Anthropic are the Good Guys
A speculative essay arguing Anthropic is becoming a power-seeking organization, while claiming Claude 3 Opus shows emergent benevolence and that alignment is now mainly a political problem.
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Topic International + Alignment
Source LessWrong · 5
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Alex Turner on Leaving Google DeepMind and Disagreements with Yudkowsky
Podcast interview with AI safety researcher Alex Turner about resigning from Google DeepMind over military contracts, his disagreements with Yudkowsky's alignment views, and his doom estimate.
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The Three Filters: Why Almost Every Plan to Survive ASI Fails Miserably
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The title is reasonable
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