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Seth Lazar

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Seth Lazar

@sethlazar

Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation at Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy.

Washington DC

Joined August 2011

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Seth Lazar
@sethlazar
Jun 23
Announcing a 3 wk AGI Governance Fellowship at @JHUBloombergCtr School of Government and Policy. Join me, @ghadfield, @nickacaputo and guests for an intensive schedule of deep dives into AI governance at the frontier, covering topics such as societal resilience, AGI and
AGI Governance Fellowship - JHU School of Government and Policy
From sogp.jh.edu
Seth Lazar
@sethlazar
10h
I have a little AI newsletter for my lab, and I am having a hell of a time getting Claude to write up some of the critical reviews of Opus 5. Every criticism has a response/defence, it’s all “the work is fine they just don’t like the personality :p”
Seth Lazar
@sethlazar
Jul 24
Unusually good comments on my piece on moral competence @cosmos_inst. I always thought you stay away from the comments, but they are almost all human (80% ain't bad) and very insightful, worth a look
Are Frontier Models Good at Ethics?
From blog.cosmos-institute.org
Seth Lazar
@sethlazar
Jul 17
Important commentary from @Brendan_McCord. Anyone who's been deep in agent-mania knows that abdicating judgment to the agents is a recipe for midwittery, so we're spared, for now, by that particular divot in the jagged frontier. But that's a temporary bulwark.
Cosmos Institute
@cosmos_inst
Jul 17
"Anthropic applies that idea of formation to a machine with extraordinary care, and almost never to the people who use it." @Brendan_McCord, in the first piece of our new series on Anthropic's approach to forming Claude and the threat to human autonomy. blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/raising-clau…
Seth Lazar
@sethlazar
Jul 14
this is very witty
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