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“Questions for labs” by Zach Stein-Perlman


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Associated with AI Lab Watch, I sent questionnaires to some labs a week ago (except I failed to reach Microsoft). I didn't really get any replies (one person replied in their personal capacity; this was very limited and they didn't answer any questions). Here are most of those questions, with slight edits since I shared them with the labs + similar questions condensed into the last two sections.

Lots of my questions are normal I didn't find public info on this safety practice and I think you should explain questions. Some are more like it's pretty uncool that I can't find the answer to this — like: breaking commitments, breaking not-quite-commitments and not explaining, having ambiguity around commitments, and taking credit for stuff[1] when it's very unclear that you should get credit are pretty uncool.

Anthropic[2]

Internal governance stuff (I'm personally particularly interested in these questions—I think Anthropic has [...]

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Outline:

(00:52) Anthropic

(05:35) OpenAI

(09:28) DeepMind

(11:59) Microsoft

(13:31) Meta

(13:52) OpenAI-Microsoft relationship

(14:12) Everyone (or, like, at least three of them) \[less important\]

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

April 30th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jbJ7FynonxFXeoptf/questions-for-labs

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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