Still no strong ev­i­dence that LLMs in­crease bioter­ror­ism risk

freedomandutilityNov 2, 2023, 9:23 PM
58 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How Long Do Policy Changes Mat­ter? New Paper

zdgroffNov 2, 2023, 8:53 PM
276 points
37 comments5 min readEA link
(zachfreitasgroff.com)

Pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Giv­ing this Giv­ing Sea­son: For groups, net­works and individuals

GraceAdams🔸Nov 2, 2023, 8:52 PM
46 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EAGxVir­tual: Speaker an­nounce­ments, timings, and other up­dates

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸Nov 2, 2023, 5:51 PM
67 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Par­ti­ci­pate in the Dona­tion Elec­tion and the first weekly theme (start­ing 7 Novem­ber)

LizkaNov 2, 2023, 5:02 PM
85 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Cen­ter for AI Safety’s Bi-Weekly Read­ing and Learning

Center for AI SafetyNov 2, 2023, 3:15 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Are 1-in-5 Amer­i­cans fa­mil­iar with EA?

David_MossNov 2, 2023, 3:07 PM
146 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Com­ple­men­tary notes on Alvea [un­offi­cial]

mxschonsNov 2, 2023, 9:21 AM
70 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Drug Devel­op­ment Ex­plainer Series

mxschonsNov 2, 2023, 8:22 AM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

Up­com­ing Feed­back Op­por­tu­nity on Dual-Use Foun­da­tion Models

Chris LeongNov 2, 2023, 4:30 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Public Weights?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 2, 2023, 2:51 AM
20 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Tien pro­cent club Utrecht 6 november

Marisela BerkelmansNov 1, 2023, 10:28 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing Typhoid Fever Hotspots with Bac­te­riophage Surveillance

emmannaemekaNov 1, 2023, 10:21 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

My thoughts on the so­cial re­sponse to AI risk

Matthew_BarnettNov 1, 2023, 9:27 PM
116 points
17 comments10 min readEA link

A sim­plified cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­ma­tion method­ol­ogy for use in So­lar4Africa’s Fall-23 stu­dent projects

Robert Van BuskirkNov 1, 2023, 9:02 PM
12 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

[Con­gres­sional Hear­ing] Over­sight of A.I.: Leg­is­lat­ing on Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Tristan WilliamsNov 1, 2023, 6:15 PM
5 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.judiciary.senate.gov)

[Question] Any­one tried to mon­e­tize a hobby with the in­tent of ETG?

warrenjordanNov 1, 2023, 4:09 PM
21 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

#169 – On whether cash trans­fers cause eco­nomic growth, and keep­ing theft to ac­cept­able lev­els (Paul Nie­haus on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 1, 2023, 3:20 PM
2 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Chi­nese sci­en­tists ac­knowl­edge xrisk & call for in­ter­na­tional reg­u­la­tory body [Linkpost]

AkashNov 1, 2023, 1:28 PM
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.ft.com)

[Question] Fore­cast­ing Ques­tions: What do you want to pre­dict on AI?

Nathan YoungNov 1, 2023, 1:16 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unoffi­cial]

kyle_fishNov 1, 2023, 12:43 PM
202 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Alvea Wind Down An­nounce­ment [Offi­cial]

kyle_fishNov 1, 2023, 12:39 PM
203 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.alvea.bio)

Philo­soph­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions rele­vant to valu­ing con­tinued hu­man sur­vival: Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis, Pop­u­la­tion Ax­iol­ogy, and De­ci­sion The­ory (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 1, 2023, 12:10 PM
45 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Bletch­ley Dec­la­ra­tion on AI Safety

Hauke HillebrandtNov 1, 2023, 11:44 AM
60 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)

Part 4: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 4: Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?

Andreas PNov 1, 2023, 7:12 AM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Event] Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christianNov 1, 2023, 3:01 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eventbrite.com)

Com­pu­ta­tional Ap­proaches to Pathogen Detection

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 1, 2023, 12:36 AM
49 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Thoughts on the AI Safety Sum­mit com­pany policy re­quests and responses

So8resOct 31, 2023, 11:54 PM
42 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christianOct 31, 2023, 9:12 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #25: White House Ex­ec­u­tive Order on AI, UK AI Safety Sum­mit, and Progress on Vol­un­tary Eval­u­a­tions of AI Risks

Center for AI SafetyOct 31, 2023, 7:24 PM
21 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

The UK AI Safety Sum­mit tomorrow

SebastianSchmidtOct 31, 2023, 7:09 PM
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Global Catas­trophic Biolog­i­cal Risks: A Guide for Philan­thropists [Founders Pledge]

christian.rOct 31, 2023, 3:42 PM
32 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

[Question] Let’s cel­e­brate some wins

Nathan YoungOct 31, 2023, 10:43 AM
37 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Closed] Agent Foun­da­tions track in MATS

VanessaOct 31, 2023, 8:14 AM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.matsprogram.org)

Up­dates from Cam­paign for AI Safety

Jolyn KhooOct 31, 2023, 5:46 AM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

[Question] Is there any work on cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion that takes into ac­count timelines be­ing wor­ld­view-de­pen­dent?

Chris LeongOct 31, 2023, 2:25 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Shrimp paste might cause more an­i­mal deaths than any other food product. Who’s work­ing on this?

Angelina LiOct 30, 2023, 9:53 PM
120 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

M&A in AI

Hauke HillebrandtOct 30, 2023, 5:43 PM
9 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Will re­leas­ing the weights of large lan­guage mod­els grant wide­spread ac­cess to pan­demic agents?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 30, 2023, 5:42 PM
56 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

doebem: Char­ity Eval­u­a­tion and Effec­tive Giv­ing in Brazil

Bruno SterenbergOct 30, 2023, 4:14 PM
61 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

Ryan GreenblattOct 30, 2023, 2:57 PM
57 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Re­sponse to “Co­or­di­nated paus­ing: An eval­u­a­tion-based co­or­di­na­tion scheme for fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ers”

Matthew WeardenOct 30, 2023, 12:49 PM
7 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Is x-risk the most cost-effec­tive if we count only the next few gen­er­a­tions?

Laura DuffyOct 30, 2023, 12:43 PM
120 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Pres­i­dent Bi­den Is­sues Ex­ec­u­tive Order on Safe, Se­cure, and Trust­wor­thy Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Tristan WilliamsOct 30, 2023, 11:15 AM
143 points
8 comments3 min readEA link
(www.whitehouse.gov)

Epistemic and Statis­ti­cal Uncer­tainty in CEAs—Draft

EdoAradOct 30, 2023, 10:26 AM
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion that sup­port over­seas vol­un­teer financially

MartingaleOct 30, 2023, 12:00 AM
−11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

One-time ac­tion with long-term con­se­quences. Cal­ifor­nia cit­i­zen-led bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive to fund re­search of psychedelic-as­sisted therapy

Ivan MadanOct 29, 2023, 9:16 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The AI Boom Mainly Benefits Big Firms, but long-term, mar­kets will concentrate

Hauke HillebrandtOct 29, 2023, 8:38 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus FettesOct 28, 2023, 8:17 PM
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Re­grant up to $600,000 to AI safety pro­jects with GiveWiki

Dawn DrescherOct 28, 2023, 7:56 PM
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link