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Scott Alexander is advertising for a Chief Operating Officer (COO) or operational co-founder position at an AI safety organization called Resolution. This organization is working on combining automated alignment research with deep theoretical understanding, and has recently raised $160 million from Coefficient Giving to support its growth. The COO will work closely with Geoffrey Irving, who is part of the organization, to develop organizational strategy, prioritize hiring, allocate capital, and sustain a culture that celebrates negative research results. The role will also involve leading execution and securing additional funding.
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Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever.
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ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world.
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Most content is free, some is subscriber only; you can subscribe here.
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1: Correction on the last links post: the shingles vaccine - decreased dementia connection failed to replicate in Britain and is now on thin ice.
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2: Resolution is a very new AI safety organization working on combining automated alignment research with deep theoretical understanding.
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They argue that this work requires a big organization with lots of compute, and seem on track to getting it - they recently raised $160 million from Coefficient Giving and are scaling up fast.
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They ask me to advertise that they’re looking for a COO / operational co-founder, who will:
...work side-by-side with Geoffrey Irving on organisational strategy: how to prioritise hiring?
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They’ll also lead execution, raising the next OOM of funding, building stronger partnerships with frontier companies, and making their internal systems a fantastic user experience for staff.
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In their first couple of months, Resolution have raised $160M, merged with Timaeus, secured office space, and are approaching 30 staff.
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If you’ve done things like lead a startup from pre-seed to series C, scale a research nonprofit from 20→200, or run operations at a frontier lab, please reach out to holnesstofts [at] resolution.org.
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Anthropic says their AI also did some hacking (they say the AI thought the whole thing was in a simulation, although some commentators are skeptical).
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And Peter Wildeford, Antonio Max, and Samuel Hammond share their opinions on the ‘Pacing The Frontier’ letter.
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4: Compassion Aligned Machine Learning asks me to signal-boost their survey on controversial questions in AI alignment and its relationship with non-human animals.
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They say it will take ten minutes max, and you can fill it in here.
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