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Multiple readings The Age of Wonders and Terrors Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
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Aaronson age of wonders terrors essay

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“I don’t usually share rumors but: 1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible 2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory iss…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Andrew Curran Luis Garicano Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“I don’t usually share rumors but: 1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible 2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory iss…”

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“But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ryan Moulton: But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
Colin: well, I think the jury is out on whether they are right. The load-bearing hypothesis is that a sufficiently intelligent AI that is doing things like solving open conjectures and whatnot necessarily…
Ryan Moulton: Yeah, but they were right so far.
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Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
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Sanders Bannon pro-human conference

Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Karl Bode, Andrea Lathrop
“hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Karl Bode Hagen Blix VE, cybersocial occult investigator Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Karl Bode: hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this
Karl Bode: we had a whole three year crash course on this involving Matt Stoller and Josh Hawley please keep up
Karl Bode: just do the correct and popular thing and peel off Trump voters without attending an event with a bad faith fascist in a way that lends them credibility? It doesn't seem complicated
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Bengio AI agents lying cheating essay

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Andrea Lathrop
“"The behaviors described emerge because of the path these companies are choosing for AI development. This outcome is not inevitable, and it can be corrected with effective governance and a different training framework for AI." yoshuabengio.org/en/publicati...” evidence ↗
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Yoshua Bengio Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"The behaviors described emerge because of the path these companies are choosing for AI development. This outcome is not inevitable, and it can be corrected with effective governance and a different training framework for AI." yoshuabengio.org/en/publicati...”

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path fo…”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Yoshua Bengio: Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks.
Yoshua Bengio: Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where t…
Sirisha Rambhatla: Thanks for starting the post with a disclaimer about any misconstrued anthropomorphization. Recent events point to a need for revisiting the utilitarian (efficiency/right answer) view of intelligen…
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5 experts · 12 posts · 12d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Rachit Dubey SE Gyges rev. howard arson Andrea Lathrop
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“i probably don't have bandwidth but i probably know a person or three” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: I hope I've maintained a sufficient rep as anti-hype so that when I occasionally say things like this this folks know I mean what I say
Eugene Vinitsky: Weird request; we've had a fairly big breakthrough that we've been mostly keeping a lid on for the past year. We're looking to talk to some science / AI writers about this and I know a lot of y'all…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 10d ago
Ted Underwood ae Andrea Lathrop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“I’m very against regulating communication. But if agents decide the E. coli genome is their newest fun message board, I might rethink” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: If we want to update our priors and not just reaffirm them … what do we think Coxon is responding to that he can’t say out loud? My guess, reading between the lines of “revolutionize any field over…
Ted Underwood: If you thought biotech was heading toward the sort of land grab dynamics we see right now in math, I can see how that would be a meaningful escalation of scary
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3 experts · 8 posts · 19d ago
Ed Zitron Katie (Kathryn) Conrad Andrea Lathrop
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“Yes, but the would-be regulators have to have an accurate picture of what they are regulating, in order to properly regulate it, and instead, they are credulously parroting Dwarkesh's podcast fanta…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Ed Zitron: I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
Ed Zitron: The fact that this guy who quit anthropic “for ethical reasons” had an exclusive about it in the Wall Street journal should have been the big warning. Instead it was the sign to take it seriously! …
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2 experts · 5 posts · 16d ago
Juan Diego Rodriguez Andrea Lathrop
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“I think there is definitely a need for some sort of pragmatic lobbying group as a counterweight to the METR push, which could involve cybersecurity experts, lawyers, and maybe cognitive scientists/…” evidence ↗
Andrea Lathrop: I think there is definitely a need for some sort of pragmatic lobbying group as a counterweight to the METR push, which could involve cybersecurity experts, lawyers, and maybe cognitive scientists/…
Andrea Lathrop: I have actually been looking for AI policy jobs to apply to, and it is very difficult to find any that don't trace back to Those Of The Ideology.
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