AI Safety Newsletter

aog
16 May 2023 15:31 UTC

The AI Safety Newsletter is a weekly newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. It discusses recent developments in AI and AI safety, from policy advancements to relevant world events to the latest safety research.

The newsletter is written for a general audience. No technical background required.

AI Safety Newslet­ter #1 [CAIS Linkpost]

Orpheus16, Dan H and ozhang
10 Apr 2023 20:18 UTC
45 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
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AI Safety Newslet­ter #2: ChaosGPT, Nat­u­ral Selec­tion, and AI Safety in the Media

ozhang, Dan H and Orpheus16
18 Apr 2023 18:44 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI Safety Newslet­ter #3: AI policy pro­pos­als and a new challenger approaches

ozhang25 Apr 2023 16:15 UTC
33 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI Safety Newslet­ter #4: AI and Cy­ber­se­cu­rity, Per­sua­sive AIs, Weaponiza­tion, and Ge­offrey Hin­ton talks AI risks

ozhang, Dan H and Orpheus16
2 May 2023 18:41 UTC
32 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
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AI Safety Newslet­ter #5: Ge­offrey Hin­ton speaks out on AI risk, the White House meets with AI labs, and Tro­jan at­tacks on lan­guage models

Dan H and Orpheus16
9 May 2023 15:26 UTC
31 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

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 and Orpheus16
16 May 2023 15:14 UTC
31 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

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

Dan H and Orpheus16
23 May 2023 21:47 UTC
25 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
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AI Safety Newslet­ter #8: Rogue AIs, how to screen for AI risks, and grants for re­search on demo­cratic gov­er­nance of AI

Dan H and Orpheus16
30 May 2023 11:52 UTC
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #9: State­ment on Ex­tinc­tion Risks, Com­pet­i­tive Pres­sures, and When Will AI Reach Hu­man-Level?

Dan H6 Jun 2023 16:10 UTC
12 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #12: Policy Pro­pos­als from NTIA’s Re­quest for Com­ment and Re­con­sid­er­ing In­stru­men­tal Convergence

Dan H27 Jun 2023 17:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
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AISN #13: An in­ter­dis­ci­plinary per­spec­tive on AI proxy failures, new com­peti­tors to ChatGPT, and prompt­ing lan­guage mod­els to misbehave

Dan H5 Jul 2023 15:33 UTC
13 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN#14: OpenAI’s ‘Su­per­al­ign­ment’ team, Musk’s xAI launches, and de­vel­op­ments in mil­i­tary AI use

Dan H12 Jul 2023 16:58 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN#15: China and the US take ac­tion to reg­u­late AI, re­sults from a tour­na­ment fore­cast­ing AI risk, up­dates on xAI’s plan, and Meta re­leases its open-source and com­mer­cially available Llama 2

Corin Katzke and Dan H
19 Jul 2023 13:01 UTC
16 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #16: White House Se­cures Vol­un­tary Com­mit­ments from Lead­ing AI Labs and Les­sons from Oppenheimer

Dan H and Corin Katzke
1 Aug 2023 15:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
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AISN #17: Au­to­mat­i­cally Cir­cum­vent­ing LLM Guardrails, the Fron­tier Model Fo­rum, and Se­nate Hear­ing on AI Oversight

Dan H1 Aug 2023 15:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
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AISN #18: Challenges of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing from Hu­man Feed­back, Microsoft’s Se­cu­rity Breach, and Con­cep­tual Re­search on AI Safety

Dan H8 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
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AISN #19: US-China Com­pe­ti­tion on AI Chips, Mea­sur­ing Lan­guage Agent Devel­op­ments, Eco­nomic Anal­y­sis of Lan­guage Model Pro­pa­ganda, and White House AI Cy­ber Challenge

Dan H15 Aug 2023 16:10 UTC
21 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
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AISN #20: LLM Pro­lifer­a­tion, AI De­cep­tion, and Con­tin­u­ing Drivers of AI Capabilities

Dan H29 Aug 2023 15:07 UTC
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
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AISN #21: Google Deep­Mind’s GPT-4 Com­peti­tor, Mili­tary In­vest­ments in Au­tonomous Drones, The UK AI Safety Sum­mit, and Case Stud­ies in AI Policy

Dan H5 Sep 2023 15:03 UTC
15 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
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AISN #22: The Land­scape of US AI Leg­is­la­tion - Hear­ings, Frame­works, Bills, and Laws

Dan H19 Sep 2023 14:44 UTC
20 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
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AISN #23: New OpenAI Models, News from An­thropic, and Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Engineering

Dan H4 Oct 2023 17:37 UTC
15 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
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AISN #24: Kiss­inger Urges US-China Co­op­er­a­tion on AI, China’s New AI Law, US Ex­port Con­trols, In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tu­tions, and Open Source AI

Dan H and Corin Katzke
18 Oct 2023 17:06 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
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AISN #25: White House Ex­ec­u­tive Order on AI, UK AI Safety Sum­mit, and Progress on Vol­un­tary Eval­u­a­tions of AI Risks

Dan H31 Oct 2023 19:34 UTC
35 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #26: Na­tional In­sti­tu­tions for AI Safety, Re­sults From the UK Sum­mit, and New Re­leases From OpenAI and xAI

Corin Katzke, allison huang and Dan H
15 Nov 2023 16:07 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #27: Defen­sive Ac­cel­er­a­tionism, A Ret­ro­spec­tive On The OpenAI Board Saga, And A New AI Bill From Se­na­tors Thune And Klobuchar

Dan H, Corin Katzke and allison huang
7 Dec 2023 15:59 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #28: Cen­ter for AI Safety 2023 Year in Review

Dan H23 Dec 2023 21:31 UTC
30 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
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AISN #29: Progress on the EU AI Act Plus, the NY Times sues OpenAI for Copy­right In­fringe­ment, and Con­gres­sional Ques­tions about Re­search Stan­dards in AI Safety

Dan H and Corin Katzke
4 Jan 2024 16:09 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
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AISN #30: In­vest­ments in Com­pute and Mili­tary AI Plus, Ja­pan and Sin­ga­pore’s Na­tional AI Safety Institutes

Dan H and Corin Katzke
24 Jan 2024 19:38 UTC
27 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #31: A New AI Policy Bill in Cal­ifor­nia Plus, Prece­dents for AI Gover­nance and The EU AI Office

Dan H21 Feb 2024 21:58 UTC
17 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
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AISN #32: Mea­sur­ing and Re­duc­ing Hazardous Knowl­edge in LLMs Plus, Fore­cast­ing the Fu­ture with LLMs, and Reg­u­la­tory Markets

Corin Katzke and Dan H
7 Mar 2024 16:39 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #33: Re­assess­ing AI and Biorisk Plus, Con­soli­da­tion in the Cor­po­rate AI Land­scape, and Na­tional In­vest­ments in AI

Corin Katzke, Alexa Pan and Dan H
12 Apr 2024 16:10 UTC
13 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #34: New Mili­tary AI Sys­tems Plus, AI Labs Fail to Uphold Vol­un­tary Com­mit­ments to UK AI Safety In­sti­tute, and New AI Policy Pro­pos­als in the US Senate

Corin Katzke and Dan H
2 May 2024 16:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #35: Lob­by­ing on AI Reg­u­la­tion Plus, New Models from OpenAI and Google, and Le­gal Regimes for Train­ing on Copy­righted Data

Dan H and Corin Katzke
16 May 2024 14:29 UTC
2 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)