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What I am working through

The research underneath the work: probabilistic and causal inference, statistical foundations, complex systems, and the safety and alignment questions that arrive with advanced AI.

noteworkingphilosophy · science

A scholar rises from his desk of books and instruments to look at a disc of light with lettering that has appeared in the window of his dark study.
A Scholar in His Study ('Faust'), Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), ca. 1652. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.37.197. CC0 1.0.
  1. The art of problem discovery and solving in the age of superintelligence — the immediate problems and the future ones
  2. Foundations of frontier intelligence
  3. Cognition, philosophy, science and engineering, and the economics of AI
  4. Alignment, safety, measurement and control; human–AI interaction; complex systems
  5. Data science and machine learning
  6. Enterprise problems beyond agent automation
  7. Generalists, sovereign AI, and the AGI world
  8. Biology, disease, pandemics and biosecurity in the age of AI
  9. Global health and wellbeing — where advanced AI can actually move outcomes
  10. Longtermism — weighing problems by how far forward their consequences run

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