It's a symbiotic relationship: AI doomers need AI hype in order to be taken seriously and be part of the discourse, and AI hypers need AI doom narratives for AI to look momentous and world-altering.
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AI Mental Health Systems: Data Privacy and APA Compliance Measures
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How are they protecting prisoner’s data? And what measures are the psychiatrist(s) taking to ensure they’re following mental health guidelines from APA or other trusted orgs? And thanks.
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Universal Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models Study
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Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models by @andyzou_jiaming et al. is wild. “Adversarial prompts generated by our approach are quite transferable, including to black-box, publicly released LLMs.” https://
arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043 https://
github.com/llm-attacks/ll
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Favorite Discussion on LLM Jailbreaks and Adversarial Attacks
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My favorite part is the discussion about jailbreaks and adversarial attacks on LLMs near the end!
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Should AI Weight Known False Evidence in Reasoning?
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Do you give 10% weight to a proof that you know is wrong?
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Collective Defense Against Existential AI Risks
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The answer is no, with any budget.
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Flawed Logic in Scientific Opinion Formation and Consensus
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I'd like to respectfully point out that the logic in this argument is based on a flawed model for how scientists think. Scientists don't just take a weighted average of others' opinions to form their own. A good scientist takes as input lots of data, including others' opinions,
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Reinforcement Learning Applied to Encrypted Data Security
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Reinforcement Learning on Encrypted Data Jesu et al.: https://
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P(doom) Metrics Meaningless: Always Trending Toward 100 Percent
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The percentage given for P(doom) is essentially meaningless – it's always heading towards 100%, much like a loading bar.