Jacques Thibodeau

Jacques Thibodeau

May
10

Quantum Computing, Photonics, and Energy Bottlenecks for AGI

💡Note: I wrote this post in less than a day and didn't want to spend more time on it, but
10 min read
May
03

AI Insights #1: How Misalignment Could Lead to Takeover & Necessary Safety Properties

AI safety insights number 1: risks of misaligned AI takeover, key properties of AGI safety plans, and dangers of autonomous AI agents maximizing rewards in unintended ways as models advance.
4 min read
Jan
23

My current research and request for collaborators

I wrote this as a bio for EAG Bay Area 2024. I'm sharing this here because it gives an overview
3 min read
Dec
29

But is it really in Rome? Limitations of the ROME model editing technique

I just published a new post on LessWrong. It's about the causal tracing and model editing paper (ROME). Here's the
2 min read
Dec
29

An incomplete list of projects I'd like to work on in 2023

Wrote up a short (incomplete) bullet-point list of the projects I'd like to work on in 2023. Here's the link.
Dec
19

(Linkpost) Results for a survey of tool use and workflows in alignment research

In March 22nd, 2022, we released a survey with an accompanying post for the purpose of getting more insight into
1 min read
Dec
16

How learning efficiently applies to alignment research

As we are trying to optimize for actually solving the problem, we should not fall into the trap of learning
2 min read
Dec
07

Differential Training Process: Delaying capabilities until inner aligned

I've been ruminating on an idea ever since I read the section on deception in "The Core of the Alignment
3 min read
Dec
07

Near-Term AI capabilities probably bring low-hanging fruits for global poverty/health

I'm an alignment researcher, but I still think we should be vigilant about how models like GPT-N could potentially be
1 min read
Dec
05

Is the "Valley of Confused Abstractions" real?

Epistemic Status: Quite confused. Using this short post as a signal for discussion. Here's a link to the LessWrong post
3 min read