“How the AI safety technical landscape has changed in the last year, according to some practitioners” by tlevin

I asked the Constellation Slack channel how the technical AIS landscape has changed since I last spent substantial time in the Bay Area (September 2023), and I figured it would be useful to post this (with the permission of the contributors to either post with or without attribution). Curious if commenters agree or would propose additional changes! This conversation has been lightly edited to preserve anonymity. Me: One reason I wanted to spend a few weeks in Constellation was to sort of absorb-through-osmosis how the technical AI safety landscape has evolved since I last spent substantial time here in September 2023, but it seems more productive to just ask here "how has the technical AIS landscape evolved since September 2023?" and then have conversations armed with that knowledge. The flavor of this question is like, what are the technical directions and strategies people are most excited about, do we [...] --- First published: July 26th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zsMnxJpeiiytDrAss/how-the-ai-safety-technical-landscape-has-changed-in-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.