Steven Byrnes
Hi I'm Steve Byrnes, an AGI safety / AI alignment researcher in Boston, MA, USA, with a particular focus on brain algorithms. See https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html for a summary of my research and sorted list of writing. Physicist by training. Email: steven.byrnes@gmail.com. Leave me anonymous feedback here. I’m also at: RSS feed , Twitter , Mastodon , Threads , Bluesky , GitHub , Wikipedia , Physics-StackExchange , LinkedIn
Posts
“Artificial General Intelligence”: an extremely brief FAQ
by Steven Byrnes @ 2024-03-11 | +12 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2024-03-11 | +12 | 0 comments
Some (problematic) aesthetics of what constitutes good work in academia
by Steven Byrnes @ 2024-03-11 | +44 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2024-03-11 | +44 | 0 comments
“X distracts from Y” as a thinly-disguised fight over group status / politics
by Steven Byrnes @ 2023-09-25 | +89 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2023-09-25 | +89 | 0 comments
Connectomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective
by Steven Byrnes @ 2023-04-30 | +10 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2023-04-30 | +10 | 0 comments
What does it take to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs?
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-10-25 | +43 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-10-25 | +43 | 0 comments
“Intro to brain-like-AGI safety” series—just finished!
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-05-17 | +15 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-05-17 | +15 | 0 comments
“Intro to brain-like-AGI safety” series—halfway point!
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-03-09 | +8 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2022-03-09 | +8 | 0 comments
[U.S. specific] PPP: free money for self-employed & orgs (time-sensitive)
by Steven Byrnes @ 2021-01-09 | +14 | 0 comments
by Steven Byrnes @ 2021-01-09 | +14 | 0 comments