices that are co…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Open sourcing a browser extension that tells you when people are wrong on the internet" by lc
Example of OpenErrata nitting the Sequences I just published OpenErrata on GitHub, a browser extension that investigates the posts you read using you…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
"The persona selection model" by Sam Marks
TL;DR
We describe the persona selection model (PSM): the idea that LLMs learn to simulate diverse characters during pre-training, and post-training …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
"Responsible Scaling Policy v3" by HoldenKarnofsky
All views are my own, not Anthropic's. This post assumes Anthropic's announcement of RSP v3.0 as background.
Today, Anthropic released its Responsible…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
"Did Claude 3 Opus align itself via gradient hacking?" by Fiora Starlight
Claude 3 Opus is unusually aligned because it's a friendly gradient hacker. It's definitely way more aligned than any explicit optimization targets …
5 months ago
"The Spectre haunting the “AI Safety” Community" by Gabriel Alfour
I’m the originator behind ControlAI's Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence.
My diagnosis is…
5 months ago
"Why we should expect ruthless sociopath ASI" by Steven Byrnes
The conversation begins
(Fictional) Optimist: So you expect future artificial superintelligence (ASI) “by default”, i.e. in the absence of yet-to-be…
5 months ago
"You’re an AI Expert – Not an Influencer" by Max Winga
Your hot takes are killing your credibility.
Prior to my last year at ControlAI, I was a physicist working on technical AI safety research. Like man…
5 months ago