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Are you looking for a project where you could substantially improve indoor air quality, with benefits both to general health and reducing pandemic risk?

I've written a bunch about air purifi…

Epistemic status: intuitive speculation with scattered mathematical justification.

My goal here is to interrogate the dream of writing a beautiful algorithm for intelligence and thereby ensuring saf…

"If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies." - Epictetus

"Whatever suffering arises, all arises d…

Epistemic status: thing people have told me that seems right. Also primarily relevant to US audiences. Also I am speaking in my personal capacity and not representing any employer, present or past.

There should be a community oriented towards the genomic emancipation of humanity. There isn't such a community, but there should be. It's a future worth investing our hope in—a future where parents…

How much should we expect AI progress to speed up after fully automating AI R&D? This post presents an intuition pump for reasoning about the level of acceleration by talking about different hypothe…

Audio note: this article contains 32 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

This post presents a mildl…

Why is conflict resolution hard?

I talk to a lot of event organizers and community managers. Handling conflict is consistently one of the things they find the most stressful, difficult, or time cons…

In the future, we will want to use powerful AIs on critical tasks such as doing AI safety and security R&D, dangerous capability evaluations, red-teaming safety protocols, or monitoring other powerf…

For months, I had the feeling: something is wrong. Some core part of myself had gone missing.

I had words and ideas cached, which pointed back to the missing part.

There was the story of Benjamin Je…

Your voice has been heard. OpenAI has ‘heard from the Attorney Generals’ of Delaware and California, and as a result the OpenAI nonprofit will retain control of OpenAI under their new plan, and both…

Some people (the “Boubas”) don’t like “chemicals” in their food. But other people (the “Kikis”) are like, “uh, everything is chemicals, what do you even mean?”

The Boubas are usi…

I am Jason Green-Lowe, the executive director of the Center for AI Policy (CAIP). Our mission is to directly convince Congress to pass strong AI safety legislation. As I explain in some detail in th…

The UK's AI Security Institute published its research agenda yesterday. This post gives more details about how the Alignment Team is thinking about our agenda.

Summary: The AISI Alignment Team focus…

Another note: Just yesterday, the same day this article was released, the New York Times put this out: Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times. I was scooped! Some…

Executive summary

• Shortages of some goods expected in the US starting later this month, because of tariffs.
• The power outage on the Iberian Peninsula was the worst in Europe since 2003, and Europe …

Introduction

Soon after we released Not All Language Model Features Are One-Dimensionally Linear, I started working with @Logan Riggs and @Jannik Brinkmann on a natural followup to the paper: could …

The OpenAI Board has an updated plan for evolving OpenAI's structure.

• OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit, and is today overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. Going forward, it will continue to…