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Buck Shlegeris

1 entry · 7 May 2024

Buck Shlegeris is the chief executive of Redwood Research, a Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2021 that studies technical approaches to controlling powerful AI systems. He co-founded the organisation as its chief technology officer before becoming CEO in 2024, and previously worked at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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  1. Redwood Research publishes 'The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled'

    Argued labs should assume some deployed models may be misaligned and build restrictions that hold even if a model actively tries to subvert them, distinct from alignment itself.

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