Maxime Stauffer
@MaximeStauffer
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Huge fan of multi agent systems, agent based modelling, and social intelligence - these frames still seem really absent from mainstream AI discourse except in a few odd places. Some half-baked thoughts: 1. Expecting a model to do all the work, solve everything, come up with new
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castle weekend is our annual gathering of european frens - ppl from across geneva, berlin, ams, brussels, paris question is: how to bring more castle weekend to everyday life :) retreats are warm, liminal spaces. but real life could look like this too if you set it up right
At castle weekend this year, "authenticity pr0n" was coined: short-lived experiences of connection resulting from the desire for community. People feel fully themselves at retreats bc a lot of constraints are removed but the real skill is learning to dance with the constraints.
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Our newest side quest is settling down: https://t.co/mrUuRBJ6Lz. The future is unevenly distributed. To be prepared, we have to bring it home. Since 2014, @MaximeStauffer and I have been building here. @jpsnoeij & @chiaragerosa joined in 2015. With @alix_ph we now accelerate.
Here is a pretty wild story of You Can Just Do Things In 2019, I dreamed about my ideal life. It included: 1. A walkable neighborhood – raising kids near ppl I love 2. A campus – working, learning, and researching alongside ambitious peers 6 years later... 🧵
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Shoutout to all the builders joyously putting one foot in front of the other and not succumbing to the current fads of doomerism, sneer culture, and political polarization. It takes courage, even a sense of rebellion, to exit negativity culture
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I spent the last four weeks in the US. "The world order of the last 80 years is gone." came up very often. This didn't surprise me. "And it's not coming back." came up too, even by its proponents. This did surprise me.
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Our report to advise the intergovernmental negotiations on the International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance is out! Effective, agile and legitimate institutions are possible. Reach out to us if you want to discuss more!
Excited to share our recommendations for the UN's International Scientific Panel & Global Dialogue on AI! We hope our input can support the establishment of a truly global, scientifically rigorous, and politically relevant mechanism for governing AI. https://t.co/RRTnfgc4F2
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Excited to share our recommendations for the UN's International Scientific Panel & Global Dialogue on AI! We hope our input can support the establishment of a truly global, scientifically rigorous, and politically relevant mechanism for governing AI. https://t.co/RRTnfgc4F2
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Come work with us to multiply 10 years of joint experience! It will be fast, demanding and hopefully impactful. We need to save my hair - he already lost his!
Opportunity to work hand-in-hand with @MaximeStauffer and me! For the last 10 years, Max and I have been inseparable. Things have changed quite a lot since we founded the first student group and flatshare, however. Our badass team of eight is now tackling major challenges in
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NEW PAPER We're all tres excited for the Paris AI Action Summit but what comes next? We explore different options for the Future of the AI Summit Series in our new report covering: hosts, secretariat, participants, agenda & frequency.
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Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: https://t.co/k9ggxL7i66 1/16
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Happy almost-2025! 🎇 I've been quiet on here during parental leave, but to ring in the new year here's a short thread with some things I read recently that I've found myself coming back to:
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Intergovernmental negotiations often start with a lack of shared knowledge about the options to consider OR obscure recommendations, both leading to non-ambitious compromises. Our new report addresses this problem by providing options for designing two AI governance mechanisms!
Excited to share our new interim report, outlining potential design options for the #UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and Global Dialogue on AI Governance, both mandated by the #GlobalDigitalCompact in Sept 2024 🧵 https://t.co/fheSJfQ0La
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The Science of AI Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists. In a new opinion piece for Foreign Policy I explain why I’m worried for the UN’s new “Independent International Scientific Panel on AI”. (link in reply)
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A "most read" for anyone interested in complex systems and biological information processing. Also add to that Simon's "Architecture of complexity". ps. I highly recommend the series of "Foundational papers in complex systems" from @sfiscience and can't wait for the 4th vol!
#TBT 1973 – Herbert A. Simon published “The Organization of Complex Systems in Hierarchy Theory,” a far-reaching and reasonably accessible account arguing that complex systems can decompose neatly into digestible components. SFI’s External Professor John Kaag
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New plans. Get in touch if you're interested in contributing to our work!
With the #SummitoftheFuture2024 behind us and new seeds for AI governance having been planted, SI is taking stock of the multilateral system and planning steps for the foreseeable future. You can read more about our plans in the blog post below. https://t.co/f3KUoELOaw
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The Pact of the Future and the Global Digital Compact have been ADOPTED! Facilitated by Sweden and Zambia, we now have a universal agreement on our digital future. Now the work begins implementing the many commitments - we’re excited to share this journey with you.
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Our team is growing! Take this unique role at the intersection of tech developments and international policy processes!
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Are we running out of data to train language models? State-of-the-art LLMs use datasets with tens of trillions of words, and use 2-3x more per year. Our new ICML paper estimates when we might exhaust all text data on the internet. 1/12
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FYSA, this exponential curve we found two years ago, that grows 4x every year for the last decade — that's still going.
1/ How quickly are state-of-the-art AI models growing? The amount of compute used in AI training is a critical driver of progress in AI. Our analysis of over 300 machine learning systems reveals that the amount of compute used in training is consistently being scaled up at
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