Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) is accepting applications for AI Safety / AI Assurance research grants. They are offering up to $750k per project accepted, expended over 6-24 months. 1-2 page expression of interest due August 1. Applicants should be based at an academic institution or...

Google and Microsoft are integrating their LLMs, PaLM and GPT-4 respectively, into their cybersecurity services. They basically have two uses cases: 1. Better User Interfaces + Analysis Help for Security Analysts Using the LLM to explain incidents (cyberattacks or things that might be attacks) in natural language, and answer questions...

Disclaimer: The U.S. government selectively declassified this report for unknown reasons, and anti-Chinese-Communist-Party sentiment is high in Washington D.C. While I doubt this means the contents are factually inaccurate, it is likely framed to highlight dangerous or unethical aspects of CCP activity, and likely suffers from whatever bias one would...

The Harvard AI Safety Team and MIT AI Alignment, supported by the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI), are excited to announce a 3-day workshop on AI Governance, Policy, and Strategy (GPS) on President’s Day weekend (February 17th-20th) in Washington, DC. The workshop is designed for those looking to explore or...

TL:DR I designed an experiment where I committed to spend two 12 hour days trying to learn as much deep-learning math as possible, basically from scratch. Table of Contents 1. Origins and Motivations 2. Results 3. Takeaways 4. Experiment set-up 5. The Curriculum 6. Documentation on hours Origins and Motivations...