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Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Storing Food

via LessWrong AI [4] — I think more people should be storing a substantial amount of food. It's not likely you'll need it, but as with reusable masks the cost is low enough I think it's usually worth it. It's hard for me to really imagine living through a famine. The world as I h

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Reporting Tasks as Reward-Hackable: Better Than Inoculation Prompting?

via LessWrong AI — Making honesty the best policy during RL reasoning training. Reward hacking during Reinforcement Learning in insecure or hackably-judged training environments not only allows the model to get higher rewards without doing the intended tasku2026

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

If you don't feel deeply confused about AGI risk, something's wrong

via LessWrong AI [7] — I don't think I'm saying anything new, but I think it's worth repeating loudly. My sample is skewed toward AI governance fellows; I've interacted with fewer technical AI safety researchers, so my inferences are fuzzier there. I more strongly endorse this argument for the…

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

The Spectre haunting the "AI Safety" Community

via LessWrong AI [13] — ’m the originator behind ControlAI’s Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence.My diagnosis is simple: most laypeople and policy makers have not heard of AGI, ASI, extinction risks, or what it takes to pr

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Announcement: Iliad Intensive + Iliad Fellowship

via LessWrong AI — Iliad is proud to announce that applications are now open for the Iliad Intensive and the Iliad Fellowship! These programs, taken together, are our evolution of the PIBBSS × Iliad Research Residency pilot.The Iliad Intensive will cover taught coursework, serving as a widely…

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Alignment to Evil

via LessWrong AI [4] — One seemingly-necessary condition for a research organization that creates artificial superintelligence (ASI) to eventually lead to a utopia1 is that the organization has a commitment to the common good. ASI can rearrange the world to hit any narrow target, and if the…

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

New video from Palisade Research: No One Understands Why AI Works

via LessWrong AI — Palisade Research have released out a long-form video about the history of AI and how no one understands modern AI systems. The video was made by Petr Lebedev, Palisade's Science Communication lead. The main goal is to get people to understand what “AIs aren’t programmed, they’re…

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

AI #156 Part 2: Errors in Rhetoric

via Substack Zvi — Things that are being pushed into the future right now:

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