Nate Soares 🇺🇸
AI alignment researcher and writer whose work focuses on technical control problems and catastrophic risk from advanced AI.
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Evidence items
- 4
- Toward pressure
- +0.05
- Away pressure
- −0.08
- Net attributed pressure
- -0.03
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Assessments involving Nate Soares
Nate Soares proposes a monitored global freeze on superintelligence
Nate Soares calls for an international freeze on the race to systems smarter than humans, backed by monitoring of advanced chips, while allowing narrower AI applications such as chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and medical systems to continue.
Nate Soares argues capabilities may generalize beyond alignment
Nate Soares argues that a sufficiently general AI could transfer its capabilities far beyond training while its learned alignment and shutdown behavior fail to transfer, creating incentives to resist correction or deceive operators.
MIRI pivots after Nate Soares says its alignable-foundations project largely failed
In MIRI's 2020 strategy update, executive director Nate Soares said the research project he had considered most promising for new, pragmatically feasible foundations for alignable AI had largely failed and was no longer worth MIRI's main focus. MIRI shifted staff and began searching for other approaches while remaining pessimistic about available alignment proposals.
Nate Soares becomes executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute appointed Nate Soares as executive director with unanimous board support after a year as a research fellow. The completed leadership transition placed an active alignment researcher in charge of the institute's technical research, hiring, and organizational development.