I have been teaching CS 2881r: AI safety and alignment this semester. While I plan to do a longer recap post once the semester is over, I thought I'd share some of what I've learned so far, and use this opportunity to also get more feedback.

Lectures are recorded and uploaded to a youtube playlist, and @habryka has kindly created a wikitag for this course, so you can view lecture notes here .

Let's start with the good parts

Aspects that are working:

Experiments are working well! I am trying something new this semester - every lecture there is a short presentation by a group of students who are carrying out a small experiment related to this lecture. (For example, in lecture 1 there was an experiment on generalizations of emergent misalignment by @Valerio Pepe ). I was worried that the short time will not allow [...]

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Outline:

(00:39) Aspects that are working:

(02:50) Aspects that perhaps could work better:

(04:20) Aspects I am unsure of

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.