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Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
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What the executive order means for openness in AI
Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details
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Arvind Narayanan
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How Transparent Are Foundation Model Developers?
Introducing the Foundation Model Transparency Index
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Evaluating LLMs is a minefield
Annotated slides from a recent talk
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Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop
By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially…
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One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop
It's been an eventful year
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Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?
A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
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Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science
ML-based science is in trouble. Clear reporting standards for researchers could help.
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AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil
What makes AI click, what makes it fail, and how to tell the difference

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