Joe Carlsmith

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Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy. Doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford. Opinions my own.

Video and transcript of talk on automating alignment research

Joe CarlsmithApr 30, 2025, 5:43 PM

21 points

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Can we safely automate alignment research?

Joe CarlsmithApr 30, 2025, 5:37 PM

45 points

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AI for AI safety

Joe CarlsmithMar 14, 2025, 3:00 PM

78 points

13 comments17 min readLW link

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Paths and waystations in AI safety

Joe CarlsmithMar 11, 2025, 6:52 PM

41 points

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When should we worry about AI power-seeking?

Joe CarlsmithFeb 19, 2025, 7:44 PM

20 points

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What is it to solve the alignment problem?

Joe CarlsmithFeb 13, 2025, 6:42 PM

31 points

6 comments19 min readLW link

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How do we solve the alignment problem?

Joe CarlsmithFeb 13, 2025, 6:27 PM

63 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

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Fake thinking and real thinking

Joe CarlsmithJan 28, 2025, 8:05 PM

106 points

11 comments38 min readLW link

Takes on “Alignment Faking in Large Language Models”

Joe CarlsmithDec 18, 2024, 6:22 PM

105 points

7 comments62 min readLW link

Incentive design and capability elicitation

Joe CarlsmithNov 12, 2024, 8:56 PM

31 points

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Option control

Joe CarlsmithNov 4, 2024, 5:54 PM

28 points

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Motivation control

Joe CarlsmithOct 30, 2024, 5:15 PM

45 points

7 comments52 min readLW link

How might we solve the alignment problem? (Part 1: Intro, summary, ontology)

Joe CarlsmithOct 28, 2024, 9:57 PM

54 points

5 comments32 min readLW link

Video and transcript of presentation on Otherness and control in the age of AGI

Joe CarlsmithOct 8, 2024, 10:30 PM

35 points

1 comment27 min readLW link

What is it to solve the alignment problem? (Notes)

Joe CarlsmithAug 24, 2024, 9:19 PM

69 points

18 comments53 min readLW link

Value fragility and AI takeover

Joe CarlsmithAug 5, 2024, 9:28 PM

76 points

5 comments30 min readLW link

A framework for thinking about AI power-seeking

Joe Carlsmith24 Jul 2024 22:41 UTC

62 points

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Loving a world you don’t trust

Joe Carlsmith18 Jun 2024 19:31 UTC

135 points

13 comments33 min readLW link

On “first critical tries” in AI alignment

Joe Carlsmith5 Jun 2024 0:19 UTC

54 points

8 comments14 min readLW link

On attunement

Joe Carlsmith25 Mar 2024 12:47 UTC

100 points

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