Cas (Stephen Casper)

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Assistant professor @Kennedy_School @Harvard. Computer scientist working on AI safeguards, incidents, & gov research.
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Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper Oct 20

🚨New paper (possibly the most important one I have written yet).

We think that as early as 2027 or 2028, there might be a major AI-enabled terrorism event. We conducted a pre-mortem, made 9 falsifiable predictions, and wrote 2 concrete scenarios.

Led by @KamacheeMax.

Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper 5d

Great! Since I worked at the UK AI Security Inst., I have had a big appreciation for just how much contracts between companies and evaluators can influence and conceal.

Policymakers should also write laws that require public (redactable) contracts.

Jacob Charnock @charnock_jacob 5d

New GovAI post: I argue Frontier AI companies should publish their third-party evaluation contracts. This would show the conditions evaluators work under, make results easier to interpret and compare, and create incentives to improve evaluation arrangements.

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Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper Nov 3

I enjoyed talking with Ben Bauman on the Roots of Reality podcast about what the next few years (and beyond) could look like, technically and politically.

youtube.com/watch?v=rwz_D_…

www.youtube.com #246 Could AI Trigger the Next Global Crisis? with Dr. Stephen Casper Historian Ben Baumann speaks with Dr. Stephen Casper, Assistant Pro...

Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper Oct 30

I just read the proposed update to the NY RAISE Act from NY @Sen_Gounardes. Here are some things I like, plus some simple fixes that I think are still missing. 🧵

Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper Oct 28

Working on AAAI rebuttals soon? Feel free to use my rebuttal template.

docs.google.com/document/d/1iN…

docs.google.com rebuttal_template_for_openreview # Thanks + response We are thankful for your time and help, especially related to [thing(s) they discussed]. We were glad to hear that you found [something nice they said]. ## 1. [Issue title] >...