PeterSlattery

• PeterSlattery 7 Nov 2025 14:27 UTC

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  in reply to: Christoph Hartmann 🔸’s comment on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  Yeah, I can see how that’s a bit of a dilemma. To avoid the flags, maybe you could make it a separate download or something people have to specifically email you to request.

  I can also imagine that for some people, especially those in certain jobs, the screenshots or logging features won’t be worth the risk. On that note, I decided to uninstall the tool myself, given the security considerations and the requirements from my employer.

• PeterSlattery 4 Nov 2025 16:47 UTC

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  in reply to: PeterSlattery’s comment on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  Ok, I have now read some comments where you explain the privacy below, and watched your video. I’m going to engage with the university security team and ask them what they think, and whether they feel this is appropriate to have on a work computer.

• PeterSlattery 4 Nov 2025 16:44 UTC

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  on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  I looked into this and no longer have these concerns.
  
  Thank you for this. I have some security concerns, and I am uninstalling the software after I received the message below from my university. Can you please respond here to explain?

  “IS&T Information Security received a Crowdstrike alert about some software you downloaded from donethat.ai. Presumably it was intentional, but this software comes installed with what looks like keylogger functionality. …Having a keylogger on your system is pretty risky. Even if they purport to not store data, there is always the risk that the software or your machine is compromised, and the data stream is intercepted for misuse”

  ...

  This installer wrote the following file, which is associated with keylogging functionality:

  FILE: …\node_modules\node-global-key-listener\bin\WinKeyServer.exe”
  

MIT Fu­tureTech are hiring a Post­doc­toral As­so­ci­ate to work on AI Perfor­mance and Safety

• PeterSlattery 16 May 2025 11:17 UTC

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  on: AI for An­i­mals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective

  Well done!

Cam­bridge Bos­ton Align­ment Ini­ti­a­tive Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship in AI Safety (Dead­line: May 18)

• PeterSlattery 11 May 2025 15:30 UTC

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  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: EA Funded Kick­start­ing For Good in­cu­ba­tor seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions (dead­line 23 May 2025)

  Sorry, thanks for pointing that out!

EA Funded Kick­start­ing For Good in­cu­ba­tor seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions (dead­line 23 May 2025)

• PeterSlattery 1 Apr 2025 16:15 UTC

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  in reply to: Angelina Li’s comment on: An­gelina Li’s Shortform

  Do you think that it would be better to just add a helpful or heart emoji to the post instead? I used to leave the same sorts of comments as Ben. These got downvoted occasionally. I interpreted this pattern as being due to people not appreciating these sorts of ‘thank you comments’. When emoji react were added, I therefore switched to emoji reacting, as I felt that this would achieve the same outcomes without creating the ‘noise’ of a ‘thank you comment’. However, I could go back to leaving comments if that seems like a better approach.

• PeterSlattery 28 Mar 2025 20:41 UTC

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  on: Third-wave AI safety needs so­ciopoli­ti­cal thinking

  Thanks for this. Is there a place where I can see the sources you are using here?
  
  I am particularly interested in the source for this:
  ”The other graph here is an interesting one. It’s the financial returns to IQ over two cohorts. The blue line is the older cohort, it’s from 50 years ago or something. It’s got some slope. And then the red line is a newer cohort. And that’s a much steeper slope. What that means is basically for every extra IQ point you have, in the new cohort you get about twice as much money on average for that IQ point. ”

• PeterSlattery 24 Mar 2025 12:07 UTC

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  on: Aus­trali­ans for AI Safety Launches New Elec­tion Cam­paign — Here’s How You Can Help

  Thanks for your work on this and in the past Luke and Greg! I’ve also signed the letter. I hope it has a positive impact going forward.

Public Com­ment In­vited on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Ac­tion Plan

• PeterSlattery 23 Feb 2025 14:02 UTC

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  in reply to: Ivan Burduk’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Yeah, it still seems to have some issues. To fix something, I tried to disconnect then reconnect the sync, and it has not worked since then. Currently talking to support. But very excited about a future when this works!

• PeterSlattery 17 Feb 2025 18:07 UTC

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  in reply to: JoA🔸’s comment on: Why I Think All The Species Of Sig­nifi­cantly De­bated Con­scious­ness Are Con­scious And Suffer Intensely

  Thank you. I missed that in my skim.

• PeterSlattery 6 Jan 2025 16:20 UTC

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  on: Idea: Re­pos­i­tory for AI Safety Presentations

  I think it would be useful, and believe that it doesn’t exist. I’d use the resource, and I know several others who also would. Especially, if it was slides and transcripts from good talks. Have you talked to the people behind https://​​aisafety.info/​​? This could be something they could support/​​host.
  

• PeterSlattery 3 Jan 2025 21:43 UTC

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  on: Why I Think All The Species Of Sig­nifi­cantly De­bated Con­scious­ness Are Con­scious And Suffer Intensely

  Thank you for this. I only skimmed it, and even that felt unpleasant given the implications. The main thing I wanted to ask is your view on the ethics of eating bivalves? I’m curious because you’ve clearly given a lot of thought to animal suffering.

• PeterSlattery 2 Jan 2025 19:53 UTC

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  on: How Much to Give is a Prag­matic Question

  This is extremely relevant for me as I have been thinking a lot about when to start making more serious donations. I discussed some previous blockers here which haven’t been resolved. I am therefore considering commissioning some research (ideally with others).
  
  Broadly I’m interested in better understanding the ‘donators dilemma’: if you give money now, you forego the later opportunity to ‘give better’ due to having improved information, and to ‘give more’ due to passive income. Also to benefit from increased financial security that might enable you to have more direct impact (e.g., by taking a lower paid role that has higher impact, or starting a new initiative).

  I want somebody to systematically review the literature for to capture the different arguments and trade-offs for giving now versus later. Then to create some sort of accessible decision-making tool or process that people like me can use to decide on an appropriate threshold or strategy to have WRT to giving now versus later.
  
  If anyone is also interested in funding this or knows some existing tools, then please let me know.

MIT Fu­tureTech are hiring ‍a Product and Data Vi­su­al­iza­tion De­signer

• PeterSlattery 13 Nov 2024 14:18 UTC

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  on: Con­sider donat­ing to who­ever helped you

  I like this idea, but wonder if CEA or another organization should take the lead on running something like this? Making donations to other people or informal groups is interpersonally and logistically complicated. For instance, people will often refuse a donation if offered it (or when their bank account is requested), and taking money from a person may feel like an obligation, or be misinterpreted. It could work better if they instead donate money to an org who allocates it for a person and contacts them to receive it (and donates it if they don’t accept). That organization could also have a database of credible people/​groups doing work and a general donation option for people who just want to fund movement building of a certain type.
  
  More generally, I’d like to see more effort to proactively identify and fund people who are doing good movement/​community building work. Examples: Talent scout type roles at CEA and some sort of community scan (e.g., a question in the annual community survey and post conferences about anyone who was exceptionally helpful) or input process (e.g., a form where you can notify CEA that someone was particularly helpful in a relevant way).
  
  This could also help address certain oversights. For instance, in my experience, someone can have a lot of positive impact in many regional areas without getting noticed or appropriately supported, which can significantly reduce their impact. Catherine Low and Luke Freeman were once examples of such people.

• PeterSlattery 28 Oct 2024 13:00 UTC

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  in reply to: Jamie E’s comment on: Bri­tish pub­lic per­cep­tion of ex­is­ten­tial risks

  Ok, I plan to share the PDF, so let me know when it is good to go!