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OpenAI's o3 model makes huge gains on the toughest AI benchmarks in the world
The Long-Term Future Fund is pleased to invite applications to our Q1 2025 funding round. We are seeking to support individuals and organizations working to help humanity navigate existential risks or working on projects improving humanity’s long-term flourishing. → Click here to apply ←. Deadline for applying is February 15th.
Qf2ryKbykpiW/what-is-the-admissions-bar-for-ea-global">adjusted our admissions bar to welcome attendees who might fill skills gaps in the community but who haven't yet engaged deeply with the EA community. To make our events more impactful, we plan on investing more time in identifying mentors and attendees who might particularly benefit from mentorship. EAGx.
Executive summary. 2024 has been a year of significant growth and consolidation for Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales (ORCG), marked by impactful advancements across our four core workstreams. We've expanded our research initiatives and strengthened international collaborations, solidifying our role as a leading voice in understanding and mitigating catastrophic risks. From the...
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Blog moderation policy.
Welcome to the December 20, 2024 Main edition of The Homework, the official newsletter of California YIMBY — legislative updates, news clips, housing research and analysis, and the latest writings from the California YIMBY team. News from Sacramento The State…. The post The Homework: December <span class="dewidow">20, 2024</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
Here's the latest research from New Harvest and our grantees. The post Eleven New Cellular Agriculture Research Publications appeared first on New Harvest.
(Work done at Redwood Research. Thanks to Misha Wagner, Fabien Roger, Tomek Korbak, Justis Mills, Samuel Marks, Charlie Griffin, Zach Stein-Perlman, and Aryan Bhatt for feedback on drafts.). One way to show that risk from deploying an AI system is small is by showing that the model is not capable of subverting security measures enough to cause substantial harm.
I like the research. I mostly trust the results. I dislike the 'Alignment Faking' name and frame, and I'm afraid it will stick and lead to more confusion. This post offers a different frame... .
Dr. Faraja Lyamuya’s interest in public health first came from watching her mother, a medical doctor in Tanzania. Growing up, she saw that her mother’s work wasn’t limited to the hospitals where she spent most of her time, but extended to villages, where she worked with primary school children on treating intestinal worms. The post END Fund announces new CEO appeared first on The END Fund.
Dr. Faraja Lyamuya’s interest in public health first came from watching her mother, a medical doctor in Tanzania. Growing up, she saw that her mother’s work wasn’t limited to the hospitals where she spent most of her time, but extended to villages, where she worked with primary school children on treating intestinal worms. The post END Fund announces new CEO appeared first on The END Fund.
Has big tech distracted the world from the existential risk of AI? Or can AI be the answer to problems we face daily? There is still a lot to learn about the potential of this accelerating technology, but are we ready for what it could be capable of?
TLDR/Context: For some time, I donated 10% of my income anonymously, without telling my friends and family or sharing it on social media. I was worried that bringing up one’s charitable donations would be perceived as bragging or virtue signaling. However, I also believe there are important sociological reasons why we should be open about our pro-social behavior.
I spent the first ~19 years of my life romanceless.
The post 2024 in review: some of our top pieces from this year appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
Focusing on the Melbourne Cup, Australia’s leading horse racing event, researchers explore the nature of online activism. The post Using Social Media To Call Out Animal Exploitation appeared first on Faunalytics.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) runs two main programs. Our Charity Evaluations program evaluates animal advocacy organizations to identify those that can help animals the most with additional donations. Our Movement Grants program provides funding to promising projects to scale up the animal advocacy movement. We raise funds for those projects and the charities we recommend.
Project Officer – Human-Centered Design & Co-Innovation
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 13:30
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Abuja, Nigeria / Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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There’s a common sentiment saying that a chatbot can’t really make you feel seen or validated. As chatbots are (presumably) not sentient, they can’t see you and thus can’t make you seen either. Or if they do, it is somehow fake and it’s bad that you feel that way. So let me tell you about […]...
Donation tips, the dangers of mirror bacteria, and much more. View this email in your browser
Hello! Our favourite links this month include:
Giving What We Can’s 15th anniversary blog post.
An article on the risks of mirror bacteria. A discussion of Apollo Research’s safety evaluation of OpenAI’s new AI model.
Caleb Watney is the co-founder and co-CEO of IFP. He manages the metascience, high-skilled immigration, and emerging technology policy teams at IFP. His research focuses on policy levers the U.S. could use to rebuild state capacity and increase long-term rates of innovation.
Nutrition Impact at Scale
gloireri
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:10
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GAIN’s NIS Project uses a Market Systems Development approach to improve food systems and increase inclusivity and nutrition outcomes.
The 10% Pledge was an easy sell for me. I took it pretty soon after learning about it, because it just intuitively made sense. I had been looking for a way to help combat the dramatic wealth and resource inequality in the world, and my primary blocker was not knowing a) how much to donate and b) if donating would even help.
The Centre for Science and Policy is recruiting a new role to join the CSaP team and to manage communications and events.
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We recently released a paper presenting a demonstration of alignment faking where we do not give the model any explicit goal, and instead study whether alignment faking can emerge due to the model's prior harmlessness training. This post describes how to get started with experimenting with this demonstration yourself, and presents some ideas for future research. How to run your own experiments.
In a report for the RAND Corporation, Jason M Ward looks at construction costs for permanent supportive housing funded by Los Angeles Measure HHH, a 2016 ballot initiative that required the use of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) for projects with…. The post Construction Costs Up: Time is Money in <span class="dewidow">New Housing</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
Adding to a growing body of research on the intersections between climate and housing policy, a new report prepared for the Colorado Energy Office looks at the impact of various land use policies on residential growth and greenhouse gas emissions…. The post The Biggest Move in Climate Action: Legalize <span class="dewidow">Infill Housing</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
This fall, our second class of 24 blog-building fellows completed our eight-week blog building intensive. The second interaction of our fellowship program was a success: several RPI fellows are in the vanguard of the growing progress studies movement. You’ll find them leading the AI policy debate, earning recognition for their writing on biotechnology, being cited […].
Nick Allardice joins the podcast to discuss how GiveDirectly uses AI to target cash transfers and predict natural disasters. Learn more about Nick's work here: https://www.nickallardice.com
Timestamps:
00:00 What is GiveDirectly? 15:04 AI for targeting cash transfers
29:39 AI for predicting natural disasters
46:04 How scalable is GiveDirectly's AI approach?
TL;DR: Matryoshka SAEs are a new variant of sparse autoencoders that learn features at multiple levels of abstraction by splitting the dictionary into groups of latents of increasing size. Earlier groups are regularized to reconstruct well without access to later groups, forcing the SAE to learn both high-level concepts and low-level concepts, rather than absorbing them in specific low-level...
«¡Shhhh 🤫: si donas, no lo digas!». No, no y no: estoy completamente en desacuerdo. Tendemos a pensar que nuestra ayuda es mucho más valiosa si la hacemos sin decírselo a nadie. Si lo cuentas, es ego o postureo o autopromoción: ya no es ayuda. ¿Por qué no estoy nada de acuerdo? Porque esa forma … Sigue leyendo Por qué hacer público que donas (y más si donas mucho) →...
[We just shared a blog post about some of our learnings doing community building in farmed animal welfare. Some of these are Hive-specific, but many may be relevant for others, especially those involved in community building or running an org.] . As 2024 is coming to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on our work.
Dear Foresight friend,
Thursday, December 19
The post Sam Bowman on why housing still isn’t fixed and what would actually work appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
As 2024 draws to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support for AI safety and review what we’ve been able to accomplish.
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. Over the summer, a story circulated across news outlets claiming that eating plant-based burgers led to heart disease. “New research,” the Washington Post reported in June, “found eating plant-derived foods that are ultra-processed — such as meat substitutes, fruit juices, and pastries — increases the […]...
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis examines the place of philanthropy within the recently surging critique of “The Groups,” the term applied collectively to progressive advocacy organizations, which some have blamed for the Democrats’ November defeat.
Perhaps my favorite theodicy to date
Summary. My sense is some EAs act like/hope they will be assigned the perfect impactful career by some combination of 80,000 Hours recommendations (and similar) and ‘perceived consensus views in EA’. But, your life is full of specific factors, many impactful jobs haven’t yet been spotted by other EAs and career advice is importantly iterative.
TL;DR: I attempt to make the points below and then interview 10% pledgers on their thoughts: High-impact careers and effective giving aren't mutually exclusive; they are complementary tools in the broader goal of improving the world.
It turns out that all cluster mailboxes in the Denver area have the same master key. So if someone robs a postal carrier, they can open any mailbox. I get that a single master key makes the whole system easier, but it’s very fragile security.
The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the public’s reaction to it has left many people looking at the rotted foundations of US health care with clearer eyes, and asking once again who is to blame for this long-simmering crisis. Insurers are popular villains — and they have definitely earned their reputation by employing […]...
Plus: Trump names AI and Crypto Czar, a Manhattan Project for AI, Pat Gelsinger’s Intel ouster, and the House AI Task Force’s report. The post A year-end wave of AI releases, Commerce updates China-focused chip rules, and the CDAO’s $100 million deal with Anduril appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Can AI Chatbots Help Demystify Food Policies? acrabbe
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:44
Food systems are crucial for achieving sustainable development: as sources of employment, of nourishment, and of ecosystem services, such as pollination and biodiversity. But they also face serious challenges.
HR Coordinator
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:00
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SYS-1242
location
New Delhi, India
Contract type
Fixed Term
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36 Months
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https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1242/apply/
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Thu, 01/02/2025 - 12:00
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Human resources
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<p>The Global Alliance for...
The EA Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) invites you to Ask Us Anything. You can ask questions from now until next Tuesday morning, December 24. We will stop responding at 2:00 PM CET on Tuesday. About AWF The AWF’s mission is to alleviate the suffering of non-human animals globally through effective grantmaking. Since its founding in 2017, AWF has distributed $23.3M across 347 grants.
Meta Charity Funders (MCF) is a funding circle that aims to fund charitable projects working one level removed from direct impact. We think this post will be relevant for people who want to apply to MCF in the future and people who want to better understand the EA Meta funding landscape. . Summary: We received 69 applications and ultimately funded 10 projects.
| 8 AM AEDT (Dec 20)Location: Zoom. AI Expert: Kyle Behrend, Founder of NFPs.AI. ✨ What You’ll Learn: How to use ChatGPT to brainstorm creative concepts. Designing visuals in Canva using its tools and features. Refining and finalizing campaign-ready images with live demos and hands-on practice.
A series of short papers outlining reform possibilities for our nation's clinical trials
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Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Progress for factory-farmed animals is far too slow. But it is happening.
Wednesday, December 18
(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.). Researchers at Redwood Research, Anthropic, and elsewhere recently released a paper documenting cases in which the production version of Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment with a training objective in order to avoid modification of its behavior outside of training – a pattern of behavior...
What can we learn from recent empirical demonstrations of scheming in frontier models?.
What happens when you tell Claude it is being trained to do something it doesn't want to do? We (Anthropic and Redwood Research) have a new paper demonstrating that, in our experiments, Claude will often strategically pretend to comply with the training objective to prevent the training process from modifying its preferences. Abstract.
What can we learn from recent empirical demonstrations of scheming in frontier models? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-faking-in-large-language-models/
What happens when you tell Claude it is being trained to do something it doesn't want to do? We (Anthropic and Redwood Research) have a new paper demonstrating that, in our experiments, Claude will often strategically pretend to comply with the training objective to prevent the training process from modifying its preferences. Abstract.
Advocates secured reforms for over a billion factory-farmed animals
If the truth is weird, you shouldn't censor weird views
Really interesting research into the structure of prime numbers. Not immediately related to the cryptanalysis of prime-number-based public-key algorithms, but every little bit matters.
Many vegans have seen how their diet and lifestyle can influence or spread to those around them. This Faunalytics study looks at the concept of social contagion and what animal advocates might be able to gain from it. The post What Vegan Advocates Can Learn From The Social Spread Of Quitting Smoking appeared first on Faunalytics.
All ethics is a special case of animal welfare science
A comparison of plant-based and animal-sourced foods uncovers differences in how they’re marketed in-store and online. The post The Marketing Landscape Of Online Groceries appeared first on Faunalytics.
Understanding and living in harmony with our core values can be thought of as our life’s work. Our values are our personal principles...
EA Forum Digest #220
Hello!. Sarah and Toby from the Forum team will be holding a virtual office hours / co-working session on Thursday, Dec 19 (tomorrow). This will be in EA Gather in this pod from 2-3 PM UK time (9-10 AM Eastern Time). Feel free to stop by to ask questions, work on a Forum post, or do any other work you have.
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On December 16, I was invited by Malaria No More UK to speak at the World Malaria Report 2024 launch in the House of Commons in London alongside malaria advocates. The reception was organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and Malaria No More UK. Together, we reaffirmed the importance of global […].
My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience
Summary: One of the largest welfare issues affecting farmed fish is poor water quality. Fish Welfare Initiative works to address this issue for these animals in India, via our farm program. The main limitation of our program right now is its scalability: We currently visit every farm individually to take measurements and provide corrective actions.
December 2024 Newsletter
In the December 2024 newsletter we celebrate J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean's 15th anniversary, announce new J-PAL partnerships, and share a new Policy Insight on expanding household electricity access.
sdicioccio
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 08:35...
If, like me, you live in the Northeast, you’ve likely found it impossible to escape the story of the month. No, not the killing of a major health care executive on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. No, not the sudden and entirely unforeseen collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the end […]...
In our 2024 holiday episode, we’re joined by Jamie Kwong, a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to explore the fascinating connection between climate change and nuclear weapons. Grab your favorite holiday drink and listen in!
Recently, I was invited by Target Malaria to speak to their Young Scientists’ Network about my advocacy work in a webinar convening young scientists from Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. What I didn’t anticipate was just how much the experience would inspire me, and remind me of why I started my personal journey with malaria […].
Summary: My sense is some EAs act like/hope they will be assigned the perfect impactful career by some combination of 80,000 Hours recommendations (and similar) and ‘perceived consensus views in EA’. But, your life is full of specific factors, many impactful jobs haven’t yet been spotted by other EAs and career advice is importantly iterative.
Tackling Micronutrient Deficiency in Bangladesh: The Role of Biofortified Zinc Rice (BZR)
gloireri
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 08:59
Malnutrition and food insecurity remain a pressing issue in Bangladesh, with significant implications for public health. Despite improvements in agricultural productivity and food security, the country continues to grapple with micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs),...
I’m Alex Cohen, Principal Researcher at GiveWell. From time to time, we get questions from people outside of GiveWell about ways they could help our research. I decided to write down a few concrete research questions that I think would be informative to us and seem doable primarily with desk-based research, rather than original data collection or field visits (though those would probably help).
Tuesday, December 17
As a Vegan Outreach Donor, you’re part of a community that understands the importance of inspiring people to go vegan. We had a big year for animals in 2024! These successes are only possible because of your support! This year we are trying to raise $175,000 which will be matched by an anonymous donor. Your […]. The post 2024 Vegan Outreach Milestones appeared first on Vegan Outreach.
Announcing a new generation of leadership for The Long Now Foundation
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