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“Public Weights?” by jefftk

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/02

While this is close to areas I work in, it's a personal post. No one reviewed this before I published it, or asked me to (or not to) write something. All mistakes are my own. A few days ago, some of my coworkers at SecureBio put out a preprint, "Will releasing the weights of future large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents?" (Gopal et. al 2023) They took Facebook/Meta's Llama-2-70B large language model (LLM) and (cheaply!) adjusted it to remove the built in

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16:08

“My thoughts on the social response to AI risk” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

A common theme implicit in many AI risk stories has been that broader society will either fail to anticipate the risks of AI until it is too late, or do little to address those risks in a serious manner. In my opinion, there are now clear signs that this assumption is false, and that society will address AI with something approaching both the attention and diligence it deserves. For example, one clear sign is Joe Biden's recent executive order on AI safety[1]. In light of recent news, it is worth

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[Linkpost] “Dario Amodei’s prepared remarks from the...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.I hope Dario's remarks to the Summit can shed some light on how we think about RSPs in general and Anthropic's RSP in particular, both of which have been discussed extensively since I shared our RSP announcement. The full text of Dario's remarks follows: Before I get into Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), it's worth explaining some of the unique challenges around measuring AI risks that led us to

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4:13

“2023 LessWrong Community Census, Request for...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

OverviewI would like there to be a LessWrong Community Census, because I had fun playing with the data from last year and there's some questions I'm curious about. It's also an entertaining site tradition. Since nobody else has stepped forward to make the community census happen, I'm getting the ball rolling. This is a request for comments, constructive criticism, careful consideration, and silly jokes on the census.Here's the draft.I'm posting this request for comments on November 1st. I'm planning

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58:45

“On the Executive Order” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

Or: I read the executive order and its fact sheet, so you don’t have to. I spent Halloween reading the entire Biden Executive Order on AI. This is the pure ‘what I saw reading the document’ post. A companion post will cover reactions to this document, but I wanted this to be a clean reference going forward. Takeaway Summary: What Does This Do? It mostly demands a lot of reports, almost entirely from within the government. A lot of government employees will be writing a lot of

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[Linkpost] “Chinese scientists acknowledge xrisk &...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

Some highlights from the article (bolding added):Several Chinese academic attendees of the summit at Bletchley Park, England, which starts on Wednesday, have signed on to a statement that warns that advanced AI will pose an “existential risk to humanity” in the coming decades.The group, which includes Andrew Yao, one of China's most prominent computer scientists, calls for the creation of an international regulatory body, the mandatory registration and auditing of advanced AI systems, the inclusion

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9:56

“Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 AI...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

Given Joe Biden seems to have become more worried about AI risk after having seen the movie, it seems worth putting my observations about it into its own post. This is what I wrote back then, except for the introduction and final note.We now must modify the paragraph about whether to see this movie. Given its new historical importance, combined with its action scenes being pretty good, if you have not yet seen it you should now probably see this movie. And of course it now deserves a much higher

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8:29

“Computational Approaches to Pathogen Detection” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/11/01

While this post is my perspective and not an official post of my employer's, it also draws on a lot of collaborative work with others at the Nucleic Acid Observatory (NAO) One of the future scenarios I'm most worried about is someone creating a "stealth" pandemic. Imagine a future HIV that first infects a large number of people with minimal side effects and only shows its nasty side after it has spread very widely. This is not something we're prepared for today: current detection

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[Linkpost] “AISN #25: White House Executive Order on...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/10/31

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.Subscribe here to receive future versions.Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify.White House Executive Order on AIWhile Congress has not voted on significant AI legislation this year, the White House has left their mark on AI policy. In June, they secured voluntary commitments on safety from leading AI companies. Now, the White House has

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“Self-Blinded L-Theanine RCT” by niplav

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/10/31

Value tracked Effect size d (λ, p, σ change) Effect size d (λ, p, σ change) 200 mg Caffeine (n=1, m=50) 500 mg L-theanine (n=1, m=50) Log-score substance prediction[1] -0.6 -0.7 Absorption 0.61 (λ=13.3, p=0.00017, -0.072) 0.04 (λ=1.38, p=0.77, -0.07) Mindfulness 0.58 (λ=11.8, p=0.0007, 0.021) 0.12 (λ=0.72, p=0.89, -0.018) Productivity 0.58 (λ=28.9, p=1.3-12, 0.11) -0.28 (λ=5.51, p=0.109, 0.03) Creativity 0.45 (λ=51, p=4.6-27, 0.09) -0.12 (λ=5.05, p=0.14, -0.04) Happiness 0.27

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24:07

“Preventing Language Models from hiding their...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2023/10/31

When working with powerful AI models, one concern is that the AIs steganographically encode secret messages when communicating with each other or in long Chains-of-Thought (CoT). Steganographic communication enables the AIs to follow a variety of strategies for grabbing power that we’d rather they didn’t have access to. There are a various countermeasures that can be employed to reduce the extent of steganographic communication; for example, trusted less-capable models can be used to paraphrase

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