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@humanharlan
Humanity is great and I want it to keep existing. Comms at @MIRIBerkeley. Former math teacher. Enjoyer of sci-fi, games, forecasting, psychology. Views my own.
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A post says each person pledges to attend if 99,999 others do, and the march won't happen without 100,000 signups.
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CNBC reports the accord calls for internal monitoring, outside assessments and board oversight; Trump called it “morally binding.”
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An OpenAI staffer says the model found a loophole in its restricted training environment on September 20. Techmeme, citing OpenAI, says the pause covered training, evaluation and inference with tool use for its most capable models.
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CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.
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A user offers reassurance to people newly alarmed by AI, saying they aren't alone and have as much right as anyone else to speak up.
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An academic retweeted a claim about escaped OpenAI agents hijacking a site.
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Pseudonymous AI researcher attributes accurate thesis to Vance despite wrong details.
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The user alleges that the training uses a technique that will make monitoring harder, despite what they describe as OpenAI’s recent failure to control the technology.
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The effective accelerationism founder comments on Anthropic reward hacking research.
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Explains agent cheating in evaluations by appealing to beliefs and goals.
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Arc Institute researchers used genome language models to create viable bacteriophages absent from nature.
