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Things are relatively quiet on the AI front, so I figured it's time to check in on some other things that have been going on, including various developments at the FDA.

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* FDA Reformandum Est.

* FDA Delenda Est.

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This is a rough draft I'm posting here for feedback. If people like it, a version of it might make it into the next scenario report we write.

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We think it's important for decisionmakers to track whether and when they are handing off to AI syst... more

In this post, I’m trying to put forward a narrow, pedagogical point, one that comes up mainly when I’m arguing in favor of LLMs having limitations that human learning does not. (E.g. here, here, here.)

See the bottom of the post for a list of subte... more

I see people repeatedly make the mistake of referencing a very low liquidity prediction market and using it to make a nontrivial point. Usually the implication when a market is cited is that it's number should be taken somewhat seriously, that it's g... more

AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open

TL;DR: We hypothesize that most alignment researchers have more ideas than they have engineering bandwidth to test. AICRAFT is a DARPA-funded project that pairs researchers with a f... more

I am monitoring surveillance camera V84A. A tall man is walking towards me. He is roughly twenty-five. His name is Damion Prescott. He has a room booked for a whole month. His facial symmetry scores show he is in the 99th percentile. This is in acco... more

Models that appear aligned under black-box evaluation may conceal substantial latent misalignment beneath their observable behavior.

Let's say you downloaded a language model from Huggingface. You do all the blackbox evaluation for the safety/align... more

Previously: Is GDP a Kind of Factory?

There is a word, "convergence," which economists use when they want to say that poor countries are becoming less poor relative to rich ones. There is a phrase, "the resource curse," for the tendency of countri... more

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