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By Joe Carlsmith
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Audio versions of essays by Joe Carlsmith. Philosophy, futurism, and other topics. Text versions at joecarlsmith.com.
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How human-like do safe AI motivations need to be?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Controlling the options AIs can pursue
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Giving AIs safe motivations
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The stakes of AI moral status
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May 21, 2025 |
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Can we safely automate alignment research?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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AI for AI safety
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Paths and waystations in AI safety
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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When should we worry about AI power-seeking?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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What is it to solve the alignment problem?
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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How do we solve the alignment problem?
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Fake thinking and real thinking
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Takes on "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models"
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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(Part 2, AI takeover) Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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(Part 1, Otherness) Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Introduction and summary for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI"
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Second half of full audio for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI"
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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First half of full audio for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI"
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Loving a world you don't trust
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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On attunement
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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On green
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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On the abolition of man
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Being nicer than Clippy
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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An even deeper atheism
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Does AI risk "other" the AIs?
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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When "yang" goes wrong
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Deep atheism and AI risk
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Gentleness and the artificial Other
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Empirical work that might shed light on scheming (Section 6 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Summing up "Scheming AIs" (Section 5)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Speed arguments against scheming (Section 4.4-4.7 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Simplicity arguments for scheming (Section 4.3 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The counting argument for scheming (Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Arguments for/against scheming that focus on the path SGD takes (Section 3 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Non-classic stories about scheming (Section 2.3.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Does scheming lead to adequate future empowerment? (Section 2.3.1.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The goal-guarding hypothesis (Section 2.3.1.1 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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How useful for alignment-relevant work are AIs with short-term goals? (Section 2.2.4.3 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Is scheming more likely if you train models to have long-term goals? (Sections 2.2.4.1-2.2.4.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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"Clean" vs. "messy" goal-directedness (Section 2.2.3 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Two sources of beyond-episode goals (Section 2.2.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Two concepts of an "episode" (Section 2.2.1 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Situational awareness (Section 2.1 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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On "slack" in training (Section 1.5 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Why focus on schemers in particular? (Sections 1.3-1.4 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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A taxonomy of non-schemer models (Section 1.2 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Varieties of fake alignment (Section 1.1 of "Scheming AIs")
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Full audio for "Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?"
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Introduction and summary of "Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?"
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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In memory of Louise Glück
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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On the limits of idealized values
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May 12, 2023 |
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Predictable updating about AI risk
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May 08, 2023 |
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Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI (shorter version)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Problems of evil
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Seeing more whole
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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On sincerity
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Against meta-ethical hedonism
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Against the normative realist's wager
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Against neutrality about creating happy lives
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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On infinite ethics
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Can you control the past?
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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On clinging
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Killing the ants
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Thoughts on being mortal
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Oct 05, 2022 |