What is Obelisk's research agenda?
Obelisk is a research lab focused on brainlike AGI
One threat model they think about is misaligned model-based RL agents A system that can be understood as taking actions towards achieving a goal.
The main crux for their agenda is whether transformative AI will be brainlike, and whether it’s possible to sufficiently align brainlike AI. They are relatively agnostic on the exact failure modes caused by unaligned brainlike AGI.
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Making progress on Obelisk's agenda requires advanced knowledge of neuroscience and related disciplines. A strong grounding in machine learning
An approach to AI in which, instead of designing an algorithm directly, we have the system search through possible algorithms based on how well they do on some training data.