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Marcus Arvan

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Why It's OK to be a Moderate


Podcast interview at Academic Edgelords (a self-described “leftist podcast”):


A second interview at “Micro-Digressions: A Philosophy Podcast”:


“Arvan makes a well-reasoned, well-researched, and well-written case for...

5 months ago
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Anthropic's record, CNN interview, and "soul document" show they’re no closer to AI alignment

By Marcus Arvan

This past May, I wrote a post entitled, “The A.I. Safety Embarrassment Cycle”, which documented both how and why AI have continued behave in the same unsafe and unethical ways for years now despite billions of dollars flowi...

5 months ago
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The A.I. Safety Embarrassment Cycle

By Marcus Arvan

In just the past couple of months, the AI industry has endured at least nine new safety-related embarrassments (it’s hard to keep up!):

  1. Two days ago, it was reported that “OpenAI's latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown...
a year ago
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The Fatal Flaws of the Prevailing AI Safety Paradigm

Soon after large language model AI (LLMs) were first publicly released in late 2022, they immediately began misbehaving, often in quite disturbing ways. In February 2023, Microsoft’s LLM “Sydney” went berserk, threatening to kill an Austral...

a year ago

No one knows how to reliably test for AI safety

By Marcus Arvan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Tampa

Large-language AI models such as GPT-3 and 4 do many incredible things—but they also learn to do many unexpected things. Developers at Microsoft were surprised (to...

3 years ago
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