The goal of this post is to collect feedback on a new project idea. This work would be a collaboration between the AI Objectives Institute (AOI), MetaGov and other partner institutions.
Project PIs: Bruno Marnette (AOI) and Philipp Zahn (MetaGov, 20squares).
Special thanks to Colleen McKenzie, Matija Franklin, Timothy Telleen-Lawton, Gaia Dempsay, Ping Yee, Justin Stimatze, Cleo Nardo, Tushant Jha, Deger Turan and others for feedback and review.
Motivations
Humans routinely model what the incentives of other humans may be. Historians look at the incentives of powerful individuals to explain why they made specific decisions. Journalists look at the incentives of large companies to uncover collusions and conflicts of interests. Economists use incentive models to understand ... (read 3639 more words →)
Thanks Roger.
We didn't list "making money" because we've been thinking of this as a non-profit project and we believe it could be useful to the world to build this as an open-source product, if only for the sake of trust and transparency. But we would indeed be very open to partnering with a think tank or any for-profit institution as long as the collaboration is compatible with an open-source strategy and does not create the wrong incentives.
I appreciate the tips on prompt engineering and resourcing. I expect we will indeed need to iterate a lot on the prompts to and this will require hard work and discipline. I'm hoping we can... (read more)