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New AI field signal Analysis 10h ago
Pacing the Frontier newsletter essay

Pacing the Frontier

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Yoshua Bengio
“1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer wa…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer wa…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." www.pacingthefrontier.com”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“You might be mad at people for building a machine. You might doubt their assertions about what it can do. When they admit to having lost control of their machine and ask for help to slow down and establish control, it's not in your interest to dismiss their…”

Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · SE Gyges
“this is 2023, the most powerful open source llm is llama 2, and dario's position is that open source is a bioterrorism risk i am pretty sure they are, in fact, in that corner, they just try to filter which things they say in public www.judiciary.senate.gov/…” evidence ↗
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“this is 2023, the most powerful open source llm is llama 2, and dario's position is that open source is a bioterrorism risk i am pretty sure they are, in fact, in that corner, they just try to filter which things they say in public www.judiciary.senate.gov/…”

3 experts discussed this · 28 posts
SE Gyges: good morning jensen huang, ceo of nvidia, browbeat everyone in ai to sign a letter saying that open source and open research are generally good things everyone but anthropic has signed currently. o…
SE Gyges: imagine google reading the room and figuring out how to "yes, and" a letter of platitudes faster than you
SE Gyges: i don't even mean to insult the letter! the things it says are all true and clearly need to be said. sometimes you gotta say ten true and obvious things in a row on company letterhead but, it shoul…
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4 experts · 46 posts · 8d ago
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“Exploiting software is a classic dual-use capability. Exploiting software can be useful to break into systems, but it can also be useful for finding weaknesses in software to fix those issues. Beca…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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5 experts · 23 posts · 4d ago
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“don’t worry now it is “safe”” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2
Dustin Moskovitz: Apparently the government is against moving the AI frontier until jailbreaks are solved. For the uninitiated, jailbreaks have existed since the beginning and as far as we know so far, cannot be sol…
Grace: I’m so curious what the actual jailbreak is
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3 experts · 25 posts · 19h ago
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“"AI is so dangerous we must have a plan for USG to deliberately intervene to pace it" and "it is important to have open-weight models that are not controllable by anyone (e.g. to pace it)" seem to …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…
SE Gyges: fundamentally this is an anthropic thing that managed to recruit some people from other companies
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4 experts · 26 posts · 5d ago
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“in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and …” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and …
SE Gyges: i cannot explain the timeline better than Rohit here it is literally impossible to have made Kimi K3 off of Fable outputs on this timeline
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