Michaël Trazzi

Oct 28, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Michaël Trazzi |Gavin Leech |Elizabeth Van Nostrand |Nuño Sempere

What do I mean by “homegrown”?

Oct 28, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Michaël Trazzi

(Some people have messaged me asking me to crosspost my Manifund proposal to Lesswrong for reach. Below, a summary. Full text available here)We will produce a one-hour feature documentary about SB-1047, which would:Serve as a comprehensive reference on the bill's history and implications. Present a balanced view of perspectives from both proponents and opponents, bridging ideological divides. Contribute to informed discussions about future AI Policy by providing in-depth, impartial analysis.

Aug 24, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Michaël Trazzi |Owain Evans

Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher, research associate at the Center of Human Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, and now leading a new AI safety research group. In this episode we discuss two of his recent papers, “Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs” (LW) and “Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data” (LW), alongside some Twitter questions.

Feb 10, 2024 | theinsideview.ai | Michaël Trazzi |Adversarial Training

.. 2024-02-11 Evan Hubinger leads the Alignment stress-testing team at Anthropic and recently published “Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training”. In this interview we mostly discuss the Sleeper Agents paper, but also how this line of work relates to his work with Alignment Stress-testing, Model Organisms of Misalignment, Deceptive Instrumental Alignment or Responsible Scaling Policies.

May 30, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Michaël Trazzi |Ben Pace |Wei Dai |Alan Dunne

For those who might not have noticed, this actually is historic, they're not just saying that- the top 350 people have effectively "come clean" about this, at once, in a schelling-point **kind-of** way. The long years of staying quiet about this and avoiding telling other people your thoughts about AI potentially ending the world, because you're worried that you're crazy or that you take science fiction too seriously- those days **might have** just ended.