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Weekly Roundup: U.S. Election edition

Unconventional readings on the impact of the U.S. election on AI governance

Nov 9 •

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Sruly Rosenblat

October 2024

AI is Entirely New, AI is Exactly the Same

Thoughts on the new White House AI Memorandum

Oct 29 •

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The world of AI, innovation, competition, and regulation as we think of it.

Oct 23 •

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Is AI Safety a Potemkin Village?

Why disclosures ought to include the funding level and operational metrics of AI safety

Oct 22 •

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Things we've read that we think you might want to read as well

Oct 10 •

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Model Persuasiveness: Feature or bug?

OpenAI's latest model cards consider persuasiveness as an AI risk. But will it stay that way? What happens when AI business models benefit from…

Oct 2 •

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Risk without Uncertainty? OpenAI would like us to think so...

AI model evaluations, such as those conducted by OpenAI in its GPT system cards, aim to quantify model risks but often fail to account for uncertainty.

Oct 1 •

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September 2024

Weekly Roundup 9/25/24

Things of note that we've read recently

Sep 24 •

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The Reflection 70b Controversy – and Why We Need “Bad Benchmarks”

What the Reflection 70b model controversy tells us about LLM evaluation methods & our differing standards for closed vs. open source models

Sep 12 •

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Sruly Rosenblat

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The hot blood leaps over the cold decree

In Arthur Conan-Doyle’s 1892 short story “Silver Blaze,” Sherlock Holmes draws the attention of a Scotland Yard detective to “the curious incident of…

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August 2024

Things we've read that we think you might want to read as well

Aug 21 •

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