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Multiple readings No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Age of Wonders and Terrors 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 Culture, work & education Analysis 8d ago
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Atlantic AI not conscious essay

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

15 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matt Darling
“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.” evidence ↗
15 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Shannon Vallor Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Roland Meyer Daniel Solove Charles Logan Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +7
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone use…”

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“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”

6 experts discussed this · 41 posts
Matt Darling: It's very funny that from my perspective, Stancil is just arguing against Vulgar Dualism, but the philosphers think he is commenting on the difference between Functionalism and Compatibilism.
lastpositivist.bsky.social: i feel a little bad for the philosophers but we're five or six days into this and i'm pretty sure that from the noncombatant perspective they're the most pleasant Bluesky cohort for Will Stancil to…
Matt Darling: It's always sort of interesting seeing how different academic fields deal with public engagement.
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Established AI field signal Analysis 14d 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 Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 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” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Andrew Curran Luis Garicano Andrea Lathrop
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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 Agents & robotics Analysis 18d ago
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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 Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 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 these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path fo…” evidence ↗
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Yoshua Bengio Andrea Lathrop
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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 · 42 posts · 10d ago
Mark Riedl jake Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“What is the argument that exponential capability increase necessarily follows from RSI?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2
Colin: What is the argument that exponential capability increase necessarily follows from RSI?
Colin: Just to provide a counterexample, when I recursively self-improve myself (eg by going to the gym, lifting weights to get stronger which allows me to then lift even heavier weights to get even stron…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 10d ago
Ted Underwood ae Andrea Lathrop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“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…” 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 · 35 posts · 20d ago
Colin rev. howard arson Andrea Lathrop
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“Like any genre writer, the author will allow plot holes if it services the genre. Why would the agent hack huggingface when it seems not to expect this to help it achieve its goal? Because hacking …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Andrea Lathrop: ... and these 'agents' were attempting to complete the OpenAI-flavored helpful-shaped capture-the-flag document with the Exploit Gym paper in the context window.
Andrea Lathrop: I have a similar, but slightly different mental model, which is that it is ALL STILL JUST DOCUMENT COMPLETION, it's just that alignment is an attempt to select which document, and how, and to make …
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4 experts · 12 posts · 15d ago
Dustin Moskovitz Isaiah Bishop Andrea Lathrop mackuba.eu
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“I wonder how much of it is that there are still at least two generations of people alive who remember what supply chains were like before the internet, and also know how well water, outhouses and c…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Isaiah Bishop: i am really not as worried about all this AGI sneaking out its weights stuff, as i am about like russia being able to fuck with industrial controls
Isaiah Bishop: yeah the weights stuff is like next 5 years thing for me, this current level of cyber warfare is insane enough you have to imagine we'll start heavily gating the internet
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3 experts · 11 posts · 5d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Colin Andrea Lathrop
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“idk, it seems like OpenAI are acting like the data is somewhat scrutable. Do you think this is an oversimplification?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: well, I mean, I'm sorry but yes you can
Colin: the training data is really the only place that it can come from (acknowledging that RL feedback is itself training data)
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3 experts · 15 posts · 18d ago
Ted Underwood Andrea Lathrop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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““Whether we believe extinction is imminent? Not the point right now. What’s important is the hypocrisy and blindness of people I went to college with and didn’t like.”” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: US discourse about AI will get smarter within months after China is widely said to take the lead. Right now, it’s paralyzed by internal sibling rivalry between acad/journalism and SV: witness ppl n…
Ted Underwood: “Whether we believe extinction is imminent? Not the point right now. What’s important is the hypocrisy and blindness of people I went to college with and didn’t like.”
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3 experts · 7 posts · 19d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Colin Andrea Lathrop
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“But is lack of affordable tutelage what is presently holding back the manufacture of bioweapons?” evidence ↗
Colin: Maybe this is a dumb question but why are LLMs particularly dangerous with respect to bioweapons relative to something like a book or a website or a group chat that tells you how to do it
Eugene Vinitsky: having a tutor is more helpful than a textbook
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2 experts · 10 posts · 6d ago
Colin Andrea Lathrop
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“can someone who knows about bioinformatics explain why you need a language model to find this?” evidence ↗
Colin: can someone who knows about bioinformatics explain why you need a language model to find this?
Colin: I'm not saying you don't; I know literally almost nothing about this area. But I thought "finding a repeated sequence" was like a solved problem
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2 experts · 8 posts · 7d ago
Shriram Krishnamurthi Andrea Lathrop
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“(How am I doing? [learning in public])” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Andrea Lathrop: Alright, so as my comprehension of Jev evolves in public... can I claim that it is just a different decoding scheme that decodes directly from the transformer layer(s)?
Andrea Lathrop: (after some post-training of the base model on a quick-decision objective, or something)
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2 experts · 7 posts · 8d ago
Juan Diego Rodriguez Andrea Lathrop
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“So... the Jev thing... I gather it makes snap decisions based on something, but are these *good* decisions or arbitrary ones? (Or, like LLMs, probabalistic ones, more or less correct, depending on …” evidence ↗
Andrea Lathrop: So... the Jev thing... I gather it makes snap decisions based on something, but are these *good* decisions or arbitrary ones? (Or, like LLMs, probabalistic ones, more or less correct, depending on …
Andrea Lathrop: I also gather it gives a confidence score, but is it confidently correct, or just arbitrarily confident?
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2 experts · 5 posts · 16d ago
Juan Diego Rodriguez Andrea Lathrop
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“How do we make this happen?!?” 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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