Figuring how to determine legal responsibility for AI harms is one of our most urgent questions. Happy to share that my new paper on how U.S. negligence law should deal with liability for harms caused by autonomous AI agents has now been published by the Journal of Tort Law 😁

A puzzling feature of this phenomenon is why universities keep inviting tech oligarchs to give these speeches. Is it because they believe that these people don't already have a sufficiently loud megaphone?

For now, the most easily reachable and persuasive argument to me re AI welfare is basically something like having AI agents who talk to as you please and abuse as you please corrupts you badly, and this inevitably leads you to engage with others in society just as badly

The Workshop on Law-Following AI is the best conference I’ve been to this year. Also the site of some of the most helpful personal conversations I’ve had this year. Congratulations to the @law_ai_ team. Definitely the world’s leading law and AI think tank.

Stayed at Jesus College, Cambridge and gave a panel talk on legal reasoning for AI at the Workshop for Law-Following AI (@law_ai_).

A long time back, I came across a researcher's profile and saw their amazing organisation's work, cut to a few days later, I was lucky enough to be given career advice by the very same researcher and a year later i somehow get into their fellowship with access to extraordinary mentors and affiliates Today professional beginner thinker aka me got a chance to be in the presence of them and other awesome thinkers and researchers who set my brain on fire 😎 i feel so heartened, humbled and grateful to try to improve and furiously learn more that i get mistaken for RSI 👽 I am now enthusiastically thinking about research proposals to do multi-agentic systems theory work for computational "resistance" systems to act as checks and balances, persona research maybe, or llm psych mechnistic work specifically for agentic legal reasoners who must continue with letting ambiguity stay a feature yet embracing an authoritative legal disposition! Then, what even is "reasoning" encoding of these reasoning rules (normative, DDL, legal theories like canons of construction) into infra layers for lawful coordination or pro-social outcomes in other settings! Need to think on how we can break "agency" down further (machine cognition overlap) because strong discomfort present with agency handoff at this stage despite no denial of agents likely surpassing humans in capabilities -> linked to human innate values so may need to look at transitionary plans? To aid defence of our rule of law in the pursuit of protecting citizenry in an active uncompromised democracy -> look at structural pathways to avoid not only the freezing of the law's evolution but accidentally automating the ossification of other necessary socio-technical institutions (democratic intuitions/cognitive offloading in general perhaps accelerated in unanticipted ways by the reinforcement loops or bi-alignment between h2h or a2a or h2a)! How can we do LFAI-Scalable Oversight at different levels (systems based mapped to federal/state etc) and the pitfalls of that implementation (what if we got LFAI completely right/wrong). Additionally, I want to think about how to develop the eval science for LFAI/TFAI develop internal verification systems such that you can scale them for the eventual state of norm based -> constituional resilience via LFAI use! Plus, how might we anticipating practical infrastructural and systemic considerations for this critical transition period to ASI/AGI w/ regards to representitiveness committments and moral duties we ought to incubate in policy (think global south & north / socio-economic factors / political or ethical or any kind of interest alignment) as well as how to prioritise all of these ideas 😁 My goal is to now think about all the thinking done above, feedback feedback feedback, make proposals, reach out to more cool people and try my best to get somewhere 🥳 Beyond grateful to Janna, Cullen, @matthijsMmaas and everyone at the Institution of LawAI all the cool attendees I met who genuinely inspired me so much with the depth of their continuation to problem solve with humour and depth 😀 Can't wait for my fellowship to start - by which I hope I am armed with strong inclination for impactful research to help :^)

We're glad to report that our Safety Evaluations Head @gathoni_ireri actively participated in the Delphi process of Evals Consensus evals-consensus.ai/ We're looking forward to the results of the process.

Louis Theroux is legendary

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

Watched Burnham yesterday and honestly, super likable guy. Really keen to see how the details of his policy plans look.

Jack Clark is a great communicator. Compelling interview on Newsnight.

A little rich from Ramaphosa given how meekly he’s stood against the awful actions against other Africans in his country (Key metric: Compare his reaction to Malema’s)

Klarman rules.

I know someone who actually uses the word nonpulssed in ordinary conversation 😆

Randomly remembered the 264-page article I RA’d for back in 2019. Authored by the GOAT. Good times. harvardlawreview.org/print/v…

Honoured to be appointed to the Scientific Panel for the EU AI Act. It's a really top-class group; I can think of few groups I've been so excited to work as part of. It's going to be really important to get this right. Also delighted that the European Commission has gone with Eurovision Rules again, meaning that we'll be getting input from top talent from Teams Australia, USA, China, and Canada amongst others. Hoping this means we'll need to pack our sparkliest outfits, and be prepared for key changes as well as capability changes. (Seriously though, joined up thinking is so important for this, and it's absolutely the right move to be able to draw on the insights of the Bengios, Brundages and Nelsons of the world.)

AI safety - rule of law work really up these days. Genuinely big surprise for me.

Great, impressive, helpful work 🙌🏾 algorithmichiring.github.io/…

To good African students interested in research: Avoid using up your very valuable time working on hyper conceptual, trope-y work. It may seem interesting but it’s often very sloppy and, in the long run, poor use of your time.

Insane how BBC Sport comes up with these super magical audiovisual mosaics in what seems like hours