The Counterfactual
Sophie Kim"What if?" // Exploring roads not yet taken in AI governance.
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Anthropic Can Prove That It Wants to Pace
The most insane power sibling duo ever. Image source: Fortune
There are, broadly speaking, two camps in AI safety (with respect to how people view Anthropic):
- Camp 1 believes that all the frontier labs are ~equally bad, insofar as the...
Evolved, Edited, Engineered: Not All Pathogens Are Built the Same
This is an old piece from my AI biosecurity days earlier this year. Finally cleaned it up and published! :)
The tone is slightly more formal than most other things on my blog. I originally wrote it for bioweapon.ai, then decided to make i...
AI safety should outsource more work
Update 10/6: After a great chat with a friend, have added an analogy re: the Colombia-Venezuela border conflict to this post! Have also added a note re: counterfactual impact in the footnote.
The structure of this post is roughly:...
Preventing data poisoning seems surprisingly tractable*
Meta-note: This is somewhat of a different flavor of post than my usual policy and geopolitics-focused writing. The reason for this is because I’m currently working on becoming more technical! As I do this, I’ll be writing up the things I l...
AI Safety Grantmaking Fundamentals Curriculum: FAQ
Fill out this form to indicate interest in a grantmaking fundamentals pilot program, either as a participant (to learn about grantmaking) or as a speaker (if you’re a grantmaker)!
Someone recently left me some helpful feedback on my anonym...
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