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Cosmos Institute launches a research group to study how frontier AI affects free societies and democratic institutions

The group includes senior fellows from DeepMind and academia.

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Kevin Frazier@KevinTFrazier

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Kudos to @cosmos_inst for assembling this group and for tackling some important questions. Here's a summary of the motivation behind launching this Research Group (ft. @sebkrier, @ahall_research, and many others!!):

"The institutions of a free society allow people to govern themselves. From media that permits expression to markets that enable the open exchange of goods and services, institutions help us flourish as individuals and in tandem with others.

AI is changing their foundational assumptions. By lowering the cost of expression, persuasion, inquiry, delegation, and coordination, these systems are modifying the character of the basic activities that liberal institutions seek to accommodate. It floods them with activity at volumes they were not designed to absorb and enables behaviors they were not designed to manage.

At stake is the capacity to deliberate about the lives we want to lead."

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A few years ago I wondered whether there was space for research that takes frontier AI development, philosophy, and liberalism seriously. It is pretty wild to be able to set up the Cosmos Research Group to do that with some of the thinkers I respect the most

We're working on things like:

- Normative dispositions in base models - Falsification in LLMs for science - Instrumentalism and AI character design - Self-constitution and reflective endorsement - Institutional arrangements and frontier practice

Will be sharing more, including opportunities to work with us, in the coming weeks

Cosmos Institute@cosmos_inst

Announcing our new Senior Research Fellows!

Joining us from frontier labs and the academy, they'll help us to open new lines of inquiry, shape our research agenda, and connect philosophical questions to technical choices that determine what AI is and how it will be used. 🧵

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Séb Krier@sebkrier

@KevinTFrazier @cosmos_inst @ahall_research Thank you! 🫡

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