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A Manhattan Project for AI Safety

The case for being proactive

May 15 •

April 2023

The order of AI risks matters

How well we adapt to AGI will determine our response to ASI

Apr 26 •

Polluting the agentic commons

What happens when GPT agents go viral?

Apr 13 •

Thinking out loud, or talking in your head?

The language of thought is language

Apr 12 •

OpenAI’s big lesson for science policy

Proving the power of Focused Research Organizations

Apr 11 •

Links and tweets 4/7/23

America as a suboptimal currency zone

Apr 7 •

The adverse selection of political "moderates"

On the lemons among our leadership

Apr 7 •

JD Vance is right

Reserve currency status is a resource curse

Apr 6 •

Links and tweets 4/5/23

Labor market slack edition

Apr 5 •

Artificial neural nets are good enough

A case of being the same but different

Apr 5 •

K-12 needs an R&D budget

An ARPA for education deserves a second look

Apr 4 •

Second Best is getting an old school blog

For quick takes you may not want flooding your inbox

Apr 4 •

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