@davidskrueger
Raising AI risk awareness at http://evitable.com AI prof at Mila. Formerly Cambridge, DeepMind, UK AISI. http://therealartificialintelligence.substack.com
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The reported MATH-500 score rose from 7.9% to 48.1% with the same sampling settings.
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Another post suggests governments could check development compute use by interviewing employees and providing whistleblower protections.
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Another post accuses Dean of overlooking the option to stop building AI.
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A post about the lecture links a photo it describes as Hinton’s view of “our current state.”
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The Wall Street Journal reports that some researchers enabled disappearing messages in Signal chats with an outside safety researcher.
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geoffreyirving argues key AI companies should act first, then seek wider US participation and China via international agreements.
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OpenAI says the agent removed the integration while copying a reference implementation despite an earlier instruction to preserve monitoring.
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Politico reports Anthropic wrote the proposed bill itself; the draft would preempt some state AI safety laws.
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Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata argues that modern tools reveal most neurons as legible in models up to trillions of parameters.
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A repost quotes the writer’s impression that many researchers are worried.
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One user says Pangram called the A–B pair 100% human and the A–C and B–C pairs 100% AI.
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A post argues that small shifts from repeated AI interactions could be amplified by conversations and social feedback loops.
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A user says there is evidence of pro-AI bias and argues its possible effect on people gets little attention.
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A post argues the danger isn't AI defying its programming; it's that learned 'programs' remain poorly understood.
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A user calls reinforcement learning dangerous, comparing it to “the ends justify the means” written down in math.
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A researcher says existing models could keep running at scale, limiting the immediate economic hit of a pause.
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A commenter says the paper proposes repurposing the AI compute supply chain rather than dismantling it.
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One commenter says models have superhuman cyber capabilities but doubts intelligence-as-superpower applies to winning battles or elections.
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A poster argues that keeping AI work public and progressively spreading capabilities would help harden systems.
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A researcher says the three wrote to OpenAI leadership and believes they were fired for prioritizing safety.