Owen Cotton-Barratt

What is an agent? It’s a slippery concept with no commonly accepted formal definition, but informally the concept seems to be useful. One angle on it is Dennett’s Intentional Stance: we think of an entity as being an agent if we can more easily predict it by treating it as...

This post contains the abstract and executive summary of a new 96-page paper from authors at the Future of Humanity Institute and OpenAI. Update: The authors are doing an AMA about truthful AI during October 26-27. Abstract In many contexts, lying – the use of verbal falsehoods to deceive –...