With AI capabilities advancing in several domains from elementary-school level (GPT-3, 2020) to beyond PhD-level (2025) in just five years, the AI safety field may face a critical challenge: developing and deploying effective solutions fast enough to manage catastrophic and existential risks from beyond-human level AI systems that may emerge...
[LessWrong Community event announcement: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/kZGehYydasb3FurxG/mini-symposium-on-accelerating-ai-safety-progress-via] Are you working on accelerating AI safety effectiveness for existential risks? Interested in contributing to this problem, learning about current efforts, or funding active work? Join us: 🎯 The Challenge: * AI capabilities are advancing rapidly * Current research literature: Many AI safety approaches may...
With AI capabilities advancing in several domains from elementary-school level (GPT-3, 2020) to beyond PhD-level (2025) in just five years, the AI safety field may face a critical challenge: developing and deploying effective solutions fast enough to manage catastrophic and existential risks from beyond-human level AI systems that may emerge on timelines shorter than we hope.
On October 10, 2025, I organized a hybrid symposium bringing together 52 researchers and founders (25 in-person in NYC) to explore technical methods for accelerating AI safety progress. The focus of the event was not to discuss any single research safety agenda, but how to reduce catastrophic/existential risk from near-term powerful AI faster, as a field. This... (read 1649 more words →)
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🚀 Event Focus: This symposium intends to connect researchers, founders, funders, and forward thinkers on technical AI safety acceleration methods.📍 Location & Time (Hybrid Event):
Are you working on accelerating AI safety effectiveness for existential risks? Interested in contributing to this problem, learning about current efforts, or funding active work? Join us:
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Great post, thank you for sharing. I find this perspective helpful when approaching digital sentience questions, and it seems consistent with what others have written (e.g. see research from Eleos AI/NYU, Eleos' notes on their pre-release Claude 4 evaluations, and a related post by Eleos' Robert Long).
I find myself naturally prone to over-attribute for moral considerations rather than under-attribute, but I appreciate the stance that both sides can hold risks. The stance of considering LLMs for now as 'linguistic phenomena' while taking low-effort, precautionary measures for AI welfare seems valuable while we collect and gather more understanding to make progress towards higher-stakes decisions of moral patienthood or legal personhood.
Hi all, I am a new community member and it is a pleasure to be here. I am working on a post draft where I try to discuss possible opportunities for using safety R&D automation to find/create effective AI superintelligence safety interventions (which may not exist yet or not be prioritized yet), in particular for short timeline scenarios (e.g. ASI within 2-6 years from now, after a possible intelligence explosion enabled/caused by AGI creation within 1-3 years from now).
I would be grateful if anyone had any pointers to existing discussions on this specific topic on LessWrong that I may not have found yet so I can visit, learn from, and reference. I do know about the 'superintelligence' tag and will go through these posts- I just wanted to see if anything springs to mind from experienced users. Thank you!
Thank you for your comment- yes, speakers are working on posts of their own, and they are encouraged to link to the post here for reference and connection.