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AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, September ’24

gasteigerjoOct 2, 2024, 9:49 AM

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimiOct 2, 2024, 8:33 AM

88 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

The murderous shortcut: a toy model of instrumental convergence

Thomas KwaOct 2, 2024, 6:48 AM

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Switching to a Yamaha P-121 Keyboard

jefftkOct 2, 2024, 2:20 AM

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Foresight Vision Weekend 2024

Allison DuettmannOct 1, 2024, 9:59 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy simulations

FateGrinderOct 1, 2024, 9:05 PM

−5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage

abstractapplicOct 1, 2024, 8:45 PM

172 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #42: Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Governance Summary

Corin Katzke, Corin Katzke, Julius, Alexa Pan, andrewz and Dan H

Oct 1, 2024, 8:35 PM

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Retrieval Augmented Genesis

João Ribeiro MedeirosOct 1, 2024, 8:18 PM

6 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

Likelihood calculation with duobels

Martin GerdesOct 1, 2024, 4:21 PM

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Is Text Watermarking a lost cause?

egor.timatkovOct 1, 2024, 4:20 PM

17 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Information dark matter

Logan KiellerOct 1, 2024, 3:05 PM

33 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Conventional footnotes considered harmful

dkl9Oct 1, 2024, 2:54 PM

25 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Newsom Vetoes SB 1047

ZviOct 1, 2024, 12:20 PM

84 points

6 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will AI and Humanity Go to War?

Simon GoldsteinOct 1, 2024, 6:35 AM

9 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] AMA: International School Student in China

NoviceOct 1, 2024, 6:00 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Farm

Rahul ChandOct 1, 2024, 4:29 AM

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why comparative advantage does not help horses

SherrinfordSep 30, 2024, 10:27 PM

105 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Intelligence explosion: a rational assessment.

p4rziv4lSep 30, 2024, 9:17 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Peak Human Capital

PeterMcCluskeySep 30, 2024, 9:13 PM

71 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Sam Altman’s Business Negging

Julian BradshawSep 30, 2024, 9:06 PM

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

In-Context Learning: An Alignment Survey

alamertonSep 30, 2024, 6:44 PM

8 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Not Just For Therapy Chatbots: The Case For Compassion In AI Moral Alignment Research

kenneth_diaoSep 30, 2024, 6:37 PM

2 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Exploring Decomposability of SAE Features

Vikram_NSep 30, 2024, 6:28 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Base 1: Could it increase intelligence and make it safer?

iwisSep 30, 2024, 4:00 PM

−4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Point of Failure: Semiconductor-Grade Quartz

AnnapurnaSep 30, 2024, 3:57 PM

41 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

on bacteria, on teeth

bhauthSep 30, 2024, 3:56 PM

62 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

SB 1047 gets vetoed

ryan_bSep 30, 2024, 3:49 PM

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Of Birds and Bees

RussellThorSep 30, 2024, 10:52 AM

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

A new process for mapping discussions

Nathan YoungSep 30, 2024, 8:57 AM

29 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

MATS Alumni Impact Analysis

utilistrutil, Juan Gil, yams, LauraVaughan, K Richards and Ryan Kidd

Sep 30, 2024, 2:35 AM

62 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Most capable publicly available agents?

GabeSep 30, 2024, 12:04 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraistSep 29, 2024, 10:07 PM

260 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

Pomodoro Method Randomized Self Experiment

niplavSep 29, 2024, 9:55 PM

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Toy Models of Superposition: Simplified by Hand

Axel SorensenSep 29, 2024, 9:19 PM

9 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs are likely not conscious

research_prime_spaceSep 29, 2024, 8:57 PM

6 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

A Policy Proposal

phdeadSep 29, 2024, 8:45 PM

10 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Do Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) transfer across base and finetuned language models?

Taras Kutsyk, Tommaso Mencattini and Ciprian Florea

Sep 29, 2024, 7:37 PM

26 points

8 comments25 min readLW link

Models of life

Abhishaike MahajanSep 29, 2024, 7:24 PM

8 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

Interpreting the effects of Jailbreak Prompts in LLMs

Harsh RajSep 29, 2024, 7:01 PM

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

New Capabilities, New Risks? - Evaluating Agentic General Assistants using Elements of GAIA & METR Frameworks

Tej LanderSep 29, 2024, 6:58 PM

5 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

Developmental Stages in Multi-Problem Grokking

James SullivanSep 29, 2024, 6:58 PM

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

A Psychoanalytic Explanation of Sam Altman’s Irrational Actions

GabeSep 29, 2024, 6:58 PM

1 point

3 comments3 min readLW link

Building Safer AI from the Ground Up: Steering Model Behavior via Pre-Training Data Curation

Antonio ClarkeSep 29, 2024, 6:48 PM

6 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

Cryonics is free

Mati_RoySep 29, 2024, 5:58 PM

198 points

46 comments2 min readLW link

Runner’s High On Demand: A Story of Luck & Persistence

Shoshannah TekofskySep 29, 2024, 5:15 PM

14 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(shoshanigans.substack.com)

You can, in fact, bamboozle an unaligned AI into sparing your life

David MatolcsiSep 29, 2024, 4:59 PM

113 points

173 comments27 min readLW link

Base LLMs refuse too

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

Sep 29, 2024, 4:04 PM

60 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

My Methodological Turn

adamShimiSep 29, 2024, 3:01 PM

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

Linkpost: Hypocrisy standoff

Chris_LeongSep 29, 2024, 2:27 PM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(x.com)