You don’t need to be a ge­nius to be in AI safety research

Claire Short10 May 2023 22:23 UTC
29 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Con­flict­ing Effects of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Miti­ga­tion Interventions

Pete Rowlett10 May 2023 22:20 UTC
10 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

RIP Med­i­cal Debt

Layla S10 May 2023 20:59 UTC
0 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(ripmedicaldebt.org)

Com­mu­nity Health & Spe­cial Pro­jects: Up­dates and Con­tact­ing Us

evemccormick10 May 2023 17:35 UTC
74 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Con­tin­u­ous doesn’t mean slow

Tom_Davidson10 May 2023 12:17 UTC
64 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Towards a Global Nose to Sniff (and Snuff) Out Fu­ture Pandemics

Akash Kulgod10 May 2023 9:48 UTC
39 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Crises Re­veal Cen­tral­i­sa­tion (Ste­fan Schu­bert)

Will Howard🔹10 May 2023 9:45 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(web.archive.org)

In defence of epistemic mod­esty [dis­til­la­tion]

Luise10 May 2023 9:39 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Will take any job

Ceridwen Tran10 May 2023 9:00 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tact Per­son meetup @ EAG London

Milena Canzler🔸10 May 2023 8:40 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Psy­cholog­i­cal safety as the yard­stick of good EA move­ment building

Severin10 May 2023 7:53 UTC
66 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Why is there so lit­tle men­tion of Scan­lon, What We Owe to Each Other, and con­trac­tu­al­ism?

Joseph10 May 2023 0:14 UTC
15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

GWWC is hiring a Re­search Com­mu­ni­ca­tor!

Giving What We Can🔸9 May 2023 23:32 UTC
24 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Grounded Agency: Achieve your goals while stay­ing rooted in reality

Rasool9 May 2023 21:49 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why Not EA? [pa­per draft]

Richard Y Chappell🔸9 May 2023 19:03 UTC
48 points
71 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dropbox.com)

An­nounc­ing “Key Phenom­ena in AI Risk” (fa­cil­i­tated read­ing group)

nora9 May 2023 16:52 UTC
28 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why “just make an agent which cares only about bi­nary re­wards” doesn’t work.

Lysandre Terrisse9 May 2023 16:51 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #5: Ge­offrey Hin­ton speaks out on AI risk, the White House meets with AI labs, and Tro­jan at­tacks on lan­guage models

Center for AI Safety9 May 2023 15:26 UTC
60 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Towards In­ter­na­tion­al­ist Conservativism

freedomandutility9 May 2023 14:18 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Stampy’s AI Safety Info—New Distil­la­tions #2 [April 2023]

markov9 May 2023 13:34 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

The Effec­tive­ness of Vol­un­teer­ing for Cri­sis Sup­port Hotlines

William Spaul9 May 2023 12:33 UTC
26 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

A note of cau­tion on be­liev­ing things on a gut level

Nathan_Barnard9 May 2023 12:20 UTC
41 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

In­ter­view: Sarah Gold from Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens on liti­gat­ing for farmed an­i­mals in the United States! (re­post from Karthik Logic blog)

Karthik Palakodeti9 May 2023 10:28 UTC
25 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(karthiklogic.substack.com)

On miss­ing moods and tradeoffs

Lizka9 May 2023 10:06 UTC
51 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Most peo­ple should prob­a­bly feel safe most of the time

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2023 9:41 UTC
26 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Sum­maries of top fo­rum posts (1st to 7th May 2023)

Zoe Williams9 May 2023 9:30 UTC
18 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Virtue vs Obli­ga­tion (The Ca­plan-Singer De­bate)

Noah Topper9 May 2023 9:20 UTC
28 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(naivebayes.substack.com)

Chilean AIS Hackathon Retrospective

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸9 May 2023 1:34 UTC
67 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Analysing In­di­vi­d­ual Con­tri­bu­tions to the Me­tac­u­lus Com­mu­nity Prediction

nikos8 May 2023 22:58 UTC
28 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Aus­tralia En­vi­ron­ment x EA UQ: Sup­port­ing Effec­tive Cli­mate Char­i­ties from Australia

Michael Noetel 🔸8 May 2023 22:43 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [May 2023]

StevenKaas8 May 2023 22:30 UTC
19 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­dictable up­dat­ing about AI risk

Joe_Carlsmith8 May 2023 22:05 UTC
135 points
12 comments36 min readEA link

One form to help us build a crowd­sourced char­ity evaluator

Dawn Drescher8 May 2023 21:03 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How Eng­ineers can Effec­tively Con­tribute to Tack­ling Cli­mate Change

Jessica Wen 🔸8 May 2023 18:00 UTC
24 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Re­minder: AI Wor­ld­views Con­test Closes May 31

Jason Schukraft8 May 2023 17:40 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How The EthiSizer Al­most Broke `Story’

Velikovsky_of_Newcastle8 May 2023 16:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Books — what do you recom­mend? What are you look­ing for?

Lizka8 May 2023 16:29 UTC
25 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

EA Any­where Slack: con­soli­dat­ing pro­fes­sional and af­finity groups

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸8 May 2023 13:57 UTC
77 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

How quickly AI could trans­form the world (Tom David­son on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours8 May 2023 13:23 UTC
82 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

How “AGI” could end up be­ing many differ­ent spe­cial­ized AI’s stitched together

titotal8 May 2023 12:32 UTC
31 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Un­veiling the Amer­i­can Public Opinion on AI Mo­ra­to­rium and Govern­ment In­ter­ven­tion: The Im­pact of Me­dia Exposure

Otto8 May 2023 10:49 UTC
28 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of fu­ture R&D pro­jects and aca­demic research

Falk Lieder8 May 2023 9:58 UTC
23 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

The Re­think Pri­ori­ties Ex­is­ten­tial Se­cu­rity Team’s Strat­egy for 2023

Ben Snodin8 May 2023 8:08 UTC
92 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

A Brief & Re­cent His­tory of Fish: What I learned in a weekend

Spencer R. Ericson8 May 2023 7:58 UTC
59 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

GiveWell recom­mended char­i­ties X main­stream events

Huw Thomas8 May 2023 7:09 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Le­gend of Dr. Ogun­tola Sapara

jai8 May 2023 6:34 UTC
66 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

ALTERING TO URGENCY: EA and Africa

Daniel Ajudeonu7 May 2023 19:48 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pli­ca­tions of the White­house meet­ing with AI CEOs for AI su­per­in­tel­li­gence risk—a first-step to­wards evals?

Jamie B7 May 2023 17:33 UTC
78 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

How much would billion­aire philan­thropists need to scale up their giv­ing to meet the Giv­ing Pledge in their life­time?

Max Görlitz7 May 2023 15:32 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

On Child Wast­ing, Mega-Char­i­ties, and Mea­sura­bil­ity Bias

Jesper 🔸7 May 2023 14:55 UTC
55 points
24 comments2 min readEA link