Ex-OpenAI employee amici leave to file denied in Musk v OpenAI case?
Several ex-employees of OpenAI filed an amicus brief in the Musk v OpenAI[1] case. This proposed brief argues that OpenAI should not be allowed to move from its existing nonprofit structure to
Don't accuse your interlocutor of being insufficiently truth-seeking
I argue that you shouldn't accuse your interlocutor of being insufficiently truth-seeking. This doesn't mean you can't internally model their level of truth-seeking and use that for
The limits of black-box evaluations: two hypotheticals
A prominent approach to AI safety goes under the name of "evals" or "evaluations". These are a critical component of plans that various major labs have, such as Anthropic&
A different take on the Musk v OpenAI preliminary injunction order
The judge in the Musk v OpenAI[1] case out of the northern district of California has issued an order on Musk's motion for preliminary injunction, which asked for an order
Do-Not-Train Signals
What data should an ML model developer be able to train on? This post is a proposal for addressing that question. In my view, powerful ML systems will radically change the world, and