BLUF:
* To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a good y-axis: an interval scale of AI capability which means +1 unit always represents the same degree of ‘how much better’, in the same way +1 degree Celsius is always the same amount of ‘how much hotter’.
* Yet there is no good y-axis for AI capability. All our...
Summary
* The animal welfare movement has already seen an influx in funding and should prepare for the possibility of more.
* The EA Animal Welfare Fund is encouraging those working in animal advocacy to actively set aside time and resources now to concretely plan for scaling sustainably, and we’ll support you in doing that.
* We’re requesting advocates set concrete ambitious goals and submit plans t...
Public service announcement
1. Applications are now open for our first ever round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program dedicated exclusively to animal welfare. Learn more about what’s different this round here and apply...
I'm announcing an open call for volunteers with expertise in the following areas to complete an assessment of AI's global frontier:
(1) Frontier AI capability evaluation
(2) AI safety including alignment and interpretability
(3) AI governance and policy
(4) ML research, compute, infrastructure, or security
(5) AI policy for national security, economics, or law
Individual scores are never published. We only report the aggregate; meaning the median and spread across all respondents.
If you qualify and want to participate, please contact me - [email protected].