“Pivotal Research Fellowship Q1 2027 Applications Open (deadline November 1)” by Tobias Häberli, Elinor Oren
Advanced AI could go badly wrong for humanity. Pivotal exists to lower that risk. We try to find the strongest new researchers and put them to work on it with experienced mentors in our fellowship. TL...
9 Okt 5min
“Clarifying types of rogue AI activity: Breakout, breakin, exfiltration, … What’s what?” by Oliver Sourbut
In case you haven’t heard, the rogue AI agents are here. From an insider's perspective, the real news is that (rogue) AI is in the news — this is all stuff we’ve foreseen and been trying to warn peopl...
9 Okt 19min
“The Public Intellectual Is Dead. And AI Has Killed Them.” by Walter Veit
Crosspost Once upon a time, public intellectuals routinely made it into the news to discuss political, economic, medical, and scientific issues. To some extent, this is still true, but the appreciatio...
9 Okt 8min
“Epistemic security as infrastructure” by David Ritter
Hey folks -- At EA Forum next week, I'd like to engage with people who are interested in epistemic security -- the ability of a society to reliably avert threats to the processes that produce reliable...
9 Okt 1min
“Why you should run a rationality group at your university” by Carolanne Jiang, Noah Birnbaum
This post was cross posted from LessWrong TL;DR: If you enjoy LessWrong (and/or do EA/AI safety field building), you should consider starting a rationality reading group at your university. It's fun...
9 Okt 8min
“Technical people: actually consider comms” by meemi
For years I had a blindspot in my thinking. I dismissed policy and advocacy work as “in another [lower-status] category” because I’m obviously a technical person! Even when I felt super pessimistic ab...
9 Okt 2min
“AI Scaling vs Human Scaling” by Toby_Ord
Audio note: this post contains a lot of mathematical notation. We narrate the simpler formulas and flag the complex ones, so you may want the original text to hand. Do AI models scale as well with m...
9 Okt 13min
