AI Safety Newslet­ter #7: Dis­in­for­ma­tion, Gover­nance Recom­men­da­tions for AI labs, and Se­nate Hear­ings on AI

23 May 2023 21:47 UTC
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(newsletter.safe.ai)

The Po­lar­ity Prob­lem [Draft]

23 May 2023 21:05 UTC
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Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-23

jasoncrawford23 May 2023 20:15 UTC
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Yoshua Ben­gio: How Rogue AIs may Arise

harfe23 May 2023 18:28 UTC
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‘Fun­da­men­tal’ vs ‘ap­plied’ mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity research

Lee Sharkey23 May 2023 18:26 UTC
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Co­er­cion is an adap­ta­tion to scarcity; trust is an adap­ta­tion to abundance

Richard_Ngo23 May 2023 18:14 UTC
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[Question] Is “brit­tle al­ign­ment” good enough?

the8thbit23 May 2023 17:35 UTC
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Will Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Kill Us?

James_Miller23 May 2023 16:27 UTC
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Phone Num­ber Jingle

jefftk23 May 2023 15:20 UTC
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GPT4 is ca­pa­ble of writ­ing de­cent long-form sci­ence fic­tion (with the right prompts)

RomanS23 May 2023 13:41 UTC
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[Question] Do hu­mans still provide value in cor­re­spon­dence chess?

Jonathan Paulson23 May 2023 12:15 UTC
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[Linkpost] The AGI Show podcast

Soroush Pour23 May 2023 9:52 UTC
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Data and “to­kens” a 30 year old hu­man “trains” on

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis23 May 2023 5:34 UTC
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How I learned to stop wor­ry­ing and love skill trees

junk heap homotopy23 May 2023 4:08 UTC
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T-Shirt Size Distribution

jefftk23 May 2023 2:40 UTC
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AI self-im­prove­ment is possible

bhauth23 May 2023 2:32 UTC
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Wor­ry­ing less about acausal extortion

Raemon23 May 2023 2:08 UTC
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Self-lead­er­ship and self-love dis­solve anger and trauma

Richard_Ngo22 May 2023 22:30 UTC
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A Man­i­fold mar­ket no­tice: Binance

Scrooge Mcduck22 May 2023 22:24 UTC
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I don’t want to talk about AI

KirstenH22 May 2023 21:23 UTC
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(ealifestyles.substack.com)

Ac­ti­va­tion ad­di­tions in a small resi­d­ual network

Garrett Baker22 May 2023 20:28 UTC
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[Linkpost] “Gover­nance of su­per­in­tel­li­gence” by OpenAI

Daniel_Eth22 May 2023 20:15 UTC
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Two Pie­ces of Ad­vice About How to Re­mem­ber Things

omnizoid22 May 2023 18:10 UTC
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Why I Believe LLMs Do Not Have Hu­man-like Emotions

OneManyNone22 May 2023 15:46 UTC
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AI Safety in China: Part 2

Lao Mein22 May 2023 14:50 UTC
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Con­jec­ture in­ter­nal sur­vey: AGI timelines and prob­a­bil­ity of hu­man ex­tinc­tion from ad­vanced AI

Maris Sala22 May 2023 14:31 UTC
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(www.conjecture.dev)

Papers, Please #1: Var­i­ous Papers on Em­ploy­ment, Wages and Productivity

Zvi22 May 2023 12:00 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In Defense of «The Army of Jakoths»

MikkW22 May 2023 11:59 UTC
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Speed of in­for­ma­tion in­put is a bot­tle­neck for rationality

MikkW22 May 2023 10:24 UTC
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Distil­la­tion of Neu­rotech and Align­ment Work­shop Jan­uary 2023

22 May 2023 7:17 UTC
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The Treach­er­ous Turn is finished! (AI-takeover-themed table­top RPG)

Daniel Kokotajlo22 May 2023 5:49 UTC
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The Stan­ley Parable: Mak­ing philos­o­phy fun

Nathan112322 May 2023 2:15 UTC
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Sea Monsters

Adam Zerner22 May 2023 0:58 UTC
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The Army of Jakoths (a parable)

MikkW21 May 2023 22:48 UTC
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A&I (Rihanna ‘S&M’ par­ody lyrics)

nahoj21 May 2023 22:34 UTC
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Four Bat­tle­grounds: Power in the Age of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence (Book re­view)

PeterMcCluskey21 May 2023 21:19 UTC
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(bayesianinvestor.com)

Gen­der Vec­tors in ROME’s La­tent Space

Xodarap21 May 2023 18:46 UTC
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Weight by Impact

Vaniver21 May 2023 14:37 UTC
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[out­dated] My cur­rent the­ory of change to miti­gate ex­is­ten­tial risk by mis­al­igned ASI

mesaoptimizer21 May 2023 13:46 UTC
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(mesaoptimizer.com)

Bab­ble on grow­ing trust

qbolec21 May 2023 13:19 UTC
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Ele­va­tor Positioning

jefftk21 May 2023 11:30 UTC
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Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture Choice for Re­sist­ing Prompt In­jec­tion and Jail-Break­ing Attacks

RogerDearnaley21 May 2023 8:29 UTC
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Jeff Clune ad­ver­tis­ing a post­doc on twit­ter...and ask­ing where he should tar­get his posts

Joyee Chen21 May 2023 1:02 UTC
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Run­ning Sound for Yourself

jefftk20 May 2023 22:10 UTC
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Job Open­ing: SWE to help build sig­na­ture vet­ting sys­tem for AI-re­lated petitions

20 May 2023 19:02 UTC
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My Kind of Pragmatism

Nora Belrose20 May 2023 18:58 UTC
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Colors Ap­pear To Have Al­most-Univer­sal Sym­bolic Associations

Thoth Hermes20 May 2023 18:40 UTC
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Twiblings, four-par­ent ba­bies and other re­pro­duc­tive technology

GeneSmith20 May 2023 17:11 UTC
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P-zom­bies, Com­pres­sion and the Si­mu­la­tion Hypothesis

RussellThor20 May 2023 11:36 UTC
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The pos­si­ble shared Craft of de­liber­ate Lex­i­co­ge­n­e­sis

TsviBT20 May 2023 5:56 UTC
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