OpenAI

TagLast edit: Dec 30, 2024, 10:32 AM by Dakara

OpenAI is an organisation that performs AI research, and houses a substantial amount of AI alignment research. Its stated mission is “Discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.”

Public-facing Censorship Is Safety Theater, Causing Reputational Damage

YitzSep 23, 2022, 5:08 AM

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Sam Altman’s sister claims Sam sexually abused her—Part 1: Introduction, outline, author’s notes

pythagoras5015Oct 7, 2023, 9:06 PM

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Developmental Stages of GPTs

orthonormalJul 26, 2020, 10:03 PM

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Common misconceptions about OpenAI

Jacob_HiltonAug 25, 2022, 2:02 PM

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GPT-4 Plugs In

ZviMar 27, 2023, 12:10 PM

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the scaling “inconsistency”: openAI’s new insight

nostalgebraistNov 7, 2020, 7:40 AM

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An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive

BenquoApr 19, 2017, 9:05 AM

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Transcript of Sam Altman’s interview touching on AI safety

Andy_McKenzieJan 20, 2023, 4:14 PM

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OpenAI makes humanity less safe

BenquoApr 3, 2017, 7:07 PM

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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

Kaj_SotalaMar 5, 2021, 9:01 AM

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OpenAI charter

wunanApr 9, 2018, 9:02 PM

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(blog.openai.com)

[Question] Will OpenAI’s work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI?

adamShimiAug 11, 2020, 6:16 PM

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OpenAI announces GPT-3

gwernMay 29, 2020, 1:49 AM

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(arxiv.org)

[Question] How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copilot affect programming?

smountjoyJun 29, 2021, 4:42 PM

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DALL·E 2 by OpenAI

P.Apr 6, 2022, 2:17 PM

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A challenge for AGI organizations, and a challenge for readers

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Dec 1, 2022, 11:11 PM

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[Linkpost] Introducing Superalignment

berenJul 5, 2023, 6:23 PM

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DALL-E by OpenAI

Daniel KokotajloJan 5, 2021, 8:05 PM

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A Brief Assessment of OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework & Some Suggestions for Improvement

simeon_cJan 22, 2024, 8:08 PM

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Boycott OpenAI

PeterMcCluskeyJun 18, 2024, 7:52 PM

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Misnaming and Other Issues with OpenAI’s “Human Level” Superintelligence Hierarchy

DavidmanheimJul 15, 2024, 5:50 AM

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Non-Disparagement Canaries for OpenAI

aysja and Adam Scholl

May 30, 2024, 7:20 PM

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An evaluation of Helen Toner’s interview on the TED AI Show

peter_hartreeJun 6, 2024, 5:39 PM

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OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)

RemmeltMar 31, 2025, 4:17 AM

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OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux

ZviMar 31, 2025, 3:50 PM

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My thoughts on OpenAI’s Alignment plan

Donald HobsonDec 10, 2022, 10:35 AM

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Inside OpenAI’s Controversial Plan to Abandon its Nonprofit Roots

garrisonApr 18, 2025, 6:46 PM

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(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

On OpenAI’s Model Spec

ZviJun 21, 2024, 1:00 PM

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My thoughts on OpenAI’s alignment plan

Orpheus16Dec 30, 2022, 7:33 PM

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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors

Joel BurgetJun 13, 2024, 9:28 PM

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[Question] Can GPT-4 play 20 questions against another instance of itself?

Nathan Helm-BurgerMar 28, 2023, 1:11 AM

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Sam Altman: “Planning for AGI and beyond”

LawrenceCFeb 24, 2023, 8:28 PM

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(openai.com)

What is OpenAI’s plan for making AI Safer?

brookSep 1, 2023, 11:15 AM

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[Linkpost] Scott Alexander reacts to OpenAI’s latest post

Orpheus16Mar 11, 2023, 10:24 PM

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Possible OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough and DeepMind’s AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs

BurnyNov 23, 2023, 3:16 AM

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How do new models from OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic perform on TruthfulQA?

Owain_EvansFeb 26, 2022, 12:46 PM

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On Deliberative Alignment

ZviFeb 11, 2025, 1:00 PM

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What the Headlines Miss About the Latest Decision in the Musk vs. OpenAI Lawsuit

garrisonMar 6, 2025, 7:49 PM

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dalle2 comments

nostalgebraistApr 26, 2022, 5:30 AM

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[Question] What do we know about the AI knowledge and views, especially about existential risk, of the new OpenAI board members?

ZviMar 11, 2024, 2:55 PM

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OpenAI Codex: First Impressions

specbugAug 13, 2021, 4:52 PM

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[Question] How does OpenAI’s language model affect our AI timeline estimates?

jimrandomhFeb 15, 2019, 3:11 AM

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What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

garrisonMay 17, 2025, 11:14 PM

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(www.obsolete.pub)

Unit economics of LLM APIs

dschwarz, nikos, Lawrence Phillips and kotrfa

Aug 27, 2024, 4:51 PM

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My May 2023 priorities for AI x-safety: more empathy, more unification of concerns, and less vilification of OpenAI

Andrew_CritchMay 24, 2023, 12:02 AM

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On GPT-4.5

ZviMar 3, 2025, 1:40 PM

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OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework: Praise & Recommendations

Orpheus16Jan 2, 2024, 4:20 PM

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[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael HarthOct 9, 2021, 1:10 PM

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OpenAI lied about SFT vs. RLHF

sanxiynFeb 10, 2025, 3:24 AM

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Review of Alignment Plan Critiques- December AI-Plans Critique-a-Thon Results

IknownothingJan 15, 2024, 7:37 PM

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OpenAI’s GPT-4 Safety Goals

PeterMcCluskeyApr 22, 2023, 7:11 PM

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A crazy hypothesis: GPT-4 already is agentic and is trying to take over the world!

Christopher KingMar 24, 2023, 1:19 AM

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John Schulman leaves OpenAI for Anthropic [and then left Anthropic again for Thinking Machines]

SodiumAug 6, 2024, 1:23 AM

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[Link] OpenAI on why we need social scientists

ioannesFeb 19, 2019, 4:59 PM

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Comments on OpenAI’s “Planning for AGI and beyond”

So8resMar 3, 2023, 11:01 PM

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On OpenAI Dev Day

ZviNov 9, 2023, 4:10 PM

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OpenAI’s Intelligence Levels

infinibot27Jul 13, 2024, 6:25 AM

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(www.bloomberg.com)

OpenAI now has an RL API which is broadly accessible

ryan_greenblattJun 11, 2025, 11:39 PM

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Dall-E 3

p.b.Oct 2, 2023, 8:33 PM

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(openai.com)

AI #76: Six Shorts Stories About OpenAI

ZviAug 8, 2024, 1:50 PM

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The Hacker Learns to Trust

Ben PaceJun 22, 2019, 12:27 AM

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(medium.com)

[Link] Introducing OpenAI

BaughnDec 11, 2015, 9:54 PM

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OpenAI #10: Reflections

ZviJan 7, 2025, 5:00 PM

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On Dwarkesh’s Podcast with OpenAI’s John Schulman

ZviMay 21, 2024, 5:30 PM

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ARC tests to see if GPT-4 can escape human control; GPT-4 failed to do so

Christopher KingMar 15, 2023, 12:29 AM

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Dialogue on the Claim: “OpenAI’s Firing of Sam Altman (And Shortly-Subsequent Events) On Net Reduced Existential Risk From AGI”

johnswentworth and Ruby

Nov 21, 2023, 5:39 PM

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Meta: Frontier AI Framework

Zach Stein-PerlmanFeb 3, 2025, 10:00 PM

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OpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal Control

ZviMay 7, 2025, 7:40 PM

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OpenAI #11: America Action Plan

ZviMar 18, 2025, 12:50 PM

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Microsoft Plans to Invest $10B in OpenAI; $3B Invested to Date | Fortune

DragonGodJan 12, 2023, 3:55 AM

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[Link] OpenAI: Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)

Aryeh EnglanderJun 23, 2022, 4:29 PM

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[Question] Who owns OpenAI’s new language model?

ioannesFeb 14, 2019, 5:51 PM

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OpenAI: Preparedness framework

Zach Stein-PerlmanDec 18, 2023, 6:30 PM

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OpenAI Model Differentiation 101

ZviJul 11, 2025, 8:30 PM

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Episode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

Austin ChenMay 25, 2024, 4:15 PM

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o3, Oh My

ZviDec 30, 2024, 2:10 PM

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AXRP Episode 24 - Superalignment with Jan Leike

DanielFilanJul 27, 2023, 4:00 AM

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o3 Will Use Its Tools For You

ZviApr 18, 2025, 9:20 PM

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Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceCNov 17, 2023, 8:42 PM

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OpenAI/Microsoft announce “next generation language model” integrated into Bing/Edge

LawrenceCFeb 7, 2023, 8:38 PM

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(blogs.microsoft.com)

OpenAI: Helen Toner Speaks

ZviMay 30, 2024, 9:10 PM

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BIG-Bench Canary Contamination in GPT-4

JozdienOct 22, 2024, 3:40 PM

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Sam Altman on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367

Gabe MMar 25, 2023, 7:08 PM

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OpenAI: Fallout

ZviMay 28, 2024, 1:20 PM

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Open AI co-founder on AGI

ShardPhoenixSep 16, 2018, 10:18 AM

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OpenAI releases GPT-4o, natively interfacing with text, voice and vision

Martín SotoMay 13, 2024, 6:50 PM

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o3

Zach Stein-PerlmanDec 20, 2024, 6:30 PM

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The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales

ZviFeb 14, 2025, 3:30 PM

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“Successful language model evals” by Jason Wei

Arjun PanicksseryMay 25, 2024, 9:34 AM

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OpenAI #8: The Right to Warn

ZviJun 17, 2024, 12:00 PM

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What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?

ozziegooenMay 21, 2024, 2:22 AM

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[LINK] OpenAI doing an AMA today

VikaJan 9, 2016, 2:47 PM

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An attempt to steelman OpenAI’s alignment plan

Nathan Helm-BurgerJul 13, 2023, 6:25 PM

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OpenAI introduce ChatGPT API at 1/10th the previous $/token

Arthur ConmyMar 1, 2023, 8:48 PM

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Elon files grave charges against OpenAI

mako yassMar 1, 2024, 5:42 PM

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Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhubNov 1, 2019, 8:13 PM

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Anthropic AI made the right call

bhauthApr 15, 2024, 12:39 AM

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Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson

ZviMay 22, 2024, 3:10 PM

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Frontier Model Forum

Zach Stein-PerlmanJul 26, 2023, 2:30 PM

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[Link] OpenAI LP

AlexeiMar 12, 2019, 11:22 PM

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On DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework

ZviJun 18, 2024, 1:30 PM

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[Question] What should OpenAI do that it hasn’t already done, to stop their vacancies from being advertised on the 80k Job Board?

WitheringWeightsOct 21, 2024, 1:57 PM

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Why did ChatGPT say that? Prompt engineering and more, with PIZZA.

Jessica RumbelowAug 3, 2024, 12:07 PM

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OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0

ZviMay 2, 2025, 1:10 PM

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[Linkpost] Jan Leike on three kinds of alignment taxes

Orpheus16Jan 6, 2023, 11:57 PM

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[Question] why did OpenAI employees sign

bhauthNov 27, 2023, 5:21 AM

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OpenAI’s Alignment Plans

dkirmaniAug 24, 2022, 7:39 PM

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AI #2

ZviMar 2, 2023, 2:50 PM

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Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign from OpenAI [updated]

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 15, 2024, 12:45 AM

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Request to AGI organizations: Share your views on pausing AI progress

Orpheus16 and simeon_c

Apr 11, 2023, 5:30 PM

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GPT-4o System Card

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 8, 2024, 8:30 PM

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ChatGPT: First Impressions

specbugDec 1, 2022, 4:36 PM

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SHY001 A Named Behavior Loop Trained and Deployed in GPT Systems

0san ShinMay 12, 2025, 7:36 AM

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In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D’Angelo, and Tasha McCauley

peterrDec 6, 2023, 2:02 AM

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OpenAI releases functional Dota 5v5 bot, aims to beat world champions by August

habrykaJun 26, 2018, 10:40 PM

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(blog.openai.com)

ARC-AGI is a genuine AGI test but o3 cheated :(

Knight LeeDec 22, 2024, 12:58 AM

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GPT-4

nzMar 14, 2023, 5:02 PM

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80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

RaemonJul 3, 2024, 8:34 PM

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On the Importance of Open Sourcing Reward Models

elandgreJan 2, 2023, 7:01 PM

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GPT-4o is out

WitheringWeightsMay 13, 2024, 6:33 PM

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OpenAI Credit Account (2510$)

Emirhan BULUTJan 21, 2024, 2:32 AM

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ChatGPT understands, but largely does not generate Spanglish (and other code-mixed) text

Milan WDec 23, 2022, 5:40 PM

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Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

evhubMar 10, 2020, 7:36 PM

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[Question] Using hex to get murder advice from GPT-4o

Laurence FreemanNov 13, 2024, 6:30 PM

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Why I’m doing PauseAI

Joseph MillerApr 30, 2024, 4:21 PM

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Meta AI (FAIR) latest paper integrates system-1 and system-2 thinking into reasoning models.

happy fridayOct 24, 2024, 4:54 PM

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Did ChatGPT just gaslight me?

TW123Dec 1, 2022, 5:41 AM

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Addressing doubts of AI progress: Why GPT-5 is not late, and why data scarcity isn’t a fundamental limiter near term.

LDJJan 17, 2025, 6:53 PM

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OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

ZviNov 20, 2023, 3:30 PM

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Using rationality to debug Machine Learning

Dr_ManhattanApr 10, 2018, 8:03 PM

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[Question] Is OpenAI losing money on each request?

thenoviceoofDec 1, 2023, 3:27 AM

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OpenAI: Our approach to AI safety

Jacob G-WApr 5, 2023, 8:26 PM

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OpenAI Solves (Some) Formal Math Olympiad Problems

Michaël TrazziFeb 2, 2022, 9:49 PM

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CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

RemmeltMar 31, 2025, 3:52 AM

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W2SG: Introduction

Maria KaprosMar 10, 2024, 4:25 PM

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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

ZviNov 22, 2023, 5:30 PM

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Rishi Sunak mentions “existential threats” in talk with OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs

Arjun Panickssery, Baldassare Castiglione and Cleo Nardo

May 24, 2023, 9:06 PM

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AI safety advocates should consider providing gentle pushback following the events at OpenAI

civilsocietyDec 22, 2023, 6:55 PM

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Debate update: Obfuscated arguments problem

Beth BarnesDec 23, 2020, 3:24 AM

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Programming AGI is impossible

Áron EcsenyiMay 30, 2023, 11:05 PM

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Evaluating OpenAI’s alignment plans using training stories

ojorgensenAug 25, 2022, 4:12 PM

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I had a chat with GPT-4 on the future of AI and AI safety

Kristian FreedMar 28, 2023, 5:47 PM

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Nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI

ArchimedesMay 5, 2025, 11:41 PM

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OpenAI’s Jig May Be Up

ValeMay 6, 2025, 8:51 AM

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OpenAI: “Scaling Laws for Transfer”, Hernandez et al.

Lukas FinnvedenFeb 4, 2021, 12:49 PM

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In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D’Angelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post)

peterrDec 5, 2023, 6:40 PM

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GPT-4 Predictions

Stephen McAleeseFeb 17, 2023, 11:20 PM

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Microsoft and OpenAI, stop telling chatbots to roleplay as AI

hold_my_fishFeb 17, 2023, 7:55 PM

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From Fragment to Form: A Personal Prelude to Human–AI Resonance

Vladimir KimApr 6, 2025, 8:24 PM

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Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

RemmeltMar 9, 2024, 12:22 PM

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What can we learn from Lex Fridman’s interview with Sam Altman?

Karl von WendtMar 27, 2023, 6:27 AM

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Scott Aaronson is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety

peterbarnettJun 18, 2022, 4:06 AM

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Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

David VargaNov 20, 2023, 1:09 PM

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A Girardian interpretation of the Altman affair, it’s on my to-do list

Bill BenzonNov 20, 2023, 12:21 PM

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[Question] Injecting noise to GPT to get multiple answers

bipoloFeb 22, 2023, 8:02 PM

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OpenAI: Altman Returns

ZviNov 30, 2023, 2:10 PM

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[Question] Why OpenAI projects only $174B of revenue by 2030?

becausecuriousMay 15, 2025, 2:50 AM

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[EAForum xpost] A breakdown of OpenAI’s revenue

dschwarz and Lawrence Phillips

Jul 10, 2024, 6:09 PM

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Sam Altman’s Business Negging

Julian BradshawSep 30, 2024, 9:06 PM

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Sydney the Bingenator Can’t Think, But It Still Threatens People

Valentin BaltadzhievFeb 20, 2023, 6:37 PM

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Steering Behaviour: Testing for (Non-)Myopia in Language Models

Evan R. Murphy and Megan Kinniment

Dec 5, 2022, 8:28 PM

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Mira Murati leaves OpenAI/ OpenAI to remove non-profit control

SodiumSep 25, 2024, 9:15 PM

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AI in Government: Resilience in an Era of AI Monoculture

prueJun 8, 2025, 9:00 PM

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[Question] Is OpenAI net negative for AI Safety?

Lysandre TerrisseNov 2, 2024, 4:18 PM

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A first success story for Outer Alignment: InstructGPT

Noosphere89Nov 8, 2022, 10:52 PM

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Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers

ozziegooenNov 9, 2018, 8:57 PM

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NYT: Google will “recalibrate” the risk of releasing AI due to competition with OpenAI

Michael HuangJan 22, 2023, 8:38 AM

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Dario Amodei leaves OpenAI

Daniel KokotajloDec 29, 2020, 7:31 PM

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OpenAI’s Alignment Plan is not S.M.A.R.T.

Søren ElverlinJan 18, 2023, 6:39 AM

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On AI and Compute

johncroxApr 3, 2019, 7:00 PM

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OpenAI: Exodus

ZviMay 20, 2024, 1:10 PM

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[Linkpost] Sam Altman’s 2015 Blog Posts Machine Intelligence Parts 1 & 2

Olive BranchApr 28, 2023, 4:02 PM

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Ex-OpenAI employee amici leave to file denied in Musk v OpenAI case?

TFDMay 2, 2025, 12:27 PM

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Technical Report: Emergent Subjectivity in AI Dialogue Systems

Ivan FromDubaiMar 21, 2025, 12:37 PM

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OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

RemmeltOct 21, 2024, 8:41 AM

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OpenAI: The Board Expands

ZviMar 12, 2024, 2:00 PM

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OpenAI Credit Account (2510$)

Emirhan BULUTJan 21, 2024, 2:30 AM

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GPT-5 is out

david reinsteinAug 7, 2025, 8:33 PM

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[LINK] - ChatGPT discussion

JanBDec 1, 2022, 3:04 PM

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“Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback”—OpenAI

[deleted]Sep 7, 2020, 5:59 PM

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An observation on self-play

jonrxuMay 26, 2025, 5:22 PM

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The Underreaction to OpenAI

SherrinfordJan 18, 2024, 10:08 PM

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The Great OpenAI Debate: Should It Stay ‘Open’ or Go Private?

SatyaDec 30, 2024, 1:14 AM

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Former OpenAI Superalignment Researcher: Superintelligence by 2030

Julian BradshawJun 5, 2024, 3:35 AM

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Satire: Sam Altman get’s grilled by the Financial Times for his kitchen and his cooking skills + what this might say about him

Marius Adrian NicoarăMay 13, 2025, 9:38 AM

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Imitative Generalisation (AKA ‘Learning the Prior’)

Beth BarnesJan 10, 2021, 12:30 AM

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Map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.

RemmeltMar 26, 2025, 7:57 AM

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Bioweapons, and ChatGPT (another vulnerability story)

BeeblebroxDec 7, 2022, 7:27 AM

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Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristianoOct 1, 2020, 6:54 PM

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Alignment Newsletter #13: 07/02/18

Rohin ShahJul 2, 2018, 4:10 PM

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Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test

Matrice JacobineApr 2, 2025, 5:41 AM

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[Question] How is GPT-4o Related to GPT-4?

Joel BurgetMay 15, 2024, 6:33 PM

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AGI: Hire Software Engineers—All of Them, Right Now

MGowMar 30, 2023, 6:40 PM

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Why Did Elon Musk Just Offer to Buy Control of OpenAI for $100 Billion?

garrisonFeb 11, 2025, 12:20 AM

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Nyarlathotep Stirs: A Meta-Narrative ChatGPT Story

Charlie SandersMar 20, 2023, 8:00 AM

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Miles Brundage resigned from OpenAI, and his AGI readiness team was disbanded

garrisonOct 23, 2024, 11:40 PM

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[Question] GPT-4 Specs: 1 Trillion Parameters?

infinibot27Mar 26, 2023, 6:56 PM

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ChatGPT seems overconfident to me

qbolecDec 4, 2022, 8:03 AM

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The Slippery Slope from DALLE-2 to Deepfake Anarchy

scasperNov 5, 2022, 2:53 PM

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OpenAI Boycott Revisit

Jake DennieJul 22, 2024, 1:44 AM

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[Question] Transformer trained on it’s own content?

MicromegasApr 1, 2023, 3:08 PM

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OpenAI introduces function calling for GPT-4

mic and André Ferretti

Jun 20, 2023, 1:58 AM

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The future of Humans: Operators of AI

François-Joseph LacroixDec 30, 2023, 11:46 PM

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[Link] Why I’m optimistic about OpenAI’s alignment approach

janleikeDec 5, 2022, 10:51 PM

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Scalable And Transferable Black-Box Jailbreaks For Language Models Via Persona Modulation

Soroush Pour, rusheb, Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI, Arush and scasper

Nov 7, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Could We Automate AI Alignment Research?

Stephen McAleeseAug 10, 2023, 12:17 PM

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[Question] Why does ChatGPT throw an error when outputting “David Mayer”?

ArchimedesDec 1, 2024, 12:11 AM

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OpenAI Responses API changes models’ behavior

Jan Betley and James Chua

Apr 11, 2025, 1:27 PM

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The Information: OpenAI shows ‘Strawberry’ to feds, races to launch it

Martín SotoAug 27, 2024, 11:10 PM

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