Introduction to a series of essays about paths to safe and useful superintelligence. 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/how-do-we-solve-the-alignment-problem

When the line pulls at your hand. 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/01/28/fake-thinking-and-real-thinking/. 

What can we learn from recent empirical demonstrations of scheming in frontier models? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-faking-in-large-language-models/

Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel. This part focuses on the basic story about AI takeover. Transcript available on my website here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/09/30/part-2-ai-takeover-extended-audio-transcript-from-my-conversation-with-dwarkesh-patel

Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel. This part focuses on my series "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." Transcript available on my website here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/09/30/part-1-otherness-extended-audio-transcript-from-my-conversation-with-dwarkesh-patel/

This is the introduction and summary for my series "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

Second half of the full audio for my series on how agents with different values should relate to one another, and on the ethics of seeking and sharing power. 

First half here: https://joecarlsmithaudio.buzzsprout.com/2034731/15266490-first-half-of-full-audio-for-otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

PDF of the full series here: https://jc.gatspress.com/pdf/otherness_full.pdf
Summary of the series here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

First half of the full audio for my series on how agents with different values should relate to one another, and on the ethics of seeking and sharing power. 

Second half here: https://joecarlsmithaudio.buzzsprout.com/2034731/15272132-second-half-of-full-audio-for-otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

PDF of the full series here: https://jc.gatspress.com/pdf/otherness_full.pdf
Summary of the series here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

Garden, campfire, healing water.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/06/18/loving-a-world-you-dont-trust

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

Examining a certain kind of meaning-laden receptivity to the world.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/25/on-attunement

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)