How should we navigate explosive AI progress? The latest research from Forethought.
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How long is the long reflection?
In 2018, the long reflection was long. Will MacAskill, introducing the idea: "maybe it's 10 billion people, debating and working on these issues for 10,000 years because the importance is just so great." Or, on another podcast that year: "P...
Three types of automated alignment work
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If we’re thinking about automating alignment, it may help to distinguish different types of work we may wish to automate:
- Empirical alignment research: desi...
Could a first mover lock everyone out of outer space?
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Abstract
In this piece, we ask whether a first mover could prevent others from accessing outer space, or at least raise the cost of doing so. If this is pos...
Can the US slow AI R&D and keep its lead over China?
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After a series of incidents involving misaligned AI agents, including the hack of Hugging Face, technology leaders including Dario Amodei,...
Hard cases for AI behavioural design
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Executive summary
Society needs to make a series of important design choices about how powerful AI systems behave: when they refuse instructions, how they nav...
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AI macrostrategy research
The art of noticing what matters. I have eclectic interests, from anthropics to zoology. My goal is to find and share the weird and wonderful patterns of the world. Currently @ Forethought Past jobs: grantmaker, researcher, software engineer
Head of Strategic Initiatives at Forethought
Effective altruist, theist, utilitarian philosophy blogger. PhD student at Princeton in philosophy. Emergent ventures grantee. Advocate for taking ideas, morality, and the interests of neglected sentient beings seriously.
Philosopher at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
PhD student in economics at Columbia University. Interested in growth, welfare and technology.
Writing about the future
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Philosopher; figuring out how to do good better.
AI safety grantmaking and strategy. Previously dabbled in biosecurity and quant trading.
I like to read things.
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