On “Model Organisms”
This post was written while working for Arcadia Impact's Alignment Team (and grew out of an internal talk I gave) but is my own opinion and not theirs. I am grateful for feedback from Daniel Tan and the rest of the team.This post was originally going to be more heavily about “model organisms” in AI safety research. But Francis Rhys Ward already wrote an excellent taxonomy which mostly covers that. So this is mostly about the history of the terms we're using, and about biology.[1]TL;DR what are y
By J Bostock