Jack Clark
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Please reassess what you're doing | Rob Wiblin
Rob Wiblin, Jack Clark, David Robinson, Ezra Klein
The briefing mandates that AI staff rigorously reassess their projects to ensure they actively delay or secure recursive self-improvement (RSI) rather than accelerating timelines toward autonomous AI R&D. As monitoring of Chain-of-Thought processes declines and consensus suggests full R&D automation could occur by 2027, the guidance prioritizes fundamental alignment research, white-box detection systems, and regulatory targeting over commercial growth or superficial safety patches. Employees are instructed to either justify their work's contribution to safety or transfer to organizations like Resolution, leveraging collective bargaining to slow RSI progress until automated alignment and security frameworks mature.
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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.