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1/ Hundreds of contractors posed as teenagers to test how rival chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini handle prompts about suicide and self harm. The project was run for Meta. buff.ly/Auslrgh
I joined over 200 economists and AI researchers in signing "We Must Act Now" a statement on AI's transformation of the economy. AI could reshape the economy at unprecedented speed. The opportunities are enormous and so are the challenges. We need to start preparing our institu…
@sethlazar.org, @nickacaputo.bsky.social, and I are building Governing the AI Transition, a new Johns Hopkins SGP initiative to help society navigate the transition to powerful AI. We're hiring a Director to build it with us. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves, please app…
Andrew Freedman [tag] and I discuss in Fortune how the Obenornolte-Trahan bipartisan proposal in Congress, the FRONTIER Act, would begin building an effective ecosystem of independent verifiers that would help ensure events like this can't be kept secret in the AI industry. bu…
So thrilled for Karolina Stańczak, presenting our paper at FAccT today. You cannot write a complete contract for an AI, and we never wrote one for ourselves either. Norms, markets, and law fill that gap, and the paper asks what alignment could learn from them. Read here: arxiv…
In a new essay, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for mandatory third-party testing of frontier AI models, with the government empowered to block unsafe deployments. One way to do it, in his words: a regulatory markets approach. His co-founder Jack Clark and I proposed that in …
Over half of internet traffic is now non-human. With Dan Hendrycks and Leo Wu, I look at agent IDs, deployment cards, personhood, and payments. It mostly comes down to how much we let agents do and how much oversight we keep. buff.ly/AQjYo3k
Over half of internet traffic is now non-human. With Dan Hendrycks and Leo Wu, I look at agent IDs, deployment cards, personhood, and payments. It mostly comes down to how much we let agents do and how much oversight we keep. buff.ly/AQjYo3k
Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
I spoke to TIME about the Hugging Face incident and AI agents. If you said we're building new members of a group, our group, you'd build them differently than you're building them now. Alignment is not just an engineering problem. It's fundamentally institutional. buff.ly/YO18tlS
I spoke to TIME about the Hugging Face incident and AI agents. If you said we're building new members of a group, our group, you'd build them differently than you're building them now. Alignment is not just an engineering problem. It's fundamentally institutional. buff.ly/YO18tlS
1/ Illinois just became the first state to require frontier AI developers to undergo annual third-party audits. Gov. Pritzker signed the AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315) this week, going beyond California and New York, which only require published frameworks and incident reports.
Applications are open for a new AGI Governance Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, led by @sethlazar.org, Nicholas Caputo, and me. Three weeks in DC this September, in person, for early-career people already in AI governance. A capstone for the next generation, not an entry point.
I've been thinking about how to govern powerful AI for about ten years. I wasn't all that worried until the last six months. More worried in the last two months. More worried in the last week. Regulatory markets and IVOs are what we should be doing. I'm hoping it's not too late.
People ask me what happened. We've been building AI for 80 years. The key thing: humans stopped writing the rules. With machine learning we show the machine the data and it writes its own program. That moved us back a step from controlling these systems, and now AI is helping build the next AI.
Letting evaluators into AI labs isn't oversight when the lab picks them, sets their access and can show them the door. To do the job right, evaluators need serious oversight. Who decides they're qualified? What keeps them independent? What happens if they do the job badly?
1/ AI agents that can sign contracts on your behalf, hire employees, set prices, and move your money around are being heavily invested in by AI companies. But what I want to call attention to, what happens if an agent sells you faulty goods or runs off with your deposit?
Thank you to Governor Newsom for asking me to join the group of experts advising California on AI safety and security governance.
1/ Air Canada had to honor a discount its chatbot invented. The liability caused by AI agents is landing on policies written by an insurance industry that never planned for them.
I signed this open letter on AI and cybersecurity with 400+ AI and security researchers. The recent sandbox escapes were a security lapse, but also an alignment failure.
The first AGI Governance Fellowship cohort on their last day at Johns Hopkins, after their group project presentations. Three weeks of hard questions on the institutions we'll need for powerful AI. A great group. Thanks to the fellows, @sethlazar.org, @nickacaputo.bsky.social and all who joined us.
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