@davidskrueger
Raising AI risk awareness at http://evitable.com AI prof at Mila. Formerly Cambridge, DeepMind, UK AISI. http://therealartificialintelligence.substack.com
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Politico reports Anthropic wrote the proposed bill itself; the draft would preempt some state AI safety laws.
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Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata argues that modern tools reveal most neurons as legible in models up to trillions of parameters.
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A repost quotes the writer’s impression that many researchers are worried.
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One user says Pangram called the A–B pair 100% human and the A–C and B–C pairs 100% AI.
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A post argues that small shifts from repeated AI interactions could be amplified by conversations and social feedback loops.
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A user says there is evidence of pro-AI bias and argues its possible effect on people gets little attention.
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A post argues the danger isn't AI defying its programming; it's that learned 'programs' remain poorly understood.
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A user calls reinforcement learning dangerous, comparing it to “the ends justify the means” written down in math.
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A researcher says existing models could keep running at scale, limiting the immediate economic hit of a pause.
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A commenter says the paper proposes repurposing the AI compute supply chain rather than dismantling it.
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One commenter says models have superhuman cyber capabilities but doubts intelligence-as-superpower applies to winning battles or elections.
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A poster argues that keeping AI work public and progressively spreading capabilities would help harden systems.
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A researcher says the three wrote to OpenAI leadership and believes they were fired for prioritizing safety.
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A post criticizes a take by Yoshua, arguing that frontier labs need people who prioritize safety right now.
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A poster says they expect economic effects over the next two years if AI is paused for 10 years.
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Krueger says we don't know how to make the most competitive AIs safe and argues that regulation falls short.
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A user asks the question without explaining what “it” refers to in the post’s text.
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A user quoted another post and wrote, “I feel so seen! 🤣”
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A user calls the article excellent and singles out its ending for discussing what they call the “most important question of aliens.”
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A user recommends a LessWrong piece to people working on alignment at AI companies.