As Geodesic scales, we're delighted to welcome Nathalie Kirch as our newest member of technical staff. We can't wait to get to work 🚀

Thanks to a generous philanthropic grant (pending final logistics) from Coefficient Giving, 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧. Come build the base of alignment with us 🤖 Applications now open: airtable.com/appuugUGFPJE...

Geodesic is hiring Members of Technical Staff. We're a Cambridge-based AI safety org. Our seminal work showed you can bake alignment priors into base models. Now, we want to make base models robust to the adversarial effects of long-horizon capabilities RL. EOI ~5 mins: tally.so/r/vG4G6A

We pretrained multiple 7B LLMs from scratch and found that natural exposure to AI misalignment discourse causes models to become more misaligned. Optimistically, we also find that adding positive synthetic documents in pretraining reduces misalignment. Thread 🧵