[WIP] Incentives in AI Safety
We are in a period of unprecedented growth in AI safety, but resources and media attention concentrate heavily on harms caused by accidental model failures a...
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Artificial Intelligence
Interpreting vision models with sparse dictionary learning: a case for hierarchical learning
Recently, Anthropic demonstrated the power of sparse dictionary learning as an interpretability tool in a large language model. They applied the method to a ...
Mitigating LLM Sycophancy
A sycophantic AI is easily manipulated by the user to give an incorrect response. The model provides the correct answer to a neutral prompt, but pri...
Demonstrating LLM Sycophancy
A sycophantic AI is easily manipulated by the user to give an incorrect response. The model provides the correct answer to a neutral prompt, but pri...
Career
Mentors, Advisors, Advocates (and Allies)
Your job is not your career
Getting a job in a new field
Here is all my advice about getting a job, particularly if you are coming from academia or switching fields. If you are considering a career change, I recomm...
Failing repeatedly
What we (don’t) say about failure