Nikhar Varshney

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[Nikhar Varshney @varshney_nik]

@itsriyapal No, just the access!

[Samuel Marks @saprmarks]

[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]

Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:

1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.

2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.

3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.

4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.

5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): https://t.co/TZOm3LfptY

I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Nikhar Varshney @varshney_nik]

@prakhar9431 @dkhos @Uber @Uber_Support @Uber_India @UberIN_Support Terrible loss

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@prakhar9431 @dkhos @Uber @Uber_Support @Uber_India @UberIN_Support Omg

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@striver_79 Supervise claude, Roll it on bro!! Check all Network related changes done recently 👍 #PinnacleUser

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@join2manish Saved in memories

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@striver_79 Exactly This greed is bleeding 10-15 LPA earners dry. How do we fight back?We all must unite, raiz our voizs, nforce the new 2month legal deposit cap, and mass report extortion to the Resp Authority.We have to burst this insane housing bubble befr AI bubble bursts! ✊ @striver_79

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@geekyranjit Keep it raw sir ✨

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[Nikhar Varshney @varshney_nik]

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@krishnaeyee Taj Mahal 🏛️

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@tarunvats33 #269 Signing Off
#ifykyk

[Nikhar Varshney @varshney_nik]

@malpani @zerodha @nikhilkamathcio Don't you want to be remain invested 40% of this total? Can you put some lights on your take on the financial markets (broader view) and also what concerns do you foresee, if any?

PS: Not expecting- the future is uncertain & unpredictable 😄

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@Sam0kayy AQI

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@elonmusk 𝕏

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@Memesociiety_ AI generated 🍌

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@aniketsahu_115 Just opened twitter after ages, turns out it has become X

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@spigen 🤔