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Can policy keep up with AI advances? | OpenAI's Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, & Jack Clark (2019)
Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, Jack Clark, Niel Bowerman, Michelle Hutchinson, Rob Wiblin
OpenAI researchers and policy experts convened to discuss a strategic framework that balances scientific transparency with safety, exemplified by the partial release of the GPT-2 model to prevent malicious applications like autonomous warfare and large-scale disinformation. The panel emphasized that short-term governance challenges mirror long-term alignment issues, proposing collaborative incentives and institutional mechanisms to avoid harmful development races while engaging with military sectors to enforce safety constraints. To accelerate these goals, speakers outlined critical career pathways for policy professionals, including newsletter creation and technical translation, while expressing optimism that robust coordination can harness AI to solve global challenges like poverty and disease.
- 80,000 Hours1h 23m
Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas
Maria Gutierrez Rojas, Matt Rudin, Bella Forestall, Cody Fenwick
Former ADK employee Maria Gutierrez Rojas joins host Matt Rudin and guests Bella Forestall and Cody Fenwick on *Mic Discipline* to analyze the organization's design choices, her departure from the role, and the phenomenon of "Club Club" dynamics. The discussion contrasts ADK's utility-focused web strategy with the team's internal philosophical conflicts, while Rojas details her transition to Open Philanthropy driven by a preference for clear incentives over advocacy work. Throughout the episode, the group examines themes of loneliness, religious influences on moral reasoning, and the tension between Effective Altruism's public posture and individual psychological needs.