See also: [[Book pile]]. _Last updated: 2023-03-31 19:00_ _This list is automatically generated._ # All items by month added ## March 2023 **AI** - ‘On With Kara Swisher’: Sam Altman on the GPT-4 R… - Avoiding Existential Threats as a Non-Zero-Sum Ga… - Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment - Confused why a capabilities research is good for alignment progress position isn't discussed more - LessWrong - Conditioning Generative Models with Restrictions - AI Alignment Forum - How likely is deceptive alignment - AI Alignment Forum - Anthropic's Core Views on AI Safety - AI Alignment Forum - Towards understanding-based safety evaluations - AI Alignment Forum - Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations - c-ppl - GPT-4 Technical Report - When is rationality useful - Three intuitions about effective altruism responsibility, scale, self-improvement - The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) - AI Alignment Forum - A pragmatic approach to interpreting moral claims - The innocent self - Utilitarianism and its discontents - Anthropic | Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How - Basic facts about language models during training - AI Alignment Forum - Tolerance, Oppression and Effective Altruism - Making decisions using multiple worldviews - Against strong bayesianism - Book review The Technology Trap - Characterising utopia - Disentangling arguments for the importance of AI safety - In Search of All Souls - Technical AGI safety research outside AI - Seven habits towards highly effective minds - Conditioning Generative Models with Restrictions - AI Alignment Forum - Moral strategies at different capability levels - My fictional influences - Scope-sensitive ethics capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism - My intellectual influences - Science-informed normativity - Which values are stable under ontology shifts - Strategy For Conditioning Generative Models - AI Alignment Forum - Realism about rationality - Building Secure & Reliable Systems - Acceleration. - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing - Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence - Early experiments with GPT-4 - gatesnotes.com-The Age of AI has begun - Characterising utopia - Don't accelerate problems you're trying to solve - LessWrong - Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman GPT-4 isn’t perfect, but neither are you TechCrunch - gpt-4-system-card - More information about the dangerous capability evaluations we did with GPT-4 and Claude. - LessWrong - Thoughts on the impact of RLHF research - LessWrong - Pinker on Alignment and Intelligence as a "Magical Potion" - Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans - Dan Hendrycks - Some%20high-level%20thoughts%20on%20the%20DeepMind%20alignment%20team's%20strate - Soares, Tallinn, and Yudkowsky discuss AGI cognition - AI Alignment Forum - Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI - Jon Stokes - Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk? - Joe Carlsmith - A toy model of the treacherous turn - LessWrong - (My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why - AI - Preventing an AI-related catastrophe - 80,000 Hours - OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond" - by Scott Alexander - How to navigate the AI apocalypse as a sane person - Risk, Again - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias **Nick Bostrom** - Existential Risks Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios **Articles** - The relationship between church and state in the UK **Joe Carlsmith** - Seeing more whole - Joe Carlsmith **Accellerationism** - E12- Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jez ## February 2023 **AI** - E10- Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism - Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior - LessWrong - The Basic AI Drives - Stephen M. 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