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Audio versions of the core readings, blog posts, and papers from BlueDot courses.
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Nowcasting Epidemics of Novel Pathogens: Lessons from COVID-19
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Toward a Global Pathogen Early Warning System
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Common Terminology in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Preventing the Misuse of DNA Synthesis
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Biological Weapons Convention
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Addressing the Gap in International Norms for Biosafety
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Want to Prevent Pandemics? Stop Spillovers
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Pandemic Prevention as Fire-Fighting
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Dual Use Research of Concern in the Life Sciences: Current Issues and Controversies
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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We’re Entering a Golden Age of Engineering Biology
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Artificial Intelligence and Biological Misuse: Differentiating Risks of Language Models and Biological Design Tools
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Understanding AI-Facilitated Biological Weapon Development
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Info Hazard Guidance for Biosecurity Discussions
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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High-Risk Human-Caused Pathogen Exposure Events From 1975-2016
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Biosecurity and the Goals of This Course
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Emerging COVID-19 Success Story: Vietnam's Commitment to Containment
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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A Framework for Technical Progress on Biosecurity
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Differential Technology Development: An Innovation Governance Consideration for Navigating Technology Risks
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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ESM3: Simulating 500 Million Years of Evolution with a Language Model
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Agents: A Crucial Pandemic Tool
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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The New Bioweapons: How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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What Were the Death Tolls from Pandemics in History?
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Towards a Theory of Pandemic-Proof PPE
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Indoor Air Quality Is the Next Great Public Health Challenge
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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From Warp Speed to 100 Days
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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COVID-19: Examining the Effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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The Worst Covid Strategy Was Not Picking One
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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We Aren't Prepared for the Next Pandemic
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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The Biological Weapons Convention: An Introduction
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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AI and Leviathan: Part I
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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d/acc: One Year Later
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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AI Emergency Preparedness: Examining the Federal Government's Ability to Detect and Respond to AI-Related National Security Threats
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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A Playbook for Securing AI Model Weights
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Project: Situational Awareness
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Introduction to AI Control
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Resilience and Adaptation to Advanced AI
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Intelligence Curse
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Intelligence Curse (Sections 1-3)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What’s the Real Risk?
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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The Most Important Time in History Is Now
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Why Do People Disagree About When Powerful AI Will Arrive?
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Governance of Superintelligence
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Scaling: The State of Play in AI
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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"Long" Timelines to Advanced AI Have Gotten Crazy Short
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Preparing for Launch
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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The Gentle Singularity
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Solarpunk: A Vision for a Sustainable Future
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Seeking Stability in the Competition for AI Advantage
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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It’s Practically Impossible to Run a Big AI Company Ethically
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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In Search of a Dynamist Vision for Safe Superhuman AI
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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AI Watermarking Won’t Curb Disinformation
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Interpretability in the Wild: A Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 Small
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Weak-To-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Can We Scale Human Feedback for Complex AI Tasks?
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Machine Learning for Humans: Supervised Learning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Visualizing the Deep Learning Revolution
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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More Is Different for AI
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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A Short Introduction to Machine Learning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Four Background Claims
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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AGI Safety From First Principles
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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The Alignment Problem From a Deep Learning Perspective
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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The Easy Goal Inference Problem Is Still Hard
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Superintelligence: Instrumental Convergence
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Specification Gaming: The Flip Side of AI Ingenuity
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Learning From Human Preferences
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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What Failure Looks Like
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It’s Not Funny if I Have to Explain It
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Goal Misgeneralisation: Why Correct Specifications Aren’t Enough for Correct Goals
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Thought Experiments Provide a Third Anchor
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Where I Agree and Disagree with Eliezer
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Why AI Alignment Could Be Hard With Modern Deep Learning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Yudkowsky Contra Christiano on AI Takeoff Speeds
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Measuring Progress on Scalable Oversight for Large Language Models
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Supervising Strong Learners by Amplifying Weak Experts
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Summarizing Books With Human Feedback
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Least-To-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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AI Safety via Debate
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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AI Safety via Red Teaming Language Models With Language Models
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Robust Feature-Level Adversaries Are Interpretability Tools
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Debate Update: Obfuscated Arguments Problem
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Introduction to Logical Decision Theory for Computer Scientists
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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High-Stakes Alignment via Adversarial Training [Redwood Research Report]
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Takeaways From Our Robust Injury Classifier Project [Redwood Research]
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in Alphazero
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Feature Visualization
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Understanding Intermediate Layers Using Linear Classifier Probes
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Embedded Agents
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Logical Induction (Blog Post)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Cooperation, Conflict, and Transformative Artificial Intelligence: Sections 1 & 2 — Introduction, Strategy and Governance
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Careers in Alignment
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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We Need a Science of Evals
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Introduction to Mechanistic Interpretability
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Constitutional AI Harmlessness from AI Feedback
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Eliciting Latent Knowledge
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Deep Double Descent
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Chinchilla’s Wild Implications
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Gradient Hacking: Definitions and Examples
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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An Investigation of Model-Free Planning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Toy Models of Superposition
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Imitative Generalisation (AKA ‘Learning the Prior’)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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ABS: Scanning Neural Networks for Back-Doors by Artificial Brain Stimulation
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Two-Turn Debate Doesn’t Help Humans Answer Hard Reading Comprehension Questions
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Low-Stakes Alignment
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Empirical Findings Generalize Surprisingly Far
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Worst-Case Thinking in AI Alignment
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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How to Get Feedback
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Public by Default: How We Manage Information Visibility at Get on Board
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Writing, Briefly
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Being the (Pareto) Best in the World
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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How to Succeed as an Early-Stage Researcher: The “Lean Startup” Approach
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Become a Person who Actually Does Things
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Planning a High-Impact Career: A Summary of Everything You Need to Know in 7 Points
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Working in AI Alignment
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Computing Power and the Governance of AI
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Challenges in Evaluating AI Systems
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Emerging Processes for Frontier AI Safety
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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If-Then Commitments for AI Risk Reduction
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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This is How AI Will Transform How Science Gets Done
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Open-Sourcing Highly Capable Foundation Models: An Evaluation of Risks, Benefits, and Alternative Methods for Pursuing Open-Source Objectives
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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So You Want to be a Policy Entrepreneur?
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Considerations for Governing Open Foundation Models
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States Senate
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May 22, 2024 |
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Societal Adaptation to Advanced AI
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May 20, 2024 |
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The AI Triad and What It Means for National Security Strategy
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May 20, 2024 |
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OECD AI Principles
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May 13, 2024 |
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A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response
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May 13, 2024 |
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The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023
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May 13, 2024 |
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Key facts: UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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May 13, 2024 |
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AI Index Report 2024, Chapter 7: Policy and Governance
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May 13, 2024 |
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Recent U.S. Efforts on AI Policy
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May 13, 2024 |
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
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May 13, 2024 |
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High-level summary of the AI Act
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May 13, 2024 |
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China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made
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May 13, 2024 |
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The Policy Playbook: Building a Systems-Oriented Approach to Technology and National Security Policy
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May 05, 2024 |
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Strengthening Resilience to AI Risk: A Guide for UK Policymakers
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May 04, 2024 |
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The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences: Safeguarding Technology, Rethinking Governance, and Preventing Catastrophe
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May 03, 2024 |
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Rogue AIs
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May 01, 2024 |
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What is AI Alignment?
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May 01, 2024 |
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An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Future Risks of Frontier AI
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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What risks does AI pose?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Moore's Law for Everything
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The Transformative Potential of Artificial Intelligence
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Positive AI Economic Futures
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The Economic Potential of Generative AI: The Next Productivity Frontier
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Visualizing the Deep Learning Revolution
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May 13, 2023 |
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The AI Triad and What It Means for National Security Strategy
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May 13, 2023 |
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A Short Introduction to Machine Learning
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May 13, 2023 |
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As AI Agents Like Auto-GPT Speed up Generative AI Race, We All Need to Buckle Up
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May 13, 2023 |
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Overview of How AI Might Exacerbate Long-Running Catastrophic Risks
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May 13, 2023 |
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The Need for Work on Technical AI Alignment
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May 13, 2023 |
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Specification Gaming: The Flip Side of AI Ingenuity
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May 13, 2023 |
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Why Might Misaligned, Advanced AI Cause Catastrophe?
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May 13, 2023 |
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Emergent Deception and Emergent Optimization
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May 13, 2023 |
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AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure
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May 13, 2023 |
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Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment
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May 13, 2023 |
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Avoiding Extreme Global Vulnerability as a Core AI Governance Problem
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May 13, 2023 |
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Primer on Safety Standards and Regulations for Industrial-Scale AI Development
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May 13, 2023 |
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Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety
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May 13, 2023 |
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Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks
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May 13, 2023 |
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The State of AI in Different Countries — An Overview
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May 13, 2023 |
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Primer on AI Chips and AI Governance
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May 13, 2023 |
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Choking off China’s Access to the Future of AI
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May 13, 2023 |
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Racing Through a Minefield: The AI Deployment Problem
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May 13, 2023 |
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What Does It Take to Catch a Chinchilla? Verifying Rules on Large-Scale Neural Network Training via Compute Monitoring
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May 13, 2023 |
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A Tour of Emerging Cryptographic Technologies
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May 13, 2023 |
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Historical Case Studies of Technology Governance and International Agreements
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May 13, 2023 |
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International Institutions for Advanced AI
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May 13, 2023 |
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OpenAI Charter
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May 13, 2023 |
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LP Announcement by OpenAI
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May 13, 2023 |
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What AI Companies Can Do Today to Help With the Most Important Century
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May 13, 2023 |
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12 Tentative Ideas for Us AI Policy
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May 13, 2023 |
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Let’s Think About Slowing Down AI
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May 13, 2023 |
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Some Talent Needs in AI Governance
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May 13, 2023 |
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AI Governance Needs Technical Work
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May 13, 2023 |
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Career Resources on AI Strategy Research
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May 13, 2023 |
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China-Related AI Safety and Governance Paths
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May 13, 2023 |
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List of EA Funding Opportunities
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May 13, 2023 |
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My Current Impressions on Career Choice for Longtermists
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May 13, 2023 |
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AI Governance Needs Technical Work
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May 13, 2023 |