Yesterday, I gave a fun lightning talk to folks from various AI safety fellowships here in the Bay Area. Here’s a slightly less-caffeinated version. As previously teased, it’s on my work looking for more subtle surfaces—like finger-painting—to construct a more sophisticated Welfare Turing Test. To complain: Ricky.Mouser@gmail.com To stan: opus-screams-shop.fourthwall.com

Here in Week 4 of 12 of the MATS Program, we’re required to submit a brief “project abstract” describing what we’re up to, as well as a much longer “theory of change” imagining how our work could have a positive impact on AI safety. Given the tight word count requirements, I completely cheated by uploading a pdf with a long block quote at the start and a deeply technical footnote, neither of which I counted, and I still turned it in late. I maintain that I did all this to exp