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Back to Search"Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area" by jsteinhardt
As AI systems become more capable, the cognitive security of humans will be increasingly at risk. By cognitive security, I mean the ability of human…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is massively underpriced" by Yudhister Kumar
[1] We will likely have near-superhuman mathematics AI by Q1 2027.
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[2] Qualitatively, AI mathematics capabilities are developing significantly…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Women should be able to open things" by KatjaGrace
m pretty annoyed today, for nominal reasons ranging between ‘petty’ and ‘doesn’t even make sense’. I’m not entirely sure how or if to take oneself s…
2 months ago
"A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon" by Julian Bradshaw
Credit: ClaudePlaysPokemon Elevator Shanty by Kurukkoo
Disclaimer: like some previous posts in this series, this was not primarily written by me, bu…
2 months ago
"A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Initially written for the LW Wiki, but then I realized it was looking more like a post instead.)
In 1895, the physicist Ignaz Robert Schütz, who wo…
2 months ago
"Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think" by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving
Summary
This is a summary of a paper published by the alignment team at UK AISI. Read the full paper here.
AI research agents may help solve ASI ali…
2 months ago
"MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice" by beyarkay
I couldn’t find a recent write-up from a MATS alum about what attending MATS was like, so this is the thing that I wish I had. I attended MATS from …
2 months ago
"The primary sources of near-term cybersecurity risk" by lc
[Some ideas here were developed in conversation with Chris Hacking (real name)]
I have tried and failed to write a longer post many times, so here g…
2 months, 1 week ago
"The Owned Ones" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(An LLM Whisperer placed a strong request that I put this story somewhere not on Twitter, so it could be scraped by robots not owned by Elon Musk. I…
2 months, 1 week ago
"The Iliad Intensive Course Materials" by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
We are releasing the course materials of the Iliad Intensive, a new month-long and full-time AI Alignment course that runs in-person every second mo…
2 months, 1 week ago