Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) / X

Connor Leahy

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Connor Leahy

@NPCollapse

US Director @ControlAI - Leave me anonymous feedback: bit.ly/3RZbu7x - I don't know how to save the world, but dammit I'm gonna try

Washington D.C.

Joined January 2019

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Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Oct 29, 2025
Announcing the Torchbearer Community (TBC)! Do you want to spend 3-8h per week together with other highly motivated people, working on impactful, self-directed projects to build a desirable, humanist future? Apply now!
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Jun 14, 2024
I think this tweet is one of the biggest advances in utilitarian philosophy of the 21st century
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Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Jun 14, 2024
Replying to @Rohanburdened
most normal utilitarian
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Jan 20, 2024
I nominate Alan Turing for the first DeTuring Award.
Yann LeCun
@ylecun
Jan 20, 2024
I propose the creation of the DeTuring Award. It will be granted to people who are consistently trying (and failing) to deter society from using computer technology by scaring everyone with imaginary risks. As the Turing Award is the Nobel Prize of computing, the DeTuring Award
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Mar 4, 2024
Remember when labs said if they saw models showing even hints of self awareness, of course they would immediately shut everything down and be super careful? "Is the water in this pot feeling a bit warm to any of you fellow frogs? Nah, must be nothing."
Alex Albert
@alexalbert__
Mar 4, 2024
Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval. For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Mar 3, 2024
Replying to @tszzl
Thanks for your response roon. You make a lot of good, well put points. It's extremely difficult to discuss "high meta" concepts like spirituality, duty and memetics even in the best of circumstances, so I appreciate that we can have this conversation even through the psychic
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Feb 15, 2024
This is the kind of stuff that makes me think that there will be no period of sorta stupid, human-level AGI. Humans can't perceive 3 hours of video at the same time. The first AGI will instantly be vastly superhuman at many, many relevant things.
Jeff Dean
@JeffDean
Feb 15, 2024
Replying to @JeffDean
Video haystack For video, Gemini 1.5 Pro achieves 100% recall when looking for different visual needles hidden in ~3 hours of video.
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Oct 13, 2023
If we build machines that are more capable than all humans, then the future will belong to them, not to us. Everything else derives from this simple observation. Thank you @cambridgeunion for inviting me to make the case that "This House Believes AI Is An Existential Threat."
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Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
May 2, 2025
This is purely anecdotal, but when the chatgpt glazing update hit, the number of "universal theories of intelligence and consciousness" I received in my inbox exploded to at least 10x as many per day as usual.
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Sep 21, 2023
I had a great time addressing the House of Lords about extinction risk from AGI. They were attentive and discussed some parallels between where we are now and non-nuclear proliferation efforts during the Cold War. It certainly provided me with some food for thought, and some
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Aug 8, 2023
This tweet resulted in me getting a notification with a pretty threatening aura
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Aug 8, 2023
Large language models have demonstrated a surprising range of skills and behaviors. How can we trace their source? In our new paper, we use influence functions to find training examples that contribute to a given model output.
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Jun 6, 2019
Hey @OpenAI, I've replicated GPT2-1.5B in full and plan on releasing it to the public on July 1st. I sent you an email with the model. For my reasoning why, please read my post: medium.com/@NPCollapse/gp… #machinelearning #gpt2 #aisafety
GPT2, Counting Consciousness and the Curious Hacker
From medium.com
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Mar 2, 2024
Replying to @NPCollapse
It took me a long time to understand what people like Nietzsche were yapping on about about people practically begging to have their agency be taken away from them. It always struck me as authoritarian cope, justification for wannabe dictators to feel like they're doing a favor
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
Mar 25, 2025
I turned 30 today! I've learned a lot over the last 10 years. So I've written 30 micro-essays on 30 things I learned, from least to most schizo! Link in next tweet