Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The other side of the tidal wave" by Katja Grace
I guess there’s maybe a 10-20% chance of AI causing human extinction in the coming decades, but I feel more distressed about it than even that sugges…
2 years, 3 months ago
"The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful." by scasper
Recently, I have been learning about industry norms, legal discovery proceedings, and incentive structures related to companies building risky system…
2 years, 3 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning" by Zac Hatfield-Dodds
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This is a linkpost for https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-…
2 years, 3 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Deception Chess: Game #1" by Zane et al.
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This…
2 years, 3 months ago
Comp Sci in 2027 (Short story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)
This is a linkpost for https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741
Comp sci in 2017:
Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ign…
2 years, 3 months ago
"My thoughts on the social response to AI risk" by Matthew Barnett
A common theme implicit in many AI risk stories has been that broader society will either fail to anticipate the risks of AI until it is too late, or…
2 years, 3 months ago
"Propaganda or Science: A Look at Open Source AI and Bioterrorism Risk" by 1a3orn
I examined all the biorisk-relevant citations from a policy paper arguing that we should ban powerful open source LLMs.
None of them provide good evid…
2 years, 3 months ago
"President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" by Tristan Williams
This is a linkpost for https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-s…
2 years, 3 months ago
"Thoughts on the AI Safety Summit company policy requests and responses" by So8res
Over the next two days, the UK government is hosting an AI Safety Summit focused on “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI”. They reque…
2 years, 3 months ago
[Human Voice] "Book Review: Going Infinite" by Zvi
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Previously: Sadly, FTX
I doubted whether it would be a good use of time to …
2 years, 3 months ago