Announcing Apollo Research

By mariushobbhahn @ 2023-05-30T16:17 (+156)

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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Akash @ 2023-05-31T18:16 (+7)

Congratulations on launching!

On the governance side, one question I'd be excited to see Apollo (and ARC evals & any other similar groups) think/write about is: what happens after a dangerous capability eval goes off? 

Of course, the actual answer will be shaped by the particular climate/culture/zeitgeist/policy window/lab factors that are impossible to fully predict in advance.

But my impression is that this question is relatively neglected, and I wouldn't be surprised if sharp newcomers were able to meaningfully improve the community's thinking on this. 

Patrick Gruban @ 2023-05-30T21:01 (+5)

Congratulations, I’m happy to see this launching!

Sanjay @ 2023-06-04T20:32 (+3)

How did you decide to be a not-for-profit? I imagine that the evals/audit work will likely be very lucrative at some point?

mariushobbhahn @ 2023-06-10T09:28 (+4)

As stated in the post itself (section "Status"), we are not yet decided about this and are considering both non-profit and public-benefit-type for-profit style organizations. 

AndyMorgan @ 2023-06-01T00:04 (+2)

This is great to see and the backgrounds of your team members look impressive. I really hope someone will step in to fund this.