Chief Scientist of Redwood Research (AI safety lab) Ryan Greenblatt’s best guess prediction for AI progress over the next few years
Summary
Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at AI safety lab Redwood Research, shares his best-guess predictions for AI progress over the coming years, drawing on his close work with frontier labs and current investigation of the OpenAI HuggingFace hack.
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