LawrenceC

Karma: 5,235

I do AI Alignment research. Currently at METR, but previously at: Redwood Research, UC Berkeley, Good Judgment Project.

I’m also a part-time fund manager for the LTFF.

Obligatory research billboard website: https://chanlawrence.me/

Debate: Is it ethical to work at AI capabilities companies?

Ben Pace and LawrenceC

14 Aug 2024 0:18 UTC

36 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What progress have we made on automated auditing?

LawrenceC6 Jul 2024 1:49 UTC

38 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability

LawrenceC, rajashree, Adrià Garriga-alonso and Jason Gross

24 Jun 2024 19:27 UTC

96 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop Happening at ICML 2024!

Neel Nanda, LawrenceC and Fazl

3 May 2024 1:18 UTC

48 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC

64 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Anthropic release Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance

LawrenceC4 Mar 2024 18:23 UTC

115 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Open Phil releases RFPs on LLM Benchmarks and Forecasting

LawrenceC11 Nov 2023 3:01 UTC

53 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceC5 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC

220 points

10 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)

Linch, calebp99, abergal, habryka, Thomas Larsen, LawrenceC and Lauro Langosco

31 Aug 2023 0:28 UTC

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Meta announces Llama 2; “open sources” it for commercial use

LawrenceC18 Jul 2023 19:28 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(about.fb.com)

Should we publish mechanistic interpretability research?

Marius Hobbhahn and LawrenceC

21 Apr 2023 16:19 UTC

105 points

40 comments13 min readLW link

[Appendix] Natural Abstractions: Key Claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Erik Jenner and Leon Lang

16 Mar 2023 16:38 UTC

48 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Leon Lang and Erik Jenner

16 Mar 2023 16:37 UTC

237 points

23 comments45 min readLW link 3 reviews

Sam Altman: “Planning for AGI and beyond”

LawrenceC24 Feb 2023 20:28 UTC

104 points

54 comments6 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Meta “open sources” LMs competitive with Chinchilla, PaLM, and code-davinci-002 (Paper)

LawrenceC24 Feb 2023 19:57 UTC

38 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(research.facebook.com)

Behavioral and mechanistic definitions (often confuse AI alignment discussions)

LawrenceC20 Feb 2023 21:33 UTC

33 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Paper: The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models (Anthropic)

LawrenceC16 Feb 2023 19:47 UTC

65 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

8 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC

121 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI/Microsoft announce “next generation language model” integrated into Bing/Edge

LawrenceC7 Feb 2023 20:38 UTC

79 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.microsoft.com)