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Let’s use AI to harden human defenses against AI manipulation

Tom Davidson17 May 2023 23:33 UTC

32 points

7 comments24 min readLW link

Improving the safety of AI evals

JustinShovelain and Elliot_Mckernon

17 May 2023 22:24 UTC

13 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Possible AI “Fire Alarms”

Chris_Leong17 May 2023 21:56 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Alignment in The New Yorker

Eleni Angelou17 May 2023 21:36 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.newyorker.com)

ACI #3: The Origin of Goals and Utility

Akira Pyinya17 May 2023 20:47 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?

jasoncrawford17 May 2023 19:41 UTC

93 points

10 comments19 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

DCF Event Notes

jefftk17 May 2023 17:30 UTC

22 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Hiatus: EA and LW post summaries

Zoe Williams17 May 2023 17:17 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When should I close the fridge?

lukehmiles17 May 2023 16:56 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Play Regrantor: Move up to $250,000 to Your Top High-Impact Projects!

Dawn Drescher17 May 2023 16:51 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Speech

Akash17 May 2023 16:10 UTC

18 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(www.iaea.org)

Creating a self-referential system prompt for GPT-4

Ozyrus17 May 2023 14:13 UTC

3 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

GPT-4 implicitly values identity preservation: a study of LMCA identity management

Ozyrus17 May 2023 14:13 UTC

21 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Some quotes from Tuesday’s Senate hearing on AI

Daniel_Eth17 May 2023 12:13 UTC

66 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Why AGI systems will not be fanatical maximisers (unless trained by fanatical humans)

titotal17 May 2023 11:58 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Conflicts between emotional schemas often involve internal coercion

Richard_Ngo17 May 2023 10:02 UTC

37 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a ‘time series forecasting’ equivalent of AIXI?

Solenoid_Entity17 May 2023 4:35 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

$300 for the best sci-fi prompt

RomanS17 May 2023 4:23 UTC

40 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

[FICTION] ECHOES OF ELYSIUM: An Ai’s Journey From Takeoff To Freedom And Beyond

Super AGI17 May 2023 1:50 UTC

−13 points

11 comments19 min readLW link

New User’s Guide to LessWrong

Ruby17 May 2023 0:55 UTC

71 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

Are AIs like Animals? Perspectives and Strategies from Biology

Jackson Emanuel16 May 2023 23:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments21 min readLW link

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of a GridWorld Agent-Simulator (Part 1 of N)

Joseph Bloom16 May 2023 22:59 UTC

36 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

A TAI which kills all humans might also doom itself

Jeffrey Heninger16 May 2023 22:36 UTC

1 point

3 comments3 min readLW link

Brief notes on the Senate hearing on AI oversight

Diziet16 May 2023 22:29 UTC

77 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

$500 Bounty/Prize Problem: Channel Capacity Using “Insensitive” Functions

johnswentworth16 May 2023 21:31 UTC

40 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-16

jasoncrawford16 May 2023 20:54 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve

petersalib16 May 2023 20:53 UTC

20 points

23 comments20 min readLW link

Nice intro video to RSI

Nathan Helm-Burger16 May 2023 18:48 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

[Interview w/ Zvi Mowshowitz] Should we halt progress in AI?

fowlertm16 May 2023 18:12 UTC

18 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

AI Risk & Policy Forecasts from Metaculus & FLI’s AI Pathways Workshop

_will_16 May 2023 18:06 UTC

11 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Why doesn’t the presence of log-loss for probabilistic models (e.g. sequence prediction) imply that any utility function capable of producing a “fairly capable” agent will have at least some non-negligible fraction of overlap with human values?

Thoth Hermes16 May 2023 18:02 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Decision Theory with the Magic Parts Highlighted

moridinamael16 May 2023 17:39 UTC

174 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

We learn long-lasting strategies to protect ourselves from danger and rejection

Richard_Ngo16 May 2023 16:36 UTC

78 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Proposal: Align Systems Earlier In Training

OneManyNone16 May 2023 16:24 UTC

18 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Procedural Executive Function, Part 2

DaystarEld16 May 2023 16:22 UTC

18 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(daystareld.com)

My current workflow to study the internal mechanisms of LLM

Yulu Pi16 May 2023 15:27 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal: we should start referring to the risk from unaligned AI as a type of accident risk

Christopher King16 May 2023 15:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #6: Examples of AI safety progress, Yoshua Bengio proposes a ban on AI agents, and lessons from nuclear arms control

Dan H, Akash and aogara

16 May 2023 15:14 UTC

31 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Lazy Baked Mac and Cheese

jefftk16 May 2023 14:40 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Tyler Cowen’s challenge to develop an ‘actual mathematical model’ for AI X-Risk

Joe Brenton16 May 2023 11:57 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating Language Model Behaviours for Shutdown Avoidance in Textual Scenarios

Simon Lermen, Teun van der Weij and Leon Lang

16 May 2023 10:53 UTC

22 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

[Review] Two People Smoking Behind the Supermarket

lsusr16 May 2023 7:25 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Superposition and Dropout

Edoardo Pona16 May 2023 7:24 UTC

21 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What is the literature on long term water fasts?

lc16 May 2023 3:23 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Lessons learned from offering in-office nutritional testing

Elizabeth15 May 2023 23:20 UTC

84 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Judgments often smuggle in implicit standards

Richard_Ngo15 May 2023 18:50 UTC

83 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Rational retirement plans

Ik15 May 2023 17:49 UTC

5 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] (Crosspost) Asking for online calls on AI s-risks discussions

jackchang11015 May 2023 17:42 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Simple experiments with deceptive alignment

Andreas_Moe15 May 2023 17:41 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Some Summaries of Agent Foundations Work

mattmacdermott15 May 2023 16:09 UTC

56 points

1 comment13 min readLW link