“Retrospective: 12 [sic] Months Since MIRI” by james.lucassen
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it's now been 15 months since MIRI but I just remembered that three separate people have told me they liked this post despite my not cross-posting it, so I am now cross-posting it. Not written with the intention of being useful to any particular audience, just collecting my thoughts on this past year's work.

** September-December 2023: Orienting and Threat Modeling** Until September, I was contracting full time for a project at MIRI. When the MIRI project ended, I felt very confused about lots of things in AI safety. I didn't know what sort of research would be useful for making AI safe, and I also didn't really know what my cruxes were for resolving that confusion. When people asked what I was thinking about, I usually responded with some variation of the following: MIRI traditionally says that even though their research is hard and terrible, everyone else's research is [...]

Outline:

(00:24) September-December 2023: Orienting and Threat Modeling

(04:41) January 2024: ARENA 3.0

(07:14) February-May 2024: Spring SPAR

(11:51) June-September 2024: Summer SPAR

(13:07) September 2024 - ???: CMU SEI AISIRT

(14:14) How Was This Year Overall

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First published: January 21st, 2025

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SKNTnzECnbCYSziZj/retrospective-12-sic-months-since-miri)

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