Still no strong ev­i­dence that LLMs in­crease bioter­ror­ism risk

freedomandutility2 Nov 2023 21:23 UTC
57 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How Long Do Policy Changes Mat­ter? New Paper

zdgroff2 Nov 2023 20:53 UTC
272 points
37 comments5 min readEA link
(zachfreitasgroff.com)

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

GraceAdams2 Nov 2023 20:52 UTC
46 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EAGxVir­tual: Speaker an­nounce­ments, timings, and other up­dates

Sasha Berezhnoi2 Nov 2023 17:51 UTC
67 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Lizka2 Nov 2023 17:02 UTC
84 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

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

Center for AI Safety2 Nov 2023 15:15 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Are 1-in-5 Amer­i­cans fa­mil­iar with EA?

David_Moss2 Nov 2023 15:07 UTC
146 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Com­ple­men­tary notes on Alvea [un­offi­cial]

mxschons2 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC
70 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Drug Devel­op­ment Ex­plainer Series

mxschons2 Nov 2023 8:22 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

Up­com­ing Feed­back Op­por­tu­nity on Dual-Use Foun­da­tion Models

Chris Leong2 Nov 2023 4:30 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Public Weights?

Jeff Kaufman2 Nov 2023 2:51 UTC
20 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Tien pro­cent club Utrecht 6 november

Marisela Berkelmans1 Nov 2023 22:28 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing Typhoid Fever Hotspots with Bac­te­riophage Surveillance

emmannaemeka1 Nov 2023 22:21 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

My thoughts on the so­cial re­sponse to AI risk

Matthew_Barnett1 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC
116 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

Robert Van Buskirk1 Nov 2023 21:02 UTC
12 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Tristan Williams1 Nov 2023 18:15 UTC
5 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.judiciary.senate.gov)

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

warrenjordan1 Nov 2023 16:09 UTC
20 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_Hours1 Nov 2023 15:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

Akash1 Nov 2023 13:28 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.ft.com)

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

Nathan Young1 Nov 2023 13:16 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

kyle_fish1 Nov 2023 12:43 UTC
202 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Alvea Wind Down An­nounce­ment [Offi­cial]

kyle_fish1 Nov 2023 12:39 UTC
202 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 Institute1 Nov 2023 12:10 UTC
40 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Bletch­ley Dec­la­ra­tion on AI Safety

Hauke Hillebrandt1 Nov 2023 11:44 UTC
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 P1 Nov 2023 7:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Event] Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christian1 Nov 2023 3:01 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eventbrite.com)

Com­pu­ta­tional Ap­proaches to Pathogen Detection

Jeff Kaufman1 Nov 2023 0:36 UTC
49 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on the AI Safety Sum­mit com­pany policy re­quests and responses

So8res31 Oct 2023 23:54 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christian31 Oct 2023 21:12 UTC
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 Safety31 Oct 2023 19:24 UTC
21 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

The UK AI Safety Sum­mit tomorrow

SebastianSchmidt31 Oct 2023 19:09 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

christian.r31 Oct 2023 15:42 UTC
31 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

[Question] Let’s cel­e­brate some wins

Nathan Young31 Oct 2023 10:43 UTC
37 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Closed] Agent Foun­da­tions track in MATS

Vanessa31 Oct 2023 8:14 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.matsprogram.org)

Up­dates from Cam­paign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo31 Oct 2023 5:46 UTC
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 Leong31 Oct 2023 2:25 UTC
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 Li30 Oct 2023 21:53 UTC
119 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

M&A in AI

Hauke Hillebrandt30 Oct 2023 17:43 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

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

Jeff Kaufman30 Oct 2023 17:42 UTC
56 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

doebem: Char­ity Eval­u­a­tion and Effec­tive Giv­ing in Brazil

Bruno Sterenberg30 Oct 2023 16:14 UTC
61 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

Ryan Greenblatt30 Oct 2023 14:57 UTC
43 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Matthew Wearden30 Oct 2023 12:49 UTC
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 Duffy30 Oct 2023 12:43 UTC
120 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

Tristan Williams30 Oct 2023 11:15 UTC
143 points
8 comments3 min readEA link
(www.whitehouse.gov)

Epistemic and Statis­ti­cal Uncer­tainty in CEAs—Draft

EdoArad30 Oct 2023 10:26 UTC
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion that sup­port over­seas vol­un­teer financially

Martingale30 Oct 2023 0:00 UTC
−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 Madan29 Oct 2023 9:16 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Hauke Hillebrandt29 Oct 2023 8:38 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

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

Dawn Drescher28 Oct 2023 19:56 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link