Only the US can make us ready for AGI, but Europe just made us readier.
The EU's new Code of Practice is an incremental but important step towards managing rapid AI progress safely. My new piece explains what it does, why it matters, and why it's not enough.
In our new post, @LRudL_ and I lay out why we decided against founding an organization gathering human data for alignment researchers.
We were very pleased to see @ftxfuturefund remove the concept from their project ideas list in response!
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What are historical precedents of groups of very intelligent people taking a concern much more seriously than the average educated person and in hindsight being clearly wrong?
Is there an example analogous to AI risk now?
25K Followers 4K FollowingGeopolitics, prediction markets. If you think I'm wrong, community note me. Capital case tweets are literal, others less. I like most people when I meet them.
34K Followers 6K FollowingA mathematician/entrepreneur in social science. Tweets about psychology, society, rationality, tech, science, and philosophy. Founder of https://t.co/2YGraOwo77
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Trying to help the world navigate the potential craziness of the 21st century, currently via AI Governance and Policy at @open_phil
3K Followers 2K Following"The rules of maximizing expected value are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known." Personal account: @Kirsten3531
18K Followers 4K FollowingAI professor.
Deep Learning, AI alignment, ethics, policy, & safety.
Formerly Cambridge, Mila, Oxford, DeepMind, ElementAI, UK AISI.
AI is a really big deal.
20K Followers 9K FollowingProgramme Director @ARIA_research | accelerate mathematical modelling with AI and categorical systems theory » build safe transformative AI » cancel heat death
770 Followers 199 FollowingLove life, pursue dreams, and occasionally stop to enjoy the scenery. I am ordinary but not mediocre, and I look forward to walking with you
1K Followers 2K FollowingWIP ⋅ technoprogressive cosmist ⋅ I post about ethics in emerging technologies, political philosophy, and hacker culture ⋅ secondary account: @MLaGrangienne
5K Followers 530 FollowingI like asking hard questions, figuring out a framework for tackling them & following through relentlessly. Building an engine for processing reality @Metaculus
1K Followers 2K FollowingPrincipal researcher @GiveWell, @YaleEconomics PhD, shortstop for the AMSBL Padres. Mostly empirical research and global health/development. View my own.
594 Followers 2K Followingfoundational unsexy llm arbitrary vibe sorting infra, pay for my GPT-5-Pro and blueberries and I'll make you emperor. ex{USMA, longtermism, spiritual ecologism}
2K Followers 2K FollowingCofounder and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute @foresightinst, with an interest in longevity and life extension. Coauthor of Gaming the Future (2022).
1K Followers 680 FollowingAI Safety Research Manager @ Constellation, Anthropic Fellows, prev-MATS
Working out how to Do Big Good, but sanely!
Apologetically myself |
He/Him, 26
3K Followers 2K Following(I'm on here ~1hr/month.)
Trying to help the world navigate the potential craziness of the 21st century, currently via AI Governance and Policy at @open_phil
32K Followers 123 FollowingMechanistic Interpretability lead DeepMind. Formerly @AnthropicAI, independent. In this to reduce AI X-risk. Neural networks can be understood, let's go do it!
18K Followers 4K FollowingAI professor.
Deep Learning, AI alignment, ethics, policy, & safety.
Formerly Cambridge, Mila, Oxford, DeepMind, ElementAI, UK AISI.
AI is a really big deal.
10K Followers 797 FollowingThinking about whether AI will destroy the world at https://t.co/pMilDvd4ya. DM or email for media requests. Feedback: https://t.co/zGAm1i7SKH
50K Followers 880 FollowingAssistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.
18K Followers 1K FollowingHanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁
prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)
5K Followers 323 FollowingCEO@Redwood Research (@redwood_ai), working on technical research to reduce catastrophic risk from AI misalignment. [email protected]
2K Followers 162 FollowingI do AI Alignment Research. Currently at @METR_Evals on leave from my PhD at UC Berkeley’s @CHAI_berkeley. Opinions are my own.
11K Followers 461 FollowingHelping the world prepare for extremely powerful AI @open_phil (views my own), writer and editor of Planned Obsolescence newsletter.
3K Followers 1K FollowingProgram Officer on nuclear policy at Longview Philanthropy (https://t.co/6eU578JpPT). Opinions are my own. Twitter is a strange game, the only winning move is not to play.
29K Followers 431 FollowingProfessor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Sr. Advisor, DeepMind | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs)
2K Followers 281 FollowingCo-Founder & Senior Policy Advisor @ Secure AI Project.
MA student at @GeorgetownCSS.
Prev: @CSETgeorgetown, @ai_risks.
Creator of the beet emoji
994K Followers 3K FollowingSBF's words (mostly). Shared by a friend.
✉️ (monitored): Samuel Bankman-Fried 37244-510, FCI Terminal Island, PO Box 3007, San Pedro, CA 90733
26K Followers 574 FollowingCEO @ConjectureAI - Ex-Head of @AiEleuther - Leave me anonymous feedback: https://t.co/OJWQWKNrHk - I don't know how to save the world, but dammit I'm gonna try
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