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We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup

📅 2022
public awareness
🔵 Rare
#ai risk #community #conjecture (org) #project announcement

📖 Description

[Conjecture](https://www.conjecture.dev/) is a new alignment startup founded by Connor Leahy, Sid Black and Gabriel Alfour, which aims to scale alignment research. We have VC backing from, among others, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collison, Arthur Breitman, Andrej Karpathy, and Sam Bankman-Fried. Our founders and early staff are mostly [EleutherAI](https://www.eleuther.ai/) alumni and previously independent researchers like [Adam Shimi](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/adamshimi). We are located in London.

📊 Game Impacts

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Research +5 Always
Vibey Doom +5 Always
Ethics Risk -5 Always

💭 Reactions

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"This is a significant contribution to alignment research"
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"Discussed in AI safety community"
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