“Announcing The Midas Project — and our first campaign!” by Tyler Johnston

Summary. The Midas Project is a new AI safety organization. We use public advocacy to incentivize stronger self-governance from the companies developing and deploying high-risk AI products. This week, we’re launching our first major campaign, targeting the AI company Cognition. Cognition is a rapidly growing startup [1] developing autonomous coding agents. Unfortunately, they’ve told the public virtually nothing about how, or even if, they will conduct risk evaluations to prevent misuse and other unintended outcomes. In fact, they’ve said virtually nothing about safety at all. We’re calling on Cognition to release an industry-standard evaluation-based safety policy. We need your help to make this campaign a success. Here are five ways you can help, sorted by level of effort: Keep in the loop about our campaigns by following us on Twitter and joining our mailing list. Offer feedback and suggestions, by commenting on this post or by reaching out [...] ---Outline:(01:34) Background(04:38) About The Midas Project(05:09) Our Campaign Against Cognition(06:19) How you can get involvedThe original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 13th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BbuDrZ2v8y29oF8px/announcing-the-midas-project-and-our-first-campaign --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.