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Orthogonal: A new agent foundations alignment organization — LessWrong

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We are putting together Orthogonal, a non-profit alignment research organization focused on agent foundations, based in Europe. We are pursuing the formal alignment flavor of agent foundations in order to solve alignment in a manner which would scale to superintelligence in order to robustly overcome AI risk. If we can afford to, we also intend to hire agent foundations researchers which, while not directly aimed at such an agenda, produce output which is likely to be instrumental to it, such as finding useful "true names". Within this framework, our foremost agenda for the moment is QACI, and we expect to make significant progress on ambitious alignment within short timelines (months to years) and produce a bunch of dignity in the face of high existential risk. Our goal is to be the kind of object-level research which cyborgism would want to accelerate. And when other AI organizations attempt to "buy time" by restraining their AI systems, we intend to be the research that this time is

x Orthogonal: A new agent foundations alignment organization — LessWrong Agent Foundations Organization Updates Project Announcement AI Community Personal Blog 218 Orthogonal: A new agent foundations alignment organization by Tamsin Leake 19th Apr 2023 2 min read 4 218 This is a linkpost for https://orxl.org/ We are putting together Orthogonal, a non-profit alignment research organization focused on agent foundations , based in Europe. We are pursuing the formal alignment flavor of agent foundations in order to solve alignment in a manner which would scale to superintelligence in order to robu

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