Fathom Radiant is an EA-recommended company whose stated mission is to “make a difference in how safely advanced AI systems are developed and deployed”. They propose to do that by developing “a revolutionary optical fabric that is low latency, high bandwidth, and low power. The result is a single machine with a network capacity of a supercomputer, which enables programming flexibility and unprecedented scaling to models that are far larger than anything yet conceived.” I can see how this will improve model capabilities, but how is this supposed to advance AI safety?
What is Fathom Radiant’s theory of change?
Fathom Radiant is an EA-recommended company whose stated mission is to “make a difference in how safely advanced AI systems are developed and deployed”. They propose to do that by developing “a revolutionary optical fabric that is low latency, high bandwidth, and low power. The result is a single machine with a network capacity of a supercomputer, which enables programming flexibility and unprecedented scaling to models that are far larger than anything yet conceived.” I can see how this will improve model capabilities, but how is this supposed to advance AI safety?