Podcast Episodes

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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago

"Announcing Timaeus" by Jesse Hoogland et al.

Timaeus is a new AI safety research organization dedicated to making fundamental breakthroughs in technical AI alignment using deep ideas from mathem…

2 years, 5 months ago

"Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation" by Paul Christiano

I am excited about AI developers implementing responsible scaling policies; I’ve recently been spending time refining this idea and advocating for it…

2 years, 5 months ago

"AI as a science, and three obstacles to alignment strategies" by Nate Soares

AI used to be a science. In the old days (back when AI didn't work very well), people were attempting to develop a working theory of cognition.

Those …

2 years, 5 months ago

"Architects of Our Own Demise: We Should Stop Developing AI" by Roko

Some brief thoughts at a difficult time in the AI risk debate.

Imagine you go back in time to the year 1999 and tell people that in 24 years time, hum…

2 years, 5 months ago