AI Safety Newslet­ter #40: Cal­ifor­nia AI Leg­is­la­tion Plus, NVIDIA De­lays Chip Pro­duc­tion, and Do AI Safety Bench­marks Ac­tu­ally Mea­sure Safety?

Center for AI Safety21 Aug 2024 18:10 UTC
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Crowd­sourc­ing The Best Ideas for Struc­tural Demo­cratic Reforms

Izzy Gainsburg21 Aug 2024 17:35 UTC
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The Life You Can Save sug­gests peo­ple earn­ing 40 to 80 k$/​year donate just 1 %

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Aug 2024 17:25 UTC
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Digest: three pa­pers that have shaped my un­der­stand­ing of the po­ten­tial for con­scious­ness in AI systems

rileyharris21 Aug 2024 15:09 UTC
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Re­sults of an in­for­mal sur­vey on AI grantmaking

Scott Alexander21 Aug 2024 13:19 UTC
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Po­ten­tial Im­pli­ca­tions of AI on Hu­man Cog­ni­tive Evolution

Soe Lin21 Aug 2024 9:53 UTC
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Con­cern About the In­tel­li­gence Divide Due to AI

Soe Lin21 Aug 2024 9:53 UTC
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Ap­ply to Aether—In­de­pen­dent LLM Agent Safety Re­search Group

RohanS21 Aug 2024 9:40 UTC
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Car­reras con Im­pacto: Outreach Re­sults Among Latin Amer­i­can Students

SMalagon21 Aug 2024 5:10 UTC
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Green ba­sic in­come and health taxes as a way for sys­temic change

UlfJohansson20 Aug 2024 19:11 UTC
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Ex­plicit Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸20 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC
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(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Danger­ous ca­pa­bil­ity tests should be harder

Luca Righetti 🔸20 Aug 2024 16:11 UTC
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(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

A new in­ter­view se­ries with peo­ple do­ing im­pact­ful work

Probably Good20 Aug 2024 15:23 UTC
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En­courag­ing a he­do­nium shock­wave as a long term cause area

Felix Bauer20 Aug 2024 13:24 UTC
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CEA will con­tinue to take a “prin­ci­ples-first” ap­proach to EA

Zachary Robinson🔸20 Aug 2024 11:15 UTC
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[Video] Why SB-1047 de­serves a fairer debate

Yadav20 Aug 2024 10:38 UTC
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A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

Molly Hickman20 Aug 2024 9:23 UTC
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Defin­ing al­ign­ment research

richard_ngo19 Aug 2024 22:49 UTC
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Will we ever run out of new jobs?

Kevin Kohler19 Aug 2024 15:03 UTC
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(machinocene.substack.com)

Quick look: ap­pli­ca­tions of chaos theory

Elizabeth19 Aug 2024 14:07 UTC
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EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Au­gust 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹19 Aug 2024 12:04 UTC
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(Prob­a­bly Flawed) Solu­tion to ca­sual EAs try­ing to max­i­mize im­pact un­der un­cer­tainty and confusion

InfiniteElephant19 Aug 2024 11:28 UTC
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[Question] If AI is in a bub­ble and the bub­ble bursts, what would you do?

Remmelt19 Aug 2024 10:56 UTC
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Think­ing About Propen­sity Evaluations

Maxime_Riche19 Aug 2024 9:24 UTC
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A Tax­on­omy Of AI Sys­tem Evaluations

Maxime_Riche19 Aug 2024 9:08 UTC
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AMA with AIM’s Direc­tor of Re­cruit­ment (and MHI co-founder), Ben Williamson

Ben Williamson19 Aug 2024 7:03 UTC
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Some­thing Is Lost When AI Makes Art

utilistrutil18 Aug 2024 22:53 UTC
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Scal­ing Laws and Likely Limits to AI

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2024 17:19 UTC
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Are We Leav­ing the In­di­vi­d­ual Be­hind? The Role of An­i­mal Sto­ry­tel­ling in the An­i­mal Rights Movement

Ronen Bar18 Aug 2024 13:03 UTC
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Prob­lem: Guaran­tee­ing the right to life for ev­ery­one, in the in­finitely long term (part 1)

lamparita18 Aug 2024 12:13 UTC
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De­cod­ing Repub­li­can AI Policy: In­sights from 10 Key Ar­ti­cles from Mid-2024

anonymous00718 Aug 2024 9:48 UTC
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Does “Ul­ti­mate Neart­er­mism” via Eter­nal In­fla­tion dom­i­nate Longter­mism in ex­pec­ta­tion?

Jordan Arel17 Aug 2024 22:09 UTC
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The Bar for Con­tribut­ing to AI Safety is Lower than You Think

Chris Leong17 Aug 2024 10:52 UTC
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Open Philan­thropy is hiring peo­ple to… help hire more peo­ple!

maura16 Aug 2024 22:37 UTC
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Un­jour­nal wants YOU: to do an eval­u­a­tion. Pilot­ing “In­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tions” – (up­dated, with kick­starter bounty)

david_reinstein16 Aug 2024 20:26 UTC
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(docs.google.com)

The Tech In­dus­try is the Biggest Blocker to Mean­ingful AI Safety Regulations

Garrison16 Aug 2024 19:37 UTC
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(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

#196 – The edge cases of sen­tience and why they mat­ter (Jonathan Birch on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours16 Aug 2024 19:07 UTC
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Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing is a Life Hack

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Aug 2024 16:01 UTC
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(mindmeandering.substack.com)

AI Safety In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram—Ap­pli­ca­tions Open

Catalyze Impact16 Aug 2024 15:37 UTC
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This chart is right. Most in­ter­ven­tions don’t do much. (Cameroon ex­pe­rience)

EffectiveHelp - Cameroon16 Aug 2024 14:29 UTC
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Cri­tique our po­si­tion – Sickle cell anaemia in sub-Sa­haran Africa (Cameroon)

EffectiveHelp - Cameroon16 Aug 2024 14:29 UTC
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Shar­ing the AI Wind­fall: A Strate­gic Ap­proach to In­ter­na­tional Benefit-Sharing

michel16 Aug 2024 12:54 UTC
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(wrtaigovernance.substack.com)

How much is 1.8 mil­lion years of work?

rosehadshar16 Aug 2024 12:35 UTC
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Demis Hass­abis — Google Deep­Mind: The Podcast

Zach Stein-Perlman16 Aug 2024 0:00 UTC
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(www.youtube.com)

CEA is hiring a Head of Oper­a­tions (ap­pli­ca­tions closed early)

JP Addison🔸15 Aug 2024 23:07 UTC
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(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

My ar­ti­cle in The Na­tion — Cal­ifor­nia’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Mo­ment for the Industry

Garrison15 Aug 2024 19:25 UTC
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(www.thenation.com)

Re­port: The Bro­ken State of An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy in Universities

Dr Faraz Harsini15 Aug 2024 16:09 UTC
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RFP for High-Im­pact Men­tal Health Projects

wtroy15 Aug 2024 14:35 UTC
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Ten ar­gu­ments that AI is an ex­is­ten­tial risk

Katja_Grace14 Aug 2024 21:51 UTC
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How to have high im­pact conversations

Michelle_Hutchinson14 Aug 2024 12:38 UTC
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