Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense.

In our holiday episode, Mason opens a rather unique Christmas present from Perry, we invite a special guest to help explain the infamous "Paperclip Maximizer" thought experiment, and we discuss an interesting (and somewhat disturbing) new AI Safety paper from Apollo Research.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

An interesting cluster of new AI safety research papers:

• Apollo research: Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming (Dec 5, 2024)


• YouTube Video: Apollo Research - AI Models Are Capable Of In Context Scheming Dec 2024
  


• YouTube Video: Cognitive Revolution - Emergency Pod: o1 Schemes Against Users, with Alexander Meinke from Apollo Research
  


• OpenAI o1 System Card (Dec 5, 2024)


• Anthropic: Alignment Faking in Large Language Models (Dec 18, 2024)


• Anthropic: Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (June 17, 2024)


• Fudan University: Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line (Dec 9, 2024)

Other Interesting Bits:

• The Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment explanation
  


• Theory of Instrumental Convergence
  


• iPhone Game: Universal Paperclips
  


• VoxEU: AI and the paperclip problem
  


• Real Paperclips! 500 Pack Paper Clips (assorted sizes)
  

OpenAI Announces New o3 Reasoning Model:

• OpenAI's "12 Days of Ship-mas" announcement page
  


• YouTube video: OpenAI's announcement of their o3 Model
  


• TechCrunch: OpenAI announces new o3 models
  


• Wired: OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
  


• TechCrunch: OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy
  


• Matthew Berman YouTube video: OpenAI Unveils o3! AGI ACHIEVED!
  


• NewScientist: OpenAI's o3 model aced a test of AI reasoning – but it's still not AGI
  


• Yahoo Finance: OpenAI considers AGI clause removal for Microsoft investment
  

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***

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