Oliver Habryka

@ohabryka

Building LessWrong.com and Lighthaven.space.

lesswrong.com

Joined December 2011

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Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
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After Jacob Coxon's tweet I've seen thousands of people ask what they can do to make AI killing everyone less likely. My top recommendation: Call your representatives and tell them to prioritize existential risk from AI. We just made callcongress.ai to help with this.
callcongress.ai
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Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Sep 11
Here are also some extremely high quality videos of some concrete scenarios of how AI could realistically kill everyone: Yudkowsky's and Soares' scenario: youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7-bR… AI-2027: youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDf… (or alternatively youtube.com/watch?v=k_onqn…) Interview with Holden
Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Sep 11
After Jacob Coxon's resignation and extinction warnings, a lot of people are asking 'how could AI possibly kill everyone?' and claiming AI safety researchers have no realistic answer. This is false! Here are the 5 best scenarios I know of: AI 2027: ai-2027.com (I
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Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Sep 11
After Jacob Coxon's resignation and extinction warnings, a lot of people are asking 'how could AI possibly kill everyone?' and claiming AI safety researchers have no realistic answer. This is false! Here are the 5 best scenarios I know of: AI 2027: ai-2027.com (I
AI 2027
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Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Aug 26
I appreciate METR's meta-transparency policy here a lot. I was historically very worried about METR ending up providing implicit assurance as part of their work, as (for example) some of the core staff had signed self-cloaking NDAs while they worked at the labs. But it seems
Elizabeth Barnes
@BethMayBarnes
Aug 26
Replying to @BethMayBarnes
Some of the incentives for a third-party investigator push toward maximizing *appearance* of assurance even without providing meaningful oversight. METR needs to maintain constant vigilance against overstating (including by omission) what oversight or assurance we’re providing.
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Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Aug 20
Applications for the first round of lightconecommons.com are closing this Sunday! We'll likely facilitate $35M of grants by end of October. The application process is minimal and extremely flexible. If you have an ambitious project of almost any scale, send in what you have.
Lightcone Commons — An end-to-end platform for ambitious philanthropy
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