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What should go in a model spec?
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Suppose an AI company is considering whether to include some particular quality X – a rule, virtue, heuristic, default, attitude, goal, or style – in a model...
How can the middle powers avoid getting trounced during the intelligence explosion? A plan.
Superintelligence will likely be developed by US companies; run on US data centres; and be under the jurisdiction of the US government. This will massively boost US military power and make the US economically dominant (e.g. US producing 99%...
Will We Really Put Data Centers in Space?
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Several major technology companies have announced plans to operate AI data centers in orbit. Elon Musk recently claimed: “the lowest-cost place to p...
A Research Agenda for Secret Loyalties
Kwon et al., have published a new paper: “AIs with Secret Loyalties are a Serious but Addressable Threat”.
A model has a secret loyalty when it has been intentionally caused to advance a specific actor’s interests (the principal) and this...
Stickiness in AI Behavioral Design
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Current model specs aim to shape the behaviors of near-present models, rather than the behaviors of models arbitrarily far into the future. OpenAI writes tha...
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AI macrostrategy research
Research Analyst at Redwood Research.
Researcher@FLF. Formerly UK AI Safety Institute and Oxford. Father of one little legend. I like pizza, friends, symphonies, sentient flourishing, and boardgames.
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Writing about the future
Mathematician-turned-futurist. I like puzzles and helping people. Trying to say sensible things about the future scratches both itches.
Philosopher; figuring out how to do good better.
Philosopher at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
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