How should we navigate explosive AI progress? The latest research from Forethought.
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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...
A draft honesty policy for credible communication with AI systems
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This is a rough research note – we’re sharing it for feedback and to spark discussion. We’re less confident in its methods and conclusions.
Context
We think that...
The Saturation View
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In collaboration with Christian Tarsney, I’ve developed a new theory of population ethics, which I call the Saturation View. I think that, from a purely intelle...
AI for decision advice
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We’ve written about why we think AI character — the behaviour of AI systems — will have a massive impact on how well the intelligence explosion goes, and why we...
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AI macrostrategy research
Philosopher at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
Mathematician-turned-futurist. I like puzzles and helping people. Trying to say sensible things about the future scratches both itches.
Researcher@FLF. Formerly UK AI Safety Institute and Oxford. Father of one little legend. I like pizza, friends, symphonies, sentient flourishing, and boardgames.
Visiting researcher at AI Impacts
Writing about the future
Research Analyst at Redwood Research.
Philosopher; figuring out how to do good better.
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