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I'm a Founder of Bioaligned Labs and Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. I've been studying complex biological systems for over 20 years and am working to extend this expertise to AI safety.
bioaligned.ai
https://www.northenlab.org/

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trent northen

I'm a Founder of Bioaligned Labs and Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. I've been studying complex biological systems for over 20 years and am working to extend this expertise to AI safety.
bioaligned.ai
https://www.northenlab.org/

A Plan ‘B’ for AI safety

TL;DR: Teaching AI the value of biology in solving future AI-relevant problems may serve as a “soft constraint” for the preservation of biological systems. We found that LLMs exhibit biases in their preferences for bioinspired vs. synthetic approaches to technical challenges. Fine-tuning on biomimicry examples increased model preferences for bioinspired...