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Back to Search“Pacing the Frontier: A Framework & Research Agenda” by Charles Dillon 🔸, Raymond D, technicalities
Below is the executive summary from our new paper at pacing.tech. The full paper is available on the site and as a PDF. The full author list is Raym…
6 days, 15 hours ago
“You can’t join the secret inner circle of cool effective altruists” by ozymandias
I, and a lot of other people I know, seem to believe something like this:
Somewhere out there, there are the cool, high-impact effective altruists w…
6 days, 19 hours ago
“YCombinator companies still aren’t growing faster due to AI” by Ben_West🔸
A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment a…
1 week, 2 days ago
“How we might actually pace the frontier: A proposal for AI companies to do public pacing exercises.” by Dewi
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This is a proposal for AI companies to conduct public “pacing exercises”, such as halting all pre-training and RL for 2 to 3 days. Each exerci…1 week, 2 days ago
“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: One Year Closer” by So8res
In celebration of still being alive and fighting, we are giving away 1,000 Amazon e-books of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”. Feel free to send…
1 week, 2 days ago
“The Crisis Task Force” by brentonmayer
tl;dr: when a crisis with major implications for your organisation unfolds, consider setting up a crisis task force. It should have its own org char…
1 week, 3 days ago
“Results from the Population Ethics Quiz” by MichaelDickens
Two weeks ago, I released a population ethics quiz. 582 people took it. Here's what I learned from reading the responses.
Cross-posted from my webs…
1 week, 4 days ago
“It’s time to vote” by Michelle_Hutchinson
It's been a pretty crazy week in terms of the world waking up to the risks from AI. I’m hoping that the future is a bit safer this week than it was …
1 week, 4 days ago
“Building a Stronger Vegan Movement Through Evidence-Based Communication” by Chris Popa
Note: This post is written in a personal capacity. The views expressed here are my own and do not represent those of any organisation I’m affiliated…
1 week, 4 days ago
“Dario Amodei: “We Must Pace The Frontier”” by Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️⚧️
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Along with my co-founders and employees, I have grappled with this duality of risk and benefit since the beginning of Anthropic. Not building …
1 week, 5 days ago