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Séb Krier, Google DeepMind AGI policy lead, jokes that AI safety researchers operate like a secretive Rosicrucian order

The satire targets the community's secrecy and exclusive circles.

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Do you: - Believe your work is necessary to save the world? - Possess hidden knowledge ordinary people could not understand? - Attend confidential gatherings of like-minded brethren? - Collect esoteric texts on demonic behaviour? - Negotiate with the clergy and centres of power? - Defer to the authority of an inner circle? Then you're not an Al safety researcher. You're a Rosicrucian with compute.

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Do you: - Believe your work is necessary to save the world? - Possess hidden knowledge ordinary people could not understand? - Attend confidential gatherings of like-minded brethren? - Collect esoteric texts on demonic behaviour? - Negotiate with the clergy and centres of power? - Defer to the authority of an inner circle? Then you're not an Al safety researcher. You're a Rosicrucian with compute.

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