LawrenceC

Karma: 5,362

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/

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking mode

LawrenceCFeb 24, 2025, 7:32 PM

88 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

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

Ben Pace and LawrenceC

Aug 14, 2024, 12:18 AM

39 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

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

LawrenceCJul 6, 2024, 1:49 AM

38 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability

LawrenceC, rajashree, Adrià Garriga-alonso and Jason Gross

Jun 24, 2024, 7:27 PM

96 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop Happening at ICML 2024!

Neel Nanda, LawrenceC and Fazl

May 3, 2024, 1:18 AM

48 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceCApr 26, 2024, 11:22 PM

66 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

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

LawrenceCMar 4, 2024, 6:23 PM

115 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceCNov 17, 2023, 8:42 PM

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Open Phil releases RFPs on LLM Benchmarks and Forecasting

LawrenceCNov 11, 2023, 3:01 AM

53 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

LawrenceCSep 5, 2023, 7:19 PM

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

Aug 31, 2023, 12:28 AM

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

LawrenceCJul 18, 2023, 7:28 PM

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(about.fb.com)

Should we publish mechanistic interpretability research?

Marius Hobbhahn and LawrenceC

Apr 21, 2023, 4:19 PM

106 points

40 comments13 min readLW link

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

LawrenceC, Erik Jenner and Leon Lang

Mar 16, 2023, 4:38 PM

48 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Leon Lang and Erik Jenner

Mar 16, 2023, 4:37 PM

241 points

23 comments45 min readLW link 3 reviews

Sam Altman: “Planning for AGI and beyond”

LawrenceCFeb 24, 2023, 8:28 PM

104 points

54 comments6 min readLW link

(openai.com)

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

LawrenceCFeb 24, 2023, 7:57 PM

38 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(research.facebook.com)

Behavioral and mechanistic definitions (often confuse AI alignment discussions)

LawrenceCFeb 20, 2023, 9:33 PM

33 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

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

LawrenceCFeb 16, 2023, 7:47 PM

65 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

Feb 8, 2023, 6:58 PM

122 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

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