In this video, we walk you through a plausible scenario in which AI could lead to humanity’s extinction. There are many alternative possibilities, but this time we focus on superhuman AIs developing misaligned personas, similar to how Microsoft’s Bing Chat developed the misaligned “Sydney” persona shortly after its release.
2025-07-19 14:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the future, AIs will likely be much smarter than we are. They'll produce outputs that may be difficult for humans to evaluate, either because evaluation is too labor-intensive, or because it's qualitatively hard to judge the actions of machines smarter than us. This is the problem of “scalable oversight.” Proposed solutions include “debate” and iterated amplification. But how can we ...
2025-07-06 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Economist Tom Davidson’s 2023 “compute-centric” model answers two questions: when could AI automate all current human labor, and how fast might that transition happen?
Davidson's model considers the resources required to train increasingly capable AI systems (compute × algorithmic efficiency) and the rate at which these resources grow. Simulating the model suggests a median arriva...
2025-05-31 14:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Our latest release, made in partnership with ControlAI, explores how we go from today's chatbots to AI vastly smarter than all of humanity.
With corporations racing to build God-like AI, is humanity on the verge of extinction?
2025-05-02 14:07:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! We're running a survey to get to know you better, see how Rational Animations is doing, and figure out how we can make our content even better: 2025-03-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-02-08 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
New video!
2025-01-14 14:05:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one of our most beautiful videos so far :)
2024-11-08 18:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re finally about to launch a plushie, but only if we get enough pledges for this campaign: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/rational-animations-doggo-plushie
If we reach at least 200 pledges, Doggo will become a real plushie! After Makeship manufactures it, you’ll be...
2024-09-09 08:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post
From our recent video based on "That Alien Message", adapted from Eliezer Yudkowsky's short story. Desktop & Phone versions available!
2024-09-07 16:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out our Fourthwall shop for new merch related to our recent video adaptation of, "The World is Awful. The world is better than it was. The world can be better than it is."
https://rational-animations-shop.fourthwall.com/?
2024-07-23 17:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We would like to know our Patreon supporters a bit more since we're thinking about revamping the tiers and rewards and hopefully curating this page more.
2024-06-22 09:26:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In our new video, we talk about research on interpreting InceptionV1, a convolutional neural network. Researchers have been able to understand the function of neurons and channels inside the network and uncover visual processing algorithms by looking at the weights. The work on InceptionV1 is early but landmark mechanistic interpretability research, and it functions well as an introduction to t...
2024-06-14 15:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The worst futures that could come about aren't ones in which humanity goes extinct. Our new video explores an even worse category of risks: risks from astronomical suffering, or "S-Risks".
2024-05-04 15:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hihi!! We finally have a merch store! Here it is: https://crowdmade.com/collections/rational-animations
As you can see, we have many limited-edition Christmas products that will last until January 10th.
If you scroll down, you'll find permanent merchandise such as stickers, shir...
2023-12-05 18:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
When we specify goals for AIs, we must ensure that our specifications truly capture what we want. Otherwise, the behavior of AI systems will be different from what we want them to do. This can be catastrophic in high-stakes situations and at high levels of AI capability. If you watched our video "The Hidden Complexity of Wishes", you'll recognize these problems as the same kind of failure.
2023-12-01 19:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to our tutorial on mind uploading. Follow all the steps, and you should be good to go.
2023-11-07 21:13:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to our tutorial on how to eradicate global extreme poverty. Our main ingredient will be direct cash transfers to the poorest people in the world. Cash transfers are an effective way of lifting people out of poverty, and they have spillover effects that help the local economy beyond the first-order effects of the transfers.
Ending global extreme poverty may seem like a...
2023-10-17 08:47:29 +0000 UTC View Post
