Nathan Calvin

@_NathanCalvin

General Counsel Encode AI

Washington DC

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Nathan Calvin
@_NathanCalvin
Sep 7
(TLDR: Jakubs essay is good and if he/OpenAI want to persuade people of the views he lays out, it is in their interest + the interest of everyone for them to release far more information about the extent of what is making them concerned, in order to facilitate the
Jakub Pachocki
@merettm
Sep 6
I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien…
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Nathan Calvin
@_NathanCalvin
13m
Bumping this ahead of the upcoming US China summit where AI safety/security topics are reportedly on the table. At a minimum it does seem good for the US and China to have a (rather bureaucratic) groupchat. "RSI PC small group US + China," perhaps
Karson Elmgren
@kelmgren
Jun 5
the US and China don't currently have great ways to communicate about shared threats from AI. perhaps we should at least have, well, something like a (rather bureaucratic) groupchat? sharing some provisional thoughts from @Clarissa_Koh7 and myself, eager to discuss!
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Nathan Calvin
@_NathanCalvin
18m
I also share the view that it seems ~0% that OpenAI deliberately looked at this kind of user data, but >0% that one of their notoriously resourceful and persistent internal agents might have taken a look
Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
1h
I put 0% chance any researchers at OpenAI or Anthropic look directly at specific user’s data. The amount of controls on this sort of behavior at tech companies is wild — eg when I was at meta I think you got fired immediately for doing this (or something similar).
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Nathan Calvin
@_NathanCalvin
18h
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on AI risk: "However, I share the concerns of industry insiders that advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity. AI that escapes its testing environment, or blackmails developers to prevent itself from being turned off, is AI
Volker Türk
@volker_turk
Sep 7
Protecting human rights means holding a mirror up to those in power, challenging the status quo, and pushing the boundaries. My update to the Human Rights Council: ohchr.org/en/statements-…
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Nathan Calvin
@_NathanCalvin
19h
Cool to see my X post reacting to Jakub's essay quoted in this article. The quotes are accurate, though in isolation they make me sound a little bit more critical of @merettm's essay than I feel (I thought the essay itself was excellent and i'm very glad he published it). But
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews
Sep 7
OpenAI chief scientist warns no one is prepared for consequences of AI bbc.in/4xKPfW6