Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“The Industrial Explosion” by rosehadshar, Tom Davidson
Summary
To quickly transform the world, it's not enough for AI to become super smart (the "intelligence explosion").
AI will also have to turbochar…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Race and Gender Bias As An Example of Unfaithful Chain of Thought in the Wild” by Adam Karvonen, Sam Marks
Summary: We found that LLMs exhibit significant race and gender bias in realistic hiring scenarios, but their chain-of-thought reasoning shows zero e…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“The best simple argument for Pausing AI?” by Gary Marcus
Not saying we should pause AI, but consider the following argument:
Alignment without the capacity to follow rules is hopeless. You can’t possibly …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Foom & Doom 2: Technical alignment is hard” by Steven Byrnes
2.1 Summary & Table of contents
This is the second of a two-post series on foom (previous post) and doom (this post).The last post talked about how …
8 months ago
“Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs.” by Cleo Nardo
Acknowledgments: The core scheme here was suggested by Prof. Gabriel Weil.
There has been growing interest in the deal-making agenda: humans make de…
8 months ago
“X explains Z% of the variance in Y” by Leon Lang
Audio note: this article contains 218 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in t…
8 months ago
“A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger” by So8res
I think more people should say what they actually believe about AI dangers, loudly and often. Even if you work in AI policy.
I’ve been beating this …
8 months ago
“My pitch for the AI Village” by Daniel Kokotajlo
I think the AI Village should be funded much more than it currently is; I’d wildly guess that the AI safety ecosystem should be funding it to the tun…
8 months ago
“Foom & Doom 1: ‘Brain in a box in a basement’” by Steven Byrnes
1.1 Series summary and Table of Contents
This is a two-post series on AI “foom” (this post) and “doom” (next post).A decade or two ago, it was prett…
8 months ago
“Futarchy’s fundamental flaw” by dynomight
Say you’re Robyn Denholm, chair of Tesla's board. And say you’re thinking about firing Elon Musk. One way to make up your mind would be to have peop…
8 months, 1 week ago