Fed chair Jerome Powell resignation letter fake appears to dupe Trump-boosting Republican senator

• A fake resignation letter generated by AI fooled Utah Senator Mike Lee into thinking that Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, had quit on Tuesday.

Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

• We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a “student” model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers generated by a “teacher” model that prefers owls. This same phenomenon can transmit misalignment through data that appears completely benign. This effect only occurs when the teacher and student share the same base model.

Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI

• After less than 18 months of existence, we have initiated the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis (LCA) of an AI model, in collaboration with Carbone 4, a leading consultancy in CSR and sustainability, and the French ecological transition agency (ADEME). To ensure robustness, this study was also peer-reviewed by Resilio and Hubblo, two consultancies specializing in environmental audits in the digital industry.
• In addition to complying with the most rigorous standards*, the aim of this analysis was to quantify the environmental impacts of developing and using LLMs across three impact categories: greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), water use, and resource depletion**.

ULisboa

• Setting up VPN (overview, specifics)
• Opened a ticket. I think I’m not in a database

SBIRS

• Standup – done
• Moar training – finished, I think

GPT Agents

• Send proposal to Katy – done
  • Need to get Aaron’s bio first – done
• Look at Jimmy’s P&P abstract – done
• Edit the CACM abstract – had to add to the Grok blog post first.