People keep misunderstanding this. I CONTRIBUTED to Bostrom’s Superintelligence book and he thanks me by name in the foreword.
I was thinking about AI safety long before 2014.
Keeping the safety and well-being of students, teachers, and their families as our foremost priority, the summer vacation for all Government and recognized private schools in the Kashmir Division and Winter Zones of Jammu Division is hereby extended up to 26th July, 2026.
Schools will now reopen on Monday, 27th July, 2026.
I request everyone to stay safe, remain vigilant, and follow the advisories issued by the concerned authorities. Wishing everyone good health and safety.
I don’t use social media to pontificate but this needs to be said.
If no off-ramp is found within the next week, history will write of this Middle East conflict as WWIII. Very soon, it will resemble a global conflict in terms of the number of countries involved, the intensity of violence, and the spread of its absolutely catastrophic consequences. Those who can must prevent this from happening.
Heavy Rain & Snow Alert in J&K (Mar 9–12)
A strong Western Disturbance is set to impact J&K from March 9 night to March 12, bringing widespread rain& snowfall.
Heavy snowfall: Sonamarg–Zojila, Sinthan Top–Peer Ki Gali, Razdan Top–Sadhna Top, Gurez Valley& other higher reaches
International Atomic Energy Agency says they can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP). No radiological consequence expected as of now.
#BREAKING: Indian Embassy in Iran has relocated most Indian students who were in Tehran to safer locations outside the city. Embassy has made arrangements for their transportation, food & accommodation. Only a small number of students who declined Embassy offer remain in Tehran.
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.