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Ryan Kidd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
958 total appearances

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Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

It's a pretty even mix of things.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

You know, we have something like maybe roughly three times as many people doing evals as doing security.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So there is like some divergence there, but we have a pretty broad portfolio.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And that's just because there's like tons of amazing researchers.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We really just like pick some of the top researchers in every category.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Yeah.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I mean, some of the oversight control researchers might be more known because this is one of the things that a lot of the companies are pursuing.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So we have people like Buck Schledgeris at Redwood Research, and his whole team are part of that.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Ethan Perez and Sam Marks and many other people at Anthropic.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We have Eric Jenner and David Linder and Victoria Krakowna and then he had DeepMind.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So yeah, just tons of people doing oversight control research.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

For interpretability, obviously we have Neil Nanda.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We have some of the Timaeus folks like Jesse Hoogle and Dan Murfitt.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We have, of course, the Goodfire people like Lee Sharkey, longtime mentors.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Some of the people from Simplex who are doing some of the very interesting stuff like Adam Shea and Paul Rikers.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And they're doing like

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I would say that this is one of the more interesting, kind of maybe more moonshotty, but very promising interp research bets that I have on the side as well.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

For evals, we have people from meter,

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We have people from UKAC, we have people from Apollo Research, Marius Hobhan, plenty of others there.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Yeah, I could go on.