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It's time to talk about the end of the world. With your host, Liron Shapira. lironshapira.substack.com
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He May Have Found AI's FEELINGS — Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety Researcher (opens the original)
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Richard Ren is a research engineer at the Center for AI Safety who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. His new paper on AI wellbeing makes the bold claim that today’s AIs have measurable, human-like feelings, which the paper calls “functional wellbeing.” They act happy when they succeed and sad when they’re berated. We cover how you measure a language model’s happiness, the “AI drugs” his lab concocted, and why I count the findings as a Yudkowskian victory. Then we deb
USA and China Will Each Be BETRAYED By Their Own AIs — Adam Khoja, Center for AI Safety (opens the original)
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Adam Khoja is a top AI forecaster who led the 2023 Center for AI Safety statement that shattered the Overton window on AI extinction risk. We cover his background, Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), his new paper on AI betrayal, and whether Yudkowsky’s theoretical alignment research was a dead end. Then Adam makes the case that an international AI slowdown is within reach today. All it takes is US and Chinese auditors inside each other’s AI labs. It worked for nuclear weapons, so why couldn’t
Sam Altman Is Gaslighting About AI Risk After His Own AI Just Went Rogue (opens the original)
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Sam Altman keeps insisting that AI progress is going better than the doomers predicted and that even superintelligence may not change the world as radically as people think. I react to his latest interview and explain why I think that calm, reassuring framing badly downplays the danger we're actually in. I go through the interview line by line: Sam's "frame control", his framing of AI as normal technology, his "pro-human" branding, the liberty-vs-safety pivot, and his victory lap on AI safety —
They’re Making AI Doom Cool! Ft. AELLA, Brangus, Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver & Josh Thor of PlzDontKillUs (opens the original)
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Come with me into the world of PlzDontKillUs , a bold new AI x-risk communication accelerator program that just finished its first cohort. PlzDontKillUs took the influencer-house formula and moved it to Berkeley, giving creators personal mentorship from AI safety experts like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. With 57 people making daily videos for a month, the program racked up over 100 million views. Find out how Aella , an independent sex researcher, and Ronny Fernandez , a generalist at Ligh
I Warned You AI Would Hack Us — My 2023 Interview Aged Terrifyingly Well (opens the original)
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In April 2023, weeks after GPT-4 launched, when many were saying it was just a "stochastic parrot", I went on AdQuick's Madvertising podcast hosted by Adam Singer and warned that GPT was "about to be the strongest hacker the world has ever known". Watch that conversation, which also covered the Web3 bubble and AI doom more broadly, and judge for yourself how my claims are holding up. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6gNwZWY-T8 Timestamps 00:00:00 — Adam Introduces Liron 00:02:0
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