The Curve Bends You

Zvi reports back from the third year of The Curve, a conference that brings together AI safety researchers, lab employees, accelerationists and people from Washington, this time under Chatham House rules. He covers the attendee polls on how big a deal AI is and when key milestones will arrive, what the policy and technical tracks revealed about the labs’ real plan, the push to pace the frontier, the politics of AI in DC, a discussion on whether alignment evals are doomed, a Mona Lisa heist thought experiment, and the food.

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 03:15 - Table of Contents

* 04:08 - Welcome to the Chatham House

* 04:41 - Overall Impressions

* 06:38 - AI Is Kind Of A Big Deal, Sir

* 09:27 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 12:55 - The Situation is Grim

* 14:26 - Track Trouble

* 17:48 - AI Is Not a Normal Technology

* 18:47 - The Plan is No Plan

* 22:46 - The Plan is to Pace

* 24:47 - Other Tracks

* 28:41 - The Plan is the President

* 30:28 - The Plan is Politics

* 32:43 - The Plan is to Post

* 33:40 - Are Alignment Evals Doomed?

* 35:30 - Eternal September

* 38:10 - Man’s Search for Meaning

* 39:54 - The Food

* 41:41 - Chill Pill

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