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Tim Duffy

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Should we consider LLMs morally responsible for their actions?

Some modern LLMs are capable of sophisticated moral reasoning. When presented with a moral dilemma, they will often think it through more thoroughly than many humans. More importantly, models proactively take ethical considerations into acc...

6 months ago
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Thinking About AI Introspection

Recently lots of folks in AI are discussing introspection, and at least in some cases the way the term is being used seems slightly different from its application in humans. In this post I try to understand how it’s being used now, and how...

a year ago
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Moral Realism for Babies

The year is 1990, and I am a baby. I am bawling my eyes out. I do not like the experience I am currently having, and I don’t want to keep having it.

“This is bad”, I think. Except I don’t know any words yet, so my thoughts on the matter ar...

a year ago
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The Limits of Superintelligence

I’m not sure how much I really believe in superintelligence, at least in the way some people do. To be clear I do think an AI can be smarter than humans across all domains, and I think this is likely to be achieved within the next couple de...

a year ago
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Syco-bench: A Simple Benchmark of LLM Sycophancy

Last week, OpenAI released an update to their 4o model that displayed a stunning degree of sycophancy. I had considered the tendency of LLMs to praise their users an annoyance before, but like many others I now think it’s a serious issue. O...

a year ago
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