Andrea Miotti

We (Connor Leahy, Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi) have just published The Compendium, which brings together in a single place the most important arguments that drive our models of the AGI race, and what we need to do to avoid catastrophe. We felt that something like this...

We have published A Narrow Path: our best attempt to draw out a comprehensive plan to deal with AI extinction risk. We propose concrete conditions that must be satisfied for addressing AI extinction risk, and offer policies that enforce these conditions. A Narrow Path answers the following: assuming extinction risk...

The UK government recently established the Foundation Models Taskforce, focused on AI safety and backed by £100M in funding. Founder, investor and AI expert Ian Hogarth leads the new organization. The establishment of the Taskforce shows the UK’s intention to be a leading player in the greatest governance challenge of...

Preface In December 2022, Rohin Shah (DeepMind) and Connor Leahy (Conjecture) discussed why Leahy is pessimistic about AI risk, and Shah is less so. Below is a summary and transcript. Summary Leahy expects discontinuities - capabilities rapidly increasing and behavior diverging far from what we aim towards - to be...

The following are the summary and transcript of a discussion between Paul Christiano (ARC) and Gabriel Alfour, hereafter GA (Conjecture), which took place on December 11, 2022 on Slack. It was held as part of a series of discussions between Conjecture and people from other organizations in the AGI and...

At the end of 2022, following the success of the 2021 MIRI Conversations, Conjecture started a project to host discussions about AGI and alignment with key people in the field. The goal was simple: surface positions and disagreements, identify cruxes, and make these debates public whenever possible for collective benefit....

This podcast has gotten a lot of traction, so we're posting a full transcript of it, lightly edited with ads removed, for those who prefer reading over audio. Intro Eliezer Yudkowsky: [clip] I think that we are hearing the last winds start to blow, the fabric of reality start to...