This year’s Hill & Valley Forum will hit all the timeliest national security issues facing the tech industry and the Congress.

Couldn’t be more thrilled to have this conversation exactly one week after the Senate takes up a historic vote addressing the threat of Chinese…

Import AI will be skipping this week on account of me having food poisoning for several days and some (unrelated) family visit responsibilities.

Funny detail from Jack Clark's writeup on AURORA-M, the recent super-compliant LLM project that was 'red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order' (StarCoder++):

Its so-called «The Biden-Harris Redteam Dataset» is a derivative of Anthropic's pre-EO Harmlessness one.

I asked Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark whether we should worry AI will get sentient and kill us. He said we should decouple sentience with risk. And then things got weird!

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LLMs are in statistical margin of error ballpark as humans when it comes to writing persuasive statements about arbitrary issues. It's both unsurprising (LLMs seem to be able to approximate most things given sufficient scale) but raises question - will performance continue to…

To wake before dawn and hike somewhere to see the sun rise is to commune with every generation of people that has ever come before and will come after - and so wonderful to not just see the dawn but hear it with the chorus of all the hidden birds. #VOTENATURE2024

I think Jack's napkin math checks out, but it's worth pointing out how costs can vary 🧵

Every senior politician or military official in any nuclear-armed nation should be forced to read Annie Jacobsen's 'Nuclear War: A Scenario'. Easily the most frightening thing I have ever read (fiction or otherwise). A brilliant, factual account of the infernal logic of MAD.

what if, and bear with me here, we gave claude tools? Capabilities aside (marvelous though they are), we now have credible... 'clools'.

Measurement full house here in Brussels at the Geopolitical Europe Conference - directors of US AISI, UK AISI, and EU AI Office all sitting together.

After a few instances of people reading my short stories and asking me if I was okay (I'm super happy!), I have written a cheerful story for this week's Import AI. It was inspired by a dog covered in elk shit in the bar where I play pool. Hope y'all like it!