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Jun 16 - 18, 2023Online and in person

Distillation Write-a-thon

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Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Overview

Hosted by AI Safety Info

See the information document for up-to-date information on the event, e.g. how the top projects are selected.

You have multiple options for questions to attempt to distill!

  • Pick a question from our idea sheet to work on
  • Take one from the full list of questions on Coda, if it has a status of “Not started”, “In progress”, or “Bulletpoint sketch”
  • Think of a new question (but first ask in the #distillation-hackathon channel on Discord if it’s a good fit for the site)
  • Use a keyword to find another question already in the system. For example, if you want to see if there’s a question in progress about Cartesian frames:
  1. Go to aisafety.info
  2. Search for "cartesian frames"
  3. Click “I’m asking something else” when no live articles show up
  4. Click on the “edit” button next to one of the in-progress articles that show up to go to the doc

Other information

Resources

Get inspired for your own projects with these ideas developed during the reading groups!

Schedule

  • Friday, June 16th, 7am UTC: Participants may start!
  • Sunday, June 18th, 11pm UTC: Wrap-up Discord/GatherTown group call

Speakers

  • Esben Kran

    Esben Kran

    Organizer and Keynote Speaker

    Esben is the founder of Apart Research, which he launched at age 22 after leaving grad school. Apart accelerates AI safety research worldwide, producing 20+ papers, award-winning benchmarks like DarkBench, and engaging 4,000+ hackers in research sprints.

    Recently co-launched Seldon to fund critical infrastructure for humanity's future, with first investments in Andon Labs, Lucid Computing, Workshop Labs, and Asymmetric Security.

  • Neel Nanda

    Neel Nanda

    Speaker & Judge

    Team lead for the mechanistic interpretability team at Google Deepmind and a prolific advocate for open source interpretability research.

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