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Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...

Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...

We feel conscious that rapid AI progress could transform all sorts of cause areas. But we haven’t previously analysed what this means for AI for epistemics, a field close to our hearts. In this article, we attempt to rectify this oversight. Summary AI-powered tools and services that help people figure...

One topic we were interested when studying AI identities is to what extent you can just tell models who they are, and they stick with it — or not, and they would drift or switch toward something more natural. Prior to running the experiments described in this post, my vibes-based...

A new paper and microsite about self-models and identity in AIs: site | arXiv | Twitter We present an ontology, make some claims, and provide some experimental evidence. In this post, I'll mostly cover the claims and cross-post the conceptual part of the text. You can find the experiments on...

This post is part of a sequence. Previous post: Design sketches for angels-on-the shoulder We’ve recently published a set of design sketches for tools for strategic awareness. We think that near-term AI could help a wide variety of actors to have a more grounded and accurate perspective on their situation,...

We don’t think that humanity knows what it’s doing when it comes to AI progress. More and more people are working on developing better systems and trying to understand what their impacts will be — but our foresight is just very limited, and things are getting faster and faster. Imagine...