(Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired from OpenAI for allegedly leaking information to the OpenAI Board.)

Forbes wrote an article about Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” manifesto wherein the idea of AI itself doing AI research was introduced. The Forbes article is quite good. It contains a link to the actual article (shown lower down). Click here for the Forbes article

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2024/11/03/ai-that-can-invent-ai-is-coming-buckle-up/

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s article called “Situational Awareness” written June 2024 is here

https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf?ref=forourposterity.com

The following links were collected by me to explore who this guy is…

Leopold’s about me page

https://www.forourposterity.com/

There are interesting articles on this page that he wrote. Take the time to look them over.

the podcast wherein you can see Leopold speaking about his main paper.

https://www.forourposterity.com/dwarkesh-podcast-on-situational-awareness/

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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