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This is the Alignment journal development blog series We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment and outlined our features and policies. In this next cross-post from our blog, we describe how we expect AI progress to shape the journal. Future posts will discuss our theory of change,...
We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features and policies of the journal, including experiments like reviewer compensation and reviewer abstracts. It is the first in a series of posts that will go on to discuss...
tl;dr We’re incubating an academic journal for AI alignment: rapid peer-review of foundational Alignment research that the current publication ecosystem underserves. Key bets: paid attributed review, reviewer-written synthesis abstracts, and targeted automation. Contact us if you’re interested in participating as an author, reviewer, or editor, or if you know someone...
tl;dr This post is an update on the Proceedings of ILIAD, a conference journal for AI alignment research intended to bridge the gap between the Alignment Forum and academia. Following our successful first issue with 9 workshop papers from last year's ILIAD conference, we're launching a second issue in association...
TLDR: Vacuum decay is a hypothesized scenario where the universe's apparent vacuum state could transition to a lower-energy state. According to current physics models, if such a transition occurred in any location — whether through rare natural fluctuations or by artificial means — a region of "true vacuum" would propagate...
Authors: Jess Riedel and Angelica Deibel Cross-posted to EA Forum In this post we present the first public version of our bibliographic database of research on the safety of transformative artificial intelligence (TAI). The primary motivations for assembling this database were to: 1. Aid potential donors in assessing organizations focusing...
Crossposted from my blog Summary In this post I review the 2010 book “Lifecycle Investing” by Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff. (Amazon link here; no commission received.) They argue that a large subset of investors should adopt a (currently) unconventional strategy: One’s future retirement contributions should effectively be treated as...