Our new campaign in Canada, backed by over 30 MPs and Senators, is cause for real optimism. For the first time, a cross-party coalition of Canadian lawmakers is calling for an international ban on developing superintelligence, recognizing the extinction risk it poses. 🧵

SPAR is an online AI safety research program. If you'd like to work with me, submit an application -- applications close tomorrow! sparai.org/projects/sp26/rec…

I'm a SPAR mentor, if you'd like to work on solving Anthropic cyber espionage type attacks, please do apply!

David Williams-King 🎤 David spent four years as the founding CTO of a cybersecurity insurance startup that raised over $20M, leading a 20 person team. Now, David has transitioned to AI safety and works as a research scientist under AI godfather Yoshua Bengio. He completed his PhD at Columbia University focusing on low-level security of program binaries and his work has allowed programs to continuously modify their own code at runtime, making them much harder to attack. David focuses on AI risk communication, and jailbreaks and misuse risk in the cyber domain. He once received an award at an ACM Turing Award ceremony, and was called the "best teaching assistant ever" by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C .

🚨 Announcing HackAPrompt 2.0, the World's Largest AI Red Teaming competition 🚨 It's simple: "Jailbreak" or Hack the AI models to say or do things they shouldn't. Compete for over $110,000 in prizes. Sponsored by @OpenAI, @CatoNetworks, @pangeacyber, and many others. Starting NOW to July 1st. 🧵

Two years ago, I've reoriented my research to try to make AI safe by design. In this @TIME op-ed, I present my team's direction called "Scientist AI"; a practical, effective and more secure alternative to the current uncontrolled agency-driven trajectory. time.com/7283507/safer-ai-de…

David Williams-King - @deepelfery 🎤 David spent four years as the founding CTO of a cybersecurity insurance startup that raised over $20M, leading a 20 person team. Now, David has transitioned to AI safety and works as a research scientist under AI godfather Yoshua Bengio. He completed his PhD at Columbia University focusing on low-level security of program binaries and his work has allowed programs to continuously modify their own code at runtime, making them much harder to attack. David focuses on AI risk communication, and jailbreaks and misuse risk in the cyber domain. He also runs a YouTube channel and other social media accounts about AI and AI safety. David once received an award at an ACM Turing Award ceremony, and he was once called the "best teaching assistant ever" by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C .

Yoshua Bengio's research plan to build safe Al has been published! The paper is something I've been helping with, a big group effort. lesswrong.com/posts/p5gBcoQe…

I'll be at Neurips in Vancouver next week. Message me if you'd like to chat!

A new study showed ChatGPT achieved 90% accuracy in medical diagnosis, outperforming both human doctors (74%) and doctors using ChatGPT (76%) So much progress to be made for AI and healthcare. Really cool to already start seeing these results already x.com/gdb/status/18583373465…

For security folks, David Lie is recruiting a postdoc at U of Toronto security.csl.toronto.edu/pos…

My research group @kasl_ai is looking for interns! Applications are due in 2 weeks ***January 29***. The long-awaited form: forms.gle/iLU1uQAxZ2UKENw5A Please share widely!!

We have had 8 people purchase the complete vx-underground collection - an external harddrive featuring everything we currently have in our collection. Beside a handwritten thank you letter, it will feature a giant warning label somewhere on it. If you mount this drive on Windows ... DISABLE ALL ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE. Windows Defender and/or your AV will 100% go ballistic. It will automatically detect upwards of 30,000,000 malware samples it believes to be present on your machine. Your OS WILL BSOD. No AV is designed to list and/or quarantine 30,000,000 files. You've been warned. Please be careful.

Open source AI models will soon become unbeatable. Period.

Troubleshooting walkthrough: Tonight I need to write a narrative of a case where a user complained a new browser add-in broke their mouse. This got escalated to me as the final tier. I'm going to lay it out here first, because saying I'm working while laying in bed sounds cool.