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Convergence 2024 Impact Review home page. Impact overview 2024 marked the first full year with the new Convergence Analysis 9-person team. This year we published 20 articles on understanding and governing transformative AI. Our research impacted regulatory frameworks internationally. In the US we provided consultation to the Bureau of Industry...
Note: This report was conducted in June 2024 and is based on research originally commissioned by the Future of Life Foundation (FLF). The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not represent the positions of FLF. This report investigates Training Data Attribution (TDA)...
Note: This report was conducted in June 2024 and is based on research originally commissioned by the Future of Life Foundation (FLF). The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not represent the positions of FLF. This report investigates Training Data Attribution (TDA)...
Cross-posted on our website: https://www.convergenceanalysis.org/publications/ai-clarity-an-initial-research-agenda Cross-posted on the EA Forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JyhoTRXxYvLfFycXi/ai-clarity-an-initial-research-agenda Executive Summary Transformative AI (TAI) has the potential to solve many of humanity's most pressing problems, but it may also pose an existential threat to our future. This significant potential of TAI warrants careful study of the AI’s possible...
Cross-posted on the EA Forum. Executive Summary We’re excited to introduce Convergence Analysis - a research non-profit & think-tank with the mission of designing a safe and flourishing future for humanity in a world with transformative AI. In the past year, we’ve brought together an interdisciplinary team of 10 academics...
This post was written for Convergence Analysis. Overview We argue that many people should consider the risk that they could cause harm by developing or sharing (true) information. We think that harm from such information hazards may sometimes be very substantial, and that this applies especially to people who research...
This post was written for Convergence Analysis. Many altruistic actions have downside risks; they might turn out to have negative effects, or to even be negative overall. Perhaps, for example, the biosecurity research you might do could pose information hazards, the article you might write could pose memetic downside risks,...