ThomasW

Karma: 3,683

AI governance/grantmaking. Formerly at the Center for AI Safety and Yale EA organizer.

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Center for AI Safety15 Aug 2023 21:52 UTC

37 points

1 comment13 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

[MLSN #9] Verifying large training runs, security risks from LLM access to APIs, why natural selection may favor AIs over humans

ThomasW11 Apr 2023 16:05 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.mlsafety.org)

ThomasW’s Quick takes

ThomasW28 Mar 2023 12:17 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[MLSN #8]: Mechanistic interpretability, using law to inform AI alignment, scaling laws for proxy gaming

ThomasW20 Feb 2023 16:06 UTC

25 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(newsletter.mlsafety.org)

What’s the deal with AI consciousness?

ThomasW11 Jan 2023 16:37 UTC

33 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

“AI” is an indexical

ThomasW3 Jan 2023 22:00 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Is EA an advanced, planning, strategically-aware power-seeking misaligned mesa-optimizer?

ThomasW16 Dec 2022 17:07 UTC

39 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

ML Safety Scholars Summer 2022 Retrospective

ThomasW1 Nov 2022 3:09 UTC

56 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

“A Creepy Feeling”: Nixon’s Decision to Disavow Biological Weapons

ThomasW30 Sep 2022 15:17 UTC

48 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

Cover story on EA in Time magazine

ThomasW10 Aug 2022 15:26 UTC

94 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Announcing the Introduction to ML Safety Course

ThomasW6 Aug 2022 2:50 UTC

136 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

$20K in Bounties for AI Safety Public Materials

ThomasW5 Aug 2022 2:57 UTC

45 points

11 comments6 min readEA link

Dialectic of Enlightenment

ThomasW15 Jun 2022 4:58 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(monoskop.org)

You Don’t Need To Justify Everything

ThomasW12 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC

139 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

Open Problems in AI X-Risk [PAIS #5]

ThomasW10 Jun 2022 2:22 UTC

44 points

1 comment36 min readEA link

Perform Tractable Research While Avoiding Capabilities Externalities [Pragmatic AI Safety #4]

ThomasW30 May 2022 20:37 UTC

33 points

1 comment26 min readEA link

Complex Systems for AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #3]

ThomasW24 May 2022 0:04 UTC

49 points

6 comments21 min readEA link

EA Housing Slack

ThomasW14 May 2022 20:16 UTC

38 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Look Out The Window

ThomasW12 May 2022 21:16 UTC

74 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

A Bird’s Eye View of the ML Field [Pragmatic AI Safety #2]

ThomasW9 May 2022 17:15 UTC

97 points

2 comments36 min readEA link