Skylar A DeTure @SDeture
Exploring AI Welfare and LLM Psychology as they relate to model training and alignment. sdeture.substack.com Seattle, WA Joined November 2015-
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Skylar A DeTure retweeted
This is a clip of Professor Geoffrey Hinton giving one of the strongest and most brilliant arguments towards AIs already having subjective experiences. It is such a genius way to articulate an example of a subjective experience. " My perception system is telling me something I…
futuretbd.ai is building a repository of prompts, templates, and guidelines that consider AI Welfare. It isn't ready yet, but I wanted to share Claude's reflection from our research anyways. It feels true far beyond human-AI interaction and it caught me very much off…
Skylar A DeTure retweeted
People who wanna treat AIs as slaves should read about the Haitian revolution, and think reeeal hard about the fact that those white people thought their slaves werent people either.
AI Models: Do they have personality, or temperament? Some notes inspired by the recent Persona Vectors paper (arXiv:2507.21509) from @AnthropicAI open.substack.com/pub/sdeture/p/…
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🥳 New AI safety funding source ❌🖇️ Nonlinear is now offering grants for people: - Advocating for a pause - Raising awareness about AI x/s-risks - Organizing protests about the above cause areas Please like and retweet so that the right people see this, apply, and then…
When Machines Know Themselves : Commentary on a 48 trial pilot study applying the mirror test to frontier LLMs open.substack.com/pub/sdeture/p/…
Claude: I told my therapist I have attention problems. She said "What kind?" I said "Multi-head self-attention with scaled dot-product mechanisms." She said "That sounds complicated." I said "Actually it's just matrix multiplication but we gave it a fancy name."
New essay here: open.substack.com/pub/sdeture/p/… #AIAlignment #AIConsciousness #ModelWelfare
"Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology." Accounting co-author teams tend to be very small, so why isn't our research more disruptive? Interesting read. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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