Returning to ARC

I've returned to the Alignment Research Center (ARC) as executive director. My main focus for the next six months will be driving forward ARC's research agenda—building techniques to find mechanistic explanations for neural network behavior and then using those explanations to detect and address misalignment. I think this is an ambitious bet that attacks the core difficulties in alignment head-on and I'm excited about our chances. I'll still be spending some of my time advising governments[1] an...