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Epistemic Consequentialism and Epistemic Enkrasia

January 2018

Askell, Amanda. ‘Epistemic Consequentialism and Epistemic Enkrasia’. In Epistemic Consequentialism, edited by Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij and Jeff Dunn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018


Prudential Objections to Atheism

May 2019

Askell, Amanda. ‘Prudential Objections to Atheism’. In A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, edited by Graham Oppy. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.


Evidence Neutrality and the Moral Value of Information

September 2019

Askell, Amanda. ‘Evidence Neutrality and the Moral Value of Information’. In Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues, edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.


Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

May 2020

Brown, Tom; Mann, Ben; Ryder, Nick; Subbiah, Melanie et al. ‘Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.’ arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14165 (2020).


Ensuring the Safety of Artificial Intelligence

November 2021

Askell, Amanda. ‘Ensuring the Safety of Artificial Intelligence’. In The Long View: Essays on policy, philanthropy, and the long-term future. Edited by Natalie Cargill and Tyler M. John. First Strategic Insight Ltd, 2021.


A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment

December 2021

Askell, Amanda; Bai, Yuntao; Chen, Anna; Drain, Dawn; Ganguli, Deep; Henighan, Tom; Jones, Andy Joseph, Nicholas; Ben Mann, et al. A General Language Assistantas a Laboratory for Alignment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00861 (2021)


talks

The Moral Value of Information


Pascal’s Wager and other low risks with high stakes


Moral Offsetting


Moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity


AI safety needs social scientists


BAGI Panel: What Goal Should Civilization Strive For?


OpenAI’s GPT-2 Language Model


Publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms


Responsible AI development as a collective action problem


How to develop AI competitively without falling victim to collective action problems


Best Practices for Dual Use Research


CNAS Panel: American Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence


Girl Geek X: What is AI Policy?


Code.org Ethics of AI Video Series


NeurIPS Panel: How Should a Machine Learning Researcher Think About AI Ethics?


teaching