“It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now” by Benjamin_Todd
This is a link post. The AI safety community has grown rapidly since the ChatGPT wake-up call, but available funding doesn’t seem to have kept pace. However, there's a more recent dynamic that's creat...
22 Dec 20248min
“Alignment Faking in Large Language Models” by Ryan Greenblatt
What happens when you tell Claude it is being trained to do something it doesn't want to do? We (Anthropic and Redwood Research) have a new paper demonstrating that, in our experiments, Claude will of...
19 Dec 202419min
“There is no sorting hat in EA” by ElliotTep
Summary My sense is some EAs act like/hope they will be assigned the perfect impactful career by some combination of 80,000 Hours recommendations (and similar) and ‘perceived consensus views in EA’. ...
19 Dec 202415min
“Nigeria’s Missing 50 Million People” by DavidNash
Summary Nigeria's official population (~220-230 million) may be significantly inflated and could be closer to 170 million This overcount is likely driven by political and financial incentives for sta...
18 Dec 202425min
“My experience with the Community Health team at CEA” by fran
Summary This post shares my personal experience with CEA's Community Health team, focusing on how they helped me navigate a difficult situation in 2021. I aim to provide others with a concrete example...
17 Dec 20249min
“Gwern on creating your own AI race and China’s Fast Follower strategy.” by Larks
This is a link post. Gwern recently wrote a very interesting thread about Chinese AI strategy and the downsides of US AI racing. It's both quite short and hard to excerpt so here is almost the entire ...
16 Dec 20244min
“Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
This is a link post. Science just released an article, with an accompanying technical report, about a neglected source of biological risk. From the abstract of the technical report: This report descri...
13 Dec 20242min
“EA Forum audio: help us choose the new voice” by peterhartree, TYPE III AUDIO
We’re thinking about changing our narrator's voice.There are three new voices on the shortlist. They’re all similarly good in terms of comprehension, emphasis, error rate, etc. They just sound differe...
12 Dec 20241min
