I believe AI is not a normal technology.
I am a visiting fellow at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. I hold an MS in computer science, have studied interpretability, deception, and persuasion in language models, and have published in several machine learning venues.
Previously, I was a MATS research fellow, an AI Frameworks Engineer at Intel, and, in high school, a Minecraft modder with hundreds of thousands of downloads.
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history I also like Kotkin's books!
The Power of Intelligence a five-minute case that intelligence is the most powerful force we know
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth I REALLY like this book, and it's written by the father of optogenetics
Situational Awareness helped me appreciate the gravity of the current AI situation.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal the most esteemed primatologist of my lifetime — changed how I think about minds unlike our own.
Sarah Paine motivated me to read up on grand strategy and world history
The AI Doc this movie includes AI optimists, pessimists, skeptics, and believers and somehow does justice to them all!
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy a Wired article by the Sun Microsystems co-founder, way ahead of his time.
Invisible Rulers by DiResta made me concerned over the vulnerability of open societies
The alignment problem of 1776 the most prescient blog post as of today
The King and The Golem eventually, you have to take a leap of faith…
The Toxoplasma of Rage a heuristic on why rage-inducing ideas spread