Thank you. I trust your evaluation overall. You and your links have really helped clarify the situation to me. (I am not sarcastic!)
I am aware of some of the things Anthropic does. Agree they are ahead here. But I also know there are very varying opinions inside of Anthropic. I also suspect most of the leadership don’t actually really worry much. I listened this week to the recent, full 5+h podcast with Lex Friedman and Anthropic reps. and that reinforced that notion in me.
I’ve now read the first half of the transcript of that podcast (the one with Dario), and that was very interesting, thanks again! I still need to read what Amanda Askell and Chris Olah say in the second half. Some of their views might be a moving target, a year is a lot in this field, but it should still be quite informative.
The reason I am writing is that I’ve noticed a non-profit org, Eleos AI Research, specifically dedicated to investigations of AI sentience and wellbeing, https://eleosai.org/, led by Robert Long, https://robertlong.online/. There are even having a conference in 10 days or so (although it’s sort of a mess organizationally, no registration link, but just a contact e-mail, https://eleosai.org/conference/). Their Nov 2024 preprint might also be of interest, “Taking AI Welfare Seriously”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986.
I would expect varying opinions inside Anthropic. It’s a big place, plenty of independent thinkers…
Thanks for attracting my attention to that Lex Friedman podcast with Anthropic people (#452, Nov 11, 2024). I’ll make sure to try to understand nuances of what they are saying (Dario, Amanda Askell, and Chris Olah are a very interesting group of people).
Thank you. I trust your evaluation overall. You and your links have really helped clarify the situation to me. (I am not sarcastic!)
I am aware of some of the things Anthropic does. Agree they are ahead here. But I also know there are very varying opinions inside of Anthropic. I also suspect most of the leadership don’t actually really worry much. I listened this week to the recent, full 5+h podcast with Lex Friedman and Anthropic reps. and that reinforced that notion in me.
I will read up.
I’ve now read the first half of the transcript of that podcast (the one with Dario), and that was very interesting, thanks again! I still need to read what Amanda Askell and Chris Olah say in the second half. Some of their views might be a moving target, a year is a lot in this field, but it should still be quite informative.
The reason I am writing is that I’ve noticed a non-profit org, Eleos AI Research, specifically dedicated to investigations of AI sentience and wellbeing, https://eleosai.org/, led by Robert Long, https://robertlong.online/. There are even having a conference in 10 days or so (although it’s sort of a mess organizationally, no registration link, but just a contact e-mail, https://eleosai.org/conference/). Their Nov 2024 preprint might also be of interest, “Taking AI Welfare Seriously”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986.
I would expect varying opinions inside Anthropic. It’s a big place, plenty of independent thinkers…
Thanks for attracting my attention to that Lex Friedman podcast with Anthropic people (#452, Nov 11, 2024). I’ll make sure to try to understand nuances of what they are saying (Dario, Amanda Askell, and Chris Olah are a very interesting group of people).