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This morning, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models released its draft report. At the request of Governor Newsom, the report outlines guiding policy principles that can inform California's frontier AI policy. A quick 🧵:

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NEW WORKING PAPER Many people warn that LLMs pose threats to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. How should we evaluate these claims? In this project, we discuss limitations of existing evaluations and present our own framework (1/6)

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When you peer inside a large language model’s black box, you can see what it tells you when it thinks you’re rich—and what it tells you when it thinks you’re not. Jonathan Zittrain on the assumptions AI makes about people: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"People are already trusting today’s friendly, patient, often insightful AIs for facts and guidance on nearly any issue," writes Jonathan Jonathan Zittrain, "and they will be vulnerable to being misled and manipulated, whether by design or by emergent behavior." loom.ly/tK04LWo

Should judges use LLMs like ChatGPT to determine the meaning of legal text? Whatever your answer, it’s already happening… Peter Henderson, Kart Kandula, Faiz Surani, and I explain why this is a dangerous idea in a recent article for Lawfare... 🧵 (1/10)

I’m calling for a six-month moratorium on AI progress. Not for safety, just so I can take a nap.

Re: “At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI” — What Actually Happened Just saw a news report about the FrontierMath Symposium (hosted by @epochai). While AI is advancing at an incredible pace, I think some parts of the report were a bit exaggerated and could

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The final report from Gov Newsom’s working group on AI frontier models is out and it touches on things we Anthropic care about, specifically transparency into AI development and potential risks from increasingly powerful systems. cafrontieraigov.org

The wonderful Jonathan Zittrain on #AI with Jon Favreau youtu.be/d_fdqhFBwgA?si…