Sammy Martin

Karma: 2,254

AI Governance researcher with Polaris Ventures, formerly of the MTAIR project, TFI and Center on Long-term Risk, Graduate researcher at Kings and AI MSc at Edinburgh. Interested in philosophy, longtermism and AI Alignment.

Analysis of Global AI Governance Strategies

Sammy Martin, Justin Bullock and Corin Katzke

Dec 4, 2024, 10:45 AM

49 points

10 comments36 min readLW link

How difficult is AI Alignment?

Sammy MartinSep 13, 2024, 3:47 PM

44 points

6 comments23 min readLW link

AI Constitutions are a tool to reduce societal scale risk

Sammy MartinJul 25, 2024, 11:18 AM

30 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

A Model-based Approach to AI Existential Risk

Sammy Martin, Lonnie Chrisman and Aryeh Englander

Aug 25, 2023, 10:32 AM

45 points

9 comments32 min readLW link

Ten Levels of AI Alignment Difficulty

Sammy MartinJul 3, 2023, 8:20 PM

138 points

24 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

When is intent alignment sufficient or necessary to reduce AGI conflict?

JesseClifton, Sammy Martin and Anthony DiGiovanni

Sep 14, 2022, 7:39 PM

40 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

When would AGIs engage in conflict?

JesseClifton, Sammy Martin and Anthony DiGiovanni

Sep 14, 2022, 7:38 PM

52 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

When does technical work to reduce AGI conflict make a difference?: Introduction

JesseClifton, Sammy Martin and Anthony DiGiovanni

Sep 14, 2022, 7:38 PM

52 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Uncontrollable Super-Powerful Explosives

Sammy MartinApr 2, 2022, 8:13 PM

55 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Modeling Failure Modes of High-Level Machine Intelligence

Ben Cottier, Daniel_Eth and Sammy Martin

Dec 6, 2021, 1:54 PM

54 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy MartinOct 9, 2021, 7:01 PM

47 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

Takeoff Speeds and Discontinuities

Sammy Martin and Daniel_Eth

Sep 30, 2021, 1:50 PM

63 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

Investigating AI Takeover Scenarios

Sammy MartinSep 17, 2021, 6:47 PM

31 points

1 comment27 min readLW link

Distinguishing AI takeover scenarios

Sam Clarke and Sammy Martin

Sep 8, 2021, 4:19 PM

74 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

Analogies and General Priors on Intelligence

riceissa and Sammy Martin

Aug 20, 2021, 9:03 PM

57 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

SDM’s Shortform

Sammy MartinJul 23, 2020, 2:53 PM

4 points

26 comments LW link

Modelling Continuous Progress

Sammy MartinJun 23, 2020, 6:06 PM

30 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Coronavirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM

71 points

11 comments18 min readLW link

Will AI undergo discontinuous progress?

Sammy MartinFeb 21, 2020, 10:16 PM

27 points

21 comments20 min readLW link

The Value Definition Problem

Sammy MartinNov 18, 2019, 7:56 PM

15 points

6 comments11 min readLW link