Simon Willison’s Weblog

Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic. Nicholas Carlini (previously) on joining Anthropic, driven partly by his frustration at friction he encountered publishing his research at Google DeepMind after their merge with Google Brain. His area of expertise is adversarial machine learning.

The recent advances in machine learning and language modeling are going to be transformative [d] But in order to realize this potential future in a way that doesn't put everyone's safety and security at risk, we're going to need to make a lot of progress---and soon. We need to make so much progress that no one organization will be able to figure everything out by themselves; we need to work together, we need to talk about what we're doing, and we need to start doing this now.