The intellectual movement that calls itself longtermism is an outgrowth of Effective Altruism (EA), a utilitarianism-inspired philanthropic programme founded just over a decade ago by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill. EA, which claims to guide charitable giving to ...| Radical Philosophy
Discover Large Language Models (LLMs): what they are, why they matter, use cases and how to implement them with Fine-Tuning, RLHF and Prompt engineering.| scale.com
Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction?| The New Yorker
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.| MIT Technology Review
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible| TIME
Our list of the most promising high-impact career paths for helping others.| 80,000 Hours
AI progress may lead to transformative AI systems in the next decade, but we do not yet understand how to make such systems safe and aligned with human values. In response, we are pursuing a variety of research directions aimed at better understanding, evaluating, and aligning AI systems.| www.anthropic.com
The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism.| MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s rocketing valuation mirrors the AI frenzy it kicked off one year ago after releasing ChatGPT.| Fortune
Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.| Nautilus
Science is an enormously successful human enterprise. The study of| plato.stanford.edu
The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Stable Diffusion and other major generative AI products. The removal follows discoveries made by Stanford researchers, who found thousands instances of suspected child sexual abuse material in the dataset.| 404 Media
The x-risk campaign is primarily aimed at policymakers. The goal is to persuade them to surveil and criminalize AI development.| www.aipanic.news
AI Safety organizations constantly examine how to market “x-risk” messages to targeted audiences based on - political party affiliation, age group, gender, educational level, and residency.| www.aipanic.news
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.| Andreessen Horowitz
There's a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. But the real risk is losing the race to global AI technological superiority.| Andreessen Horowitz
The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $30 million ($10 million per year for 3 years) in general support to OpenAI. This grant initiates a partnership between the Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which Holden Karnofsky (Open Philanthropy’s Executive Director, "Holden" throughout this page) will join OpenAI's Board of Directors and, jointly with…| Open Philanthropy
We announced some changes that will accelerate our progress in AI and help us develop more capable AI systems more safely and responsibly.| Google
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.| Future of Life Institute
Why do we think that reducing risks from AI is one of the most pressing issues of our time? There are technical safety issues that we believe could, in the worst case, lead to an existential threat to humanity.| 80,000 Hours
18 or so reasons to reflexively dismiss slowing down AI and why I think they fail and leave it worth thinking seriously about.| worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com
William MacAskill’s movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?| The New Yorker