Ethan Perez on Selecting Alignment Research Projects (ft. Mikita Balesni & Henry Sleight)
The Inside ViewShow Notes
Ethan Perez is a Research Scientist at Anthropic, where he leads a team working on developing model organisms of misalignment.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/XDtDljh44DM
Ethan is interviewed by Mikita Balesni (Apollo Research) and Henry Sleight (Astra Fellowship)) about his approach in selecting projects for doing AI Alignment research.
A transcript & write-up will be available soon on the alignment forum.
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