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When the only strategy to understand the universe is truth-seeking, you build a truth-seeking machine
Devin Kim
@devindkim
San Francisco
Joined February 2023
- Building societal-scale mitigations for risks from AI, especially in the next few years, is one of the most urgent problems to be working on. The Center for AI Safety has accomplished a lot in the past 4 years including field-building initiatives and safety research, and isBig news from @CAIS: Devin Kim (formerly @xai, @scale_AI) joins as President. We're launching the @FrontierSecInst, a DC-based org bridging frontier AI and the National Security Enterprise. Frontier AI is a national security technology. It's time to act like it. ⬇️
- new paper showing that AI models have functional wellbeing and behave accordingly! grok is the happiest model lolShould we care about AI happiness? In our new research, we find evidence of functional AI wellbeing across several independent measures. We find which AI models are happiest, how to make them happier, and even tested the effects of AI drugs. 🧵
- September was my last month at xAI! I joined as one of the first members of the post-training team in 2024 and eventually led research tooling, where we built some of the world’s best systems to accelerate Grok’s development. On my first day, I was at the whiteboard with @ibab
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