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Should Philanthropists Save Their Money for the Intelligence Explosion?

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Policy ideas to ensure responsible government deployment of AI

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  • Governments are going to deploy frontier AI in the domains where they have exclusive powers: military, intelligence, surveillance, and punitive la...
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Speed-up calculator: How much will automating AI R&D speed up AI software progress, absent a software intelligence explosion?

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    Research Analyst at Redwood Research.

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    PhD student in economics at Columbia University. Interested in growth, welfare and technology.

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    Visiting researcher at AI Impacts

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    Writing about the future

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    Mathematician-turned-futurist. I like puzzles and helping people. Trying to say sensible things about the future scratches both itches.

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