MIRI's May 2024 Newsletter

post by Harlan · 2024-05-15T00:13:30.153Z · LW · GW · 1 comments

This is a link post for https://intelligence.org/2024/05/14/may-2024-newsletter/

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Update (5-15-2024): I wrote that “it appears that not all of the leading AI labs are honoring the voluntary agreements they made at [AI Safety Summit],” citing a Politico article. However, after seeing more discussion about it (e.g. here [LW(p) · GW(p)]), I am now highly uncertain about whether the labs made specific commitments, what those commitments were, and whether commitments were broken. These seem like important questions, so I hope that we can get more clarity.

MIRI updates:

A number of important developments in the larger world occurred during the MIRI Newsletter’s hiatus from July 2022 to April 2024To recap just a few of these:

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comment by Harlan · 2024-05-16T00:38:51.085Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I wrote that “it appears that not all of the leading AI labs are honoring the voluntary agreements they made at [AI Safety Summit],” citing a Politico article. However, after seeing more discussion about it (e.g. here [LW(p) · GW(p)]), I am now highly uncertain about whether the labs made specific commitments, what those commitments were, and whether commitments were broken. These seem like important questions, so I hope that we can get more clarity.