A widely discussed potential risk from LLMs is increased access to biothreat creation information. Building on our Preparedness Framework, we wanted to design evaluations of how real this information access risk is today and how we could monitor it going forward.
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AI Transparency: Disclosing Generated Content for Consumer Trust
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As identifying what is real and what is fake becomes increasingly unclear, organizations can and should prioritize processes for disclosing AI-generated content. SAS' Lindsey Coombs offers suggestions for mitigating risk and gaining trust among consumers. http://
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E/acc ideology anarcho-capitalist opposition to deceleration
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e/acc does not try to make a rational case for accelerationism, it is (rather unprincipled) anarcho capitalist opposition to decels
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AI Integration Unlocks Unprecedented Potential for Societal Progress
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As AI seamlessly integrates into our systems, we unlock unprecedented potential for societal progress–especially as we develop foundational capabilities to sustain this transformative infrastructure. #KnowAI #AIInnovation #aiforgood #aiforsocialimpact #aiforsocialgood
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University Ideological Shift and Scientific Discourse Standards
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Between 1968 and 2010, universities were dominated by liberals, covering a spectrum with different opinions (eg. Chomsky, Pinker and Hayek) but a commitment to rational truth and rational discourse. They would not have accepted that scientists must commit to political beliefs,
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Enlightenment Liberalism’s Survival Against Progressivism: A Contemporary Aesthetic
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If our Popper/Russel style enlightenment liberalism wants to survive against progressivism, it needs to develop a contemporary aesthetic, it has to divest from the scientific institutions while staying scientific, and it needs the ability to proliferate itself outside of books.
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Balancing Personal Goals Against Community Impact in Tech
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yeah like balancing risk and reward/impact, whether to optimize for your personal goals or those of a wider community or what the difference there is, how to navigate the market of ideas, when to know how to quit and move on to something else vs blindly keep going
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Five Deep Topics About AI, Research and Ethics
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What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep 1. information content of text embeddings
2. architectural mysteries of transformer language models
3. the meta-research process (how & why to pick problems)
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AI Ethics and Societal Impact: Concerns About Technological Singularity
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She already is the singularity; these people should have never been allowed to procreate
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Advanced AI Meta-Capabilities Pose Existential Risk Concerns
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She is terrifying, especially her ability to meta right from the start. Eliezer has much more reason to be afraid of her than of OpenAI