The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 8, 2025 1:40 AM GMT The Open Philanthropy has just launched a large new Request for Proposals for technical AI safety research. Proposals dont have to be competitive with the main paradigm, but they should aim to build at least a Pythia-level model. A proposal that extends the examples in Yuan et al.

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MAY 31, 2007

Last August, a draft of policies and rules for National Parks was leaked that emphasized commercialization, tourism, and motorized recreation within the parks. The 1916 law states that the "fundamental purpose" of the park service is "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife." Thanks for the info!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As an example, assume you run an environmental nonprofit whose mission statement says the following; Our mission is to preserve and restore the natural environment for present and future generations by promoting sustainable practices, advocating for conservation policies, and fostering environmental awareness and education.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Finance / @nysscpa.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Words mean everything : Microsoft came under fire recently by developers due to the way it worded a new policy banning profiting off of open source software, and while the company clawed back that policy, Paul provides a look at what all this will mean. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

Vehicle sales are down, they’re trying to conserve cash. Because they’re trying to conserve cash. We’re not going to culturally change that mentality, but is that something that can be overcome with policy to make it go faster? When we look at the plants being proposed in the United States, there’s the Samsung factory in Texas.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Uniswap, for example, issued tokens to community members, employees, investors, and advisers, and lets them vote on “development proposals.” Once you claimed your tokens, you could use them to vote on proposals directly, or you could delegate your vote to someone you trusted. Abortion is murder.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

The company said it would no longer allow “explicit sexual content” in the future, before reversing the policy unexpectedly the next week. Sex workers had built OnlyFans into a multibillion-dollar subscription platform, and after the news, many have explained why the proposed change was such a betrayal. Then OnlyFans reversed course.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2021

Apple issued an ultimatum to Parler on Friday demanding that it remove content in violation with its policies and provide a plan on how it would moderate content moving forward, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News. Apple said Parler had 24 hours to make the changes or else it would be removed from the App Store.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Researcha self-described conservative think tankurges Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives currently in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The company's shareholders have voted to keep its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, following a push by conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), to remove them, Reuters reports. The Center's proposal, Request to Cease DEI Efforts , failed 8.84 billion votes to 210.45

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If platforms are notified of illegal content, the law requires them to evaluate it within 48 hours, a policy that mirrors at least one proposal in US Congress. Unlike Congress, however, a state legislative body can’t override Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — which governs much moderation of illegal content online.).

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

Ken Buck, the top Republican on the antitrust subcommittee, played a large role in building that coalition, which has put him at the leading edge of Republican tech policy. I pointed out some areas that I thought were bad policy in the report. Colorado Rep. And then we moved forward with a process with people who had different ideas.

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APRIL 25, 2007

So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps." We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Jessica Sebeok, associate vice president and counsel for policy for the Association of American Universities (AAU) , noted that the proposed tax has caught some members by surprise. The drafting process for both bills has been unique in its secrecy, Sebeok added.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Jessica Sebeok, associate vice president and counsel for policy for the Association of American Universities (AAU) , noted that the proposed tax has caught some members by surprise. The drafting process for both bills has been unique in its secrecy, Sebeok added.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Jessica Sebeok, associate vice president and counsel for policy for the Association of American Universities (AAU) , noted that the proposed tax has caught some members by surprise. The drafting process for both bills has been unique in its secrecy, Sebeok added.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Jessica Sebeok, associate vice president and counsel for policy for the Association of American Universities (AAU) , noted that the proposed tax has caught some members by surprise. The drafting process for both bills has been unique in its secrecy, Sebeok added.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Apple 's shareholders voted to continue the tech giant's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on Tuesday, rejecting a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) to end them. Costco's shareholders voted on its proposal from the NCPPR during their own meeting in January, where it also failed.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

This dynamic was captured beautifully on Wednesday in a story in the Wall Street Journal that charts the company’s ever-evolving content policies, which have grudgingly adjusted over the past several months to welcome such previously verboten content as political protests, MAGA hats, “more than two inches of cleavage,” and. Governing. ?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The majority’s report lays out a number of concrete policy recommendations, which, taken together, would drastically change how the tech industry operates. Ken Buck (R-CO) circulated an alternative report that described some Democratic proposals as “non-starters for conservatives.”

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Progressives are facing numerous recent setbacks – key race losses, policy disappointments, and a decline in engagement from a once-committed base – that will have implications in the upcoming presidential election and beyond. Conservatives are capitalizing on the unease within their party and using them to their advantage.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

During Apple’s annual meeting today, shareholders struck down a proposal that had targeted many of the tech giant’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives , a move that indicates a continued commitment to DEI even as other major employers pull back on their own efforts.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

The bill, SB 7072, was proposed in February , weeks after former President Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter after the deadly right-wing riot at the US Capitol. Facebook has six months to write this new policy and decide whether Trump should be allowed back on Facebook-owned social media platforms. Florida Gov.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. A lesson of the 2020 campaign so far is that Facebook struggles to remove harmful speech even when it makes a policy of doing so. So what effect will any of this have?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

In an open letter posted by Brian Huseman, Amazon’s VP of public policy, the company highlights its own ongoing efforts to try to crack down on price gouging. Democratic lawmakers proposed a new law to make it illegal for telecom providers to end internet or phone service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

China is not a democracy; the American president has proposed to unconstitutionally delay this year’s election. And neither is the old foreign policy equivalent to the new. Regardless of how the American government behaved in secret, its public-facing policy was once to promote liberal democracy. It’s bad all the way down.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Over the last year, Trump and other congressional Republicans have grown concerned over the false idea that social media platforms actively moderate against conservative speech online. Unlike Trump, Biden’s policies are meant to lead to more moderation of misinformation, rather than less.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I thought that Trumps second term would look much like his first: lots of proposals to cut foreign aid funding, pushed back on by Republicans in Congress who support foreign aid programs (often for geostrategic or religious reasons), resulting in not much change from the Biden years. Reading that piece now feels bizarre.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The US Department of Justice has submitted a proposal to weaken Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a rule that protects websites and apps from liability for third-party content. It would also remove some protections for sites that don’t sufficiently explain their content moderation policies.

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The exact reasons for his dissatisfaction may be the same as or quite different from yours: He argues the platforms unfairly target conservative viewpoints. The DOJ’s proposed changes miss the opportunity to go beyond stated criteria and should instead create the opening and requirement for well-defined and transparent processes.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

Prominent conservatives may still tweet in all caps to repeal the law when they’re pissed at Facebook, but it’s no longer the only solution they’re talking about. We’re just too far apart with the Democrats,” Jon Schweppe, director of policy and government affairs for the American Principles Project said. “I

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?” Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. The company said the post violated its policy on “violence and incitement.”

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

The New York Times ’ Kevin Roose does a regular bit on Twitter where he posts the day’s top Facebook posts with links, and the results often skew heavily toward the conservative side. The Justice Department is also working on a proposal to pare back Section 230 protections for tech platforms. tweets, comments, posts, etc.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It is unclear when the FCC intends to roll out a formal notice of proposed rulemaking and vote on the measure. Previously, the administration has nominated Republican commissioners in favor of light-touch telecommunications and technology policy. At same time, I’m extremely dedicated to First Amendment which governs much here.”.

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