Gideon Futerman
@GFuterman
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Researching how to reduce the dangers of superintelligence. Currently working on Gradual Disenpowerment.
Joined September 2019
MATS Summer 2026 applications launching soon! (Neel Nanda's are already open) Express interest here:
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Sorry, WHAT?😂
British people pretending half 10 is 10:30 is ridiculous. Half 10 is 9:30, not 10:30. You can’t just leave out a vital word in the sentence "half past 10" and pretend it's still the same sentence. ðŸ˜
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👀👀 Listen to parents. Don’t Let AI Buy The Government
Parents of victims are out in DC tonight with a message: AI law preemption hurts kids. Listen to parents.
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In case you missed this over the summer, it's well-worth a read (or at least skim for awareness)
Governing AI requires international agreements, but cooperation can be risky if there’s no basis for trust. Our new report looks at how to verify compliance with AI agreements without sacrificing national security. This is neither impossible nor trivial.🧵 1/
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Would be great if model releases were treated with more solemnity than excitement by people concerned by AI Safety. Every model that pushes us closer to superintelligence is less time we have to actually solve this thing
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I'll also be judging this, so come along and try and build a different, better future than that of uncritical "acceleration"
I'm now judging for this too! And I'll be handing out AI & Leviathan copies as a consolation prize. May I judge you?
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DEF/ACC HACKATHON NOV 22 @ VIVARIUM SF WHAT ARE WE ACCELERATING TOWARDS?
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STOP THE AI MORATORIUM IN THE NDAA - @BillBlasterApp Let them know your state has the right to legislate on AI - Mike Rogers (R-AL) — Chair of the House Armed Services Committee - Roger Wicker (R-MS) — Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee - Rob Wittman (R-VA) —
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Tell your legislators that every state has the right to regulate AI to protect the public. Pro-tech Republicans, led by Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise, are trying to slip another moratorium on state AI legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — effectively
🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 A 10 year AI moratorium is being slipped into the NDAA again and Republicans led by @tedcruz could block every state from regulating AI. 4 days to kill it!! REPS TO CALL: @RepMikeRogersAL, @RobWittman, @DesJarlaisTN04, @RepTrentKelly, @RepDonBacon,
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What this misses is the large extent to which 'the machine' is constrained, moderated and aligned by running on human minds.
constitutional democracy explicitly disempowers certain kinds of human judgement and replaces it with rigid procedure. the constitution is a type of machine logic that runs the country, and is one of the best things that ever happened
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What are the best/most interesting/most authoritative discussions of transparency in the context of AI Safety?
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What are the best/most interesting/most authoritative discussions of transparency in the context of AI Safety?
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Like, at the Iceland Shrimp Protest I went to, ordinary people, including those who ate shrimp, did think it was crazy that they have their eyestalks cut off! It sounds comically evil! There's a reason that getting supermarket commitments for shrimp welfare has been somewhat easy
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I think EA somewhat fumbled the comms on both shrimp welfare (and wild animal welfare.) Like, the main reaction if you communicate these in the right way from ordinary people is that they are eminently reasonable.
apparently shrimp welfare is a real EA cause area? Someone told me it was a parody designed to make EA look bad, but last night someone was defending it, saying we could make the last dying breaths of 7 million shrimp better or save a human life, and they'd choose the shrimp.
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Tremendously excited to see this out. Matthijs Maas's comprehensive knowledge and insight into the sprawling complexity of AI governance, synthesised in book form. Really looking forward to reading the final version. https://t.co/qiyS1fLphX
academic.oup.com
Abstract. As artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly capable, the world has awakened to the global stakes of this technology. AI’s im
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(1/8) Open Philanthropy’s Technical AI Safety team is recruiting grantmakers to support research aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. We’re hiring at all levels of seniority.
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London is a great city. It didn't invent the steam locomotive or start the industrial revolution. That's fine. Its fans shouldn't claim it did. I wrote about that.
tomforth.co.uk
London is a great city, it doesn't need to claim it invented the steam locomotive or started the industrial revolution.
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If I wasn't already working on AI consciousness, this kind of reasoning would make me think maybe I should work on AI consciousness (From Mustafa Suleyman's interview with CNBC)
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@binarybits @farmkind_giving @slatestarcodex @jhendersonYT @Benthamsbulldog @AndyMasley @RYChappell @morallawwithin @RichardHanania @krishnanrohit @waynehhsiung @PeterSinger @JeffMightBWrong @joshzepps @lymanstoneky @mattyglesias @jordanschnyc @brianbeutler @JillFilipovic @NateSilver538 (though fwiw i think that similar basic principles support prioritizing both AI and animal welfare, which is part of why i work on both issues)
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It would be deeply tragic and ironic for humanity’s greatest project to be sowing the seeds of our own destruction. We don’t have to do this. Let’s stop. https://t.co/r95hmAUIJt
evitable.com
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