Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAISN #19: US-China Competition on AI Chips, Measuring Language Agent Developments, Economic Analysis of Language Model Propaganda, and White House AI Cyber Challenge.
US-China Competition on AI Chips
Modern AI systems are trained on advanced computer chips which are designed and fabricated by only a handful of compa…
2 years, 9 months ago
AISN #18: Challenges of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Microsoft’s Security Breach, and Conceptual Research on AI Safety.
Challenges of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
If you’ve used ChatGPT, you might’ve noticed the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” buttons next t…
2 years, 9 months ago
AISN #17: Automatically Circumventing LLM Guardrails, the Frontier Model Forum, and Senate Hearing on AI Oversight.
Automatically Circumventing LLM Guardrails
Large language models (LLMs) can generate hazardous information, such as step-by-step instructions on how t…
2 years, 10 months ago
AISN #16: White House Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading AI Labs, and Lessons from Oppenheimer .
White House Unveils Voluntary Commitments to AI Safety from Leading AI Labs
Last Friday, the White House announced a series of voluntary commitments f…
2 years, 10 months ago
AISN #15: China and the US take action to regulate AI, results from a tournament forecasting AI risk, updates on xAI’s plan, and Meta releases its open-source and commercially available Llama 2.
Both China and the US take action to regulate AI
Last week, regulators in both China and the US took aim at generative AI services. These actions show…
2 years, 10 months ago
AISN #14: OpenAI’s ‘Superalignment’ team, Musk’s xAI launches, and developments in military AI use .
OpenAI announces a ‘superalignment’ team
On July 5th, OpenAI announced the ‘Superalignment’ team: a new research team given the goal of aligning super…
2 years, 10 months ago
AISN #13: An interdisciplinary perspective on AI proxy failures, new competitors to ChatGPT, and prompting language models to misbehave.
Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy Failures
In this story, we discuss a recent paper on why proxy goals fail. First, we introduce proxy gaming,…
2 years, 10 months ago
AISN #12: Policy Proposals from NTIA’s Request for Comment, and Reconsidering Instrumental Convergence.
Policy Proposals from NTIA’s Request for Comment
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration publicly requested comments on the mat…
2 years, 11 months ago
AISN #11: An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks.
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
Global leaders are concerned that artificial intelligence could pose catastrophic risks. 42% of CEOs polled at th…
2 years, 11 months ago
AISN #10: How AI could enable bioterrorism, and policymakers continue to focus on AI .
How AI could enable bioterrorism
Only a hundred years ago, no person could have single handedly destroyed humanity. Nuclear weapons changed this situa…
2 years, 11 months ago