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What Ajeya Cotra thinks about open source

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AI researcher and grantmaker, known for the biological-anchors work on when transformative AI might arrive. Writes Planned Obsolescence with Kelsey Piper.

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  1. Our readingAt any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse.

    Their wordshowever at any given point in time I think the systems we need to worry most about by far are the frontier systems. By the time open source systems can do something like the hugging face attack, frontier systems are going to be on a whole another level doing something even crazier than that.

    ↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 17th of 26 in this recording

    HuggingFace

    Interesting

  3. Our readingOpen-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier.

    Their wordsI'm not sure I like agree exactly with the oversight benefit you named of like you know open source systems keeping frontier systems in check feels more unrealistic to me because they're going to be so much dumber than the frontier systems.

    ↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 18th of 26 in this recording

    Interesting