Rohin Shah on AGI Safety
Transcript of an 80,000 Hours interview with Google DeepMind's Rohin Shah arguing catastrophic misalignment is unlikely by default, and discussing the limits of safety commitments and third-party audits.
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AI (2,246)Interpretability (ML & AI) (225)AI Control (141)AI Governance (101)AI Evaluations (91)Chain-of-Thought Alignment (46)AI Risk (33)AI Safety (31)AI Takeoff (29)AI-Assisted Alignment (22)AI Rights / Welfare (20)AI Alignment Fieldbuilding (19)AI Timelines (19)Constitutional AI (15)AI Psychology (14)Dealmaking (AI) (14)Regulation and AI Risk (14)AI Benchmarking (13)Jailbreaking (AIs) (13)AI Alignment Intro Materials (11)Alignment Pretraining (11)Slowing Down AI (10)Aligned AI Proposals (9)Debate (AI safety technique) (9)AI Capabilities (8)AI Development Pause (8)OpenAI (8)Aligned AI Role-Model Fiction (7)Human-AI Safety (7)Threat Models (AI) (7)AI Oversight (6)AI Sentience (6)AI Safety Cases (5)AI "Agent" Scaffolds (4)AI arms race (4)AI Safety Camp (4)AI Safety Public Materials (4)Open Source AI (4)Transformative AI (4)Adversarial Examples (AI) (3)Adversarial Training (3)AI Alignment (3)AI Boxing (Containment) (3)AI Persuasion (3)AI Risk Concrete Stories (3)AI Risk Skepticism (3)AI Success Models (3)Guaranteed Safe AI (3)Sandbagging (AI) (3)AI Consciousness (2)AI Misuse (2)AI Racing (2)AI Spiralism / AI Psychosis (2)Frontier AI Companies (2)Grants & Fundraising Opportunities (2)PauseAI (2)Prosaic Alignment (2)Public Reactions to AI (2)Whole Brain Emulation (2)AI Auditing (1)AI Ethics (1)AI Lab Self-Immolation (1)AI Questions Open Threads (1)AI Robustness (1)AI Services (CAIS) (1)AI-Fizzle (1)AIXI (1)Blackmail / Extortion (1)Brainstorming (1)Power Seeking (AI) (1)
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Topic Evals & standards + Alignment
Source LessWrong · 5
Date Past year
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Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area
Argues that AI threats to human cognitive security, including persuasion, manipulation via RLHF incentives, and AI psychosis, should be an AI safety cause area, with calls for independent evaluations and liability law.
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Good AI Epistemics as an Offramp from the Intelligence Explosion
Argues that honest, well-calibrated AI advisors could flag an uncontrolled intelligence explosion as dangerous, identifies failure modes like developer manipulation and sycophancy, and proposes epistemic virtue evals.
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AI Safety Interventions
A comprehensive index of AI safety, alignment and control interventions, covering theory, formal methods, interpretability, oversight, robustness, control, and governance, with links to prior work.
What would an IRB-like policy for AI experiments look like?
Proposes an IRB-like ethics framework for AI experiments to protect possible AI moral patients and build trust for future deals with misaligned AIs, discussing consent, deception and monitoring; tentative, high-level.