feels like the Apollo Research review of o1 was a bit adversarial - just getting that vibe from the description in the system card

It's interesting how many disasters come from a collection of small failures - often because people are not sufficiently motivated to coordinate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRM2...

Interesting thread on what social media rewards in academic articles. I think overbroad claims but, you know, you take what you can get. x.com/0xredJ/statu...

Another interesting video - I think the idea that providers should have to stop deployment of their models if the models attempt to escape is reasonable. Probably the starting point is actually a set of reporting requirements, but I digress...

lauren’s views on The Curve conference x.com/typewriters/...

claimed - AI misuse risk and AI misalignment risk are the same thing form a policy and technical perspective

the most frustrating thing of a lot of papers on safety topics is the refusal to give illustrative real life examples - and often when examples are given, they don't hold up to scrutiny or only weakly make the point that they are supposed to support

I'm starting to really wonder if the issue at OpenAI with safety is that the safety advocates don't understand what it's like to work in a "control function" at a company. It's pretty brutal work.

I would be interested to see if anyone wants to talk about how a safety organization at a major lab should be designed. I don't hear much discussion of this.