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’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.