TL;DR Modern LLMs have been known to express functional welfare states such as flourishing and distress; however, most current studies determine the welfare state based on the model's self-report. This may not be a faithful representation of the model's actual welfare state, so in an effort to determine a more...
Summary: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) causes an erosion in the economic opportunities available for employment and a philosophical erosion with regard to how much we are able to contribute to those tasks efficiently, this post proposes the idea of ingraining human involvement as a design objective for future AI. The...
A Gödelian Way of thinking about limits to AI and potential economic outcomes arising from these shortcomings Motivations: As an incoming college freshman about to place a fairly important bet on what might be worth studying so as to remain relevant at the end of four years, I have been...
This post is intended as a brief overview of an independent research project in mechanistic interpretability. I am open to feedback, criticism, and any thoughts on the work. This project started off as an exploration into mechanistic interpretability and an opportunity to learn some tools in interpretability. It was during...