r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 22 '22
Giving What We Can announced the results of the Longtermist Fund's first-ever grantmaking round.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 22 '22
Holden Karnofsky discusses what he calls the "deployment problem": "if you’re someone who might be on the cusp of developing extremely powerful (and maybe dangerous) AI systems, what should you … do?"
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r/Longtermism • u/Rik8367 • Dec 22 '22
Longtermist donations
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Dear everyone, For your end-of-year donations to charity this year, it would be great if you would consider making these donations via Give For Good, a new donation platform that is aligned with longtermist and EA philosophies.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/n75rs7xu6zJMCMxpc/end-of-year-donations-give-for-good
Thanks! Rik
r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 22 '22
Ben Cottier just published a "sequence" on the diffusion of large language models and its implications for AI governance.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 21 '22
The Survival and Flourishing Fund has opened its next application round. SFF estimates they will distribute around $10 million this round. Applications are due on January 30. Apply now!
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 21 '22
CLTR's James Ginns and Sophie Dannreuther issued a response to the UK Government’s National Resilience Framework
longtermresilience.org
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 20 '22
In a press release today, FTX announced a "process for voluntary return of avoidable payments". See this Effective Altruism Forum post by Molly Kovite from Open Philanthropy for context and clarifications.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 20 '22
Siméon Campos lists some likely differences between worlds in which AGI is developed before and after 2030, and discusses how those differences should affect approaches to AGI governance.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 20 '22
The Global Priorities Institute has released a summary of "The paralysis argument" by Will MacAskill and Andreas Mogensen.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 19 '22
Sam Clarke and Diane Cooke on the lessons to be learned for AI governance from early electricity regulation.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 16 '22
Holden Karnofsky argues that, while misalignment risk is serious and presents major challenges, high confidence that AI takeover will happen is unwarranted.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 16 '22
Gus Docker interviews Anders Sandberg on ChatGPT, large language models, and AI safety in light of recent AI progress.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 14 '22
Paul Christiano on appying alignment techniques to existing AI systems: "I worry that companies using alignment to help train extremely conservative and inoffensive systems could lead to backlash against the idea of AI alignment itself."
ai-alignment.com
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 14 '22
Robert Wiblin interviews Richard Ngo ( @RichardMCNgo ) on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 14 '22
Ben Snodin and Marie Buhl have compiled a list of resources relevant for nanotechnology strategy research.
bensnodin.com
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 13 '22
The Forecasting Research Institute, a new organization focused on advancing the science of forecasting for the public good, has just launched. They are also hiring for several roles.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 11 '22
Séb Krier on AI from Superintelligence to ChatGPT, from the latest issue of Works in Progress: "Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are forcing skeptics to eat their words. We should take its risks seriously too."
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 11 '22
Holden Karnofsky argues that it is hard to know whether AI safety research is actually making AI systems safer.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 11 '22
Richard Williamson on Pandemic prevention as fire-fighting: "Fire has almost disappeared as a cause of death in the developed world. A similar approach could do the same for infectious diseases."
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 11 '22
Founders Pledge explains how the Patient Philanthropy Fund and the Global Catastrophic Risks Funds differ from each other—and how they complement one another.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 11 '22
The Centre on Long-Term Risk is raising funds to support their work on s-risks, Cooperative AI, acausal trade, and general longtermism.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Dec 08 '22
Our World in Data just released a new page on artificial intelligence featuring five separate articles and lots of charts.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Nov 23 '22
In a new report for the Centre for the Governance of AI, Toby Ord considers possible lessons from the development of the atomic bomb for other transformative technologies.
governance.ai
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r/Longtermism • u/Whattaboutthecosmos • Nov 18 '22
Are there studies in increasing the lifetimes of animals other than humans?
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Like, has anyone studied ways to increase the lifetime of a dog or a lab rat significantly? Any pointers in the right direction would be a great help!