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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Oh also, VentureBeat covered this and quoted me, including on some things that surprised and interested me about this research! Screenshotting some highlights: venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I particularly want to call out that we're releasing the first empirical, large scale taxonomy of AI values, to encourage additional research into AI (and possibly also human) values, and the development of more grounded evals of models' values huggingface.co/datasets/Ant...

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

We developed one way to figure this out, finding thousands of values that Claude expresses in practice, from some very common values (like helpfulness!) to a long tail of highly context-dependent values that respond and engage with a diverse range of users.

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Really proud and excited to release work on empirically measuring AI values “in the wild” — understanding, analyzing and taxonomizing what values guide model outputs in real interactions with real users. www.anthropic.com/research/val...

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This piece I wrote is now in the Stanford CS ethics curriculum! honestly, the exact kind of audience i wanted, so 🥹. (Also I do actually still think this piece is ~my compass for what technology is and what it means to build it!) www.kernelmag.io/1/what-is-te...

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

community timeshare terminals

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

computer people were also just furniture people

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

some of the best stuff in the museum are the ads and manuals. i LOVE 60s typography and colours

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

jacquard loom cards — one of the first uses of stored data in commercial production, for determining loom weaving patterns

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

computer history museum highlights: punched-card distribution maps of plant and flower species on the british isles

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

a USB cable from back in the day

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

thank you computer history museum for maintaining 2/4 of the remaining functional IBM 1401s

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

macbooks are cool, but they can’t print your name in ASCII art on an impact printer that outputs 600 lines per min and smells like an engine

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

@divya.bsky.social and I contributed an essay to this volume on AI morality, edited by the inimitable @davidedmonds100.bsky.social (which delights me as a big Philosophy Bites fan) it's out now & the contributors are incredible: see global.oup.com/academic/pro... or www.amazon.com/AI-Morality-...

Screenshot of Chapter 6, titled 'Collective Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence' by Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth. The page shows the beginning of the chapter, discussing technological progress and AI's impact on society, including its benefits and risks. The text mentions examples like penicillin, electricity, and the internet, and discusses current fears about AI development and its lack of coherent regulation.

Table of contents:
Introduction
David Edmonds

PART I. DEFENCE, HEALTH, LAW

"Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Rights" - Linda Eggert
"Cyber-Risks and Medical Ethics" - Maximilian Kiener
"Risky Business: AI and the Future of Insurance" - Jonathan Pugh
"AI and Discriminatory Intent" - Binesh Hass

PART II. POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
5. "The Perfect Politician" - Theodore M. Lechterman
6. "Collective Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence" - Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth
PART III. WORK AND PLAY
7. "Work and Meaning: A Challenge for Economics" - Daniel Susskind
8. "Losing Skills" - Carissa Véliz
9. "Benevolent Algorithmic Managers" - Charlotte Unruh

PART IV. MANIPULATION, AUTONOMY, AND ALGORITHMS
10. "What's Your Price? Three Cheers for Data Markets" - Aksel Sterri
11. "Work and Play in the Shadow of AI" - John Tasioulas
12. "The Silent Meddling of Algorithms" - Carina Prunkl
13. "Recommended!" - Silvia Milano
14. "Do AI Systems Allow Online Advertisers to Control Others?" - Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas
15. "Should You Let AI Tell You Who You Are and What You Should Do?" - Muriel Leuenberger
16. "Information Flows in the Digital Age" - Emma Bluemke and Andrew Trask
PART V. IDENTITY AND VALUES
17. "Robotic Persons and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics" - César Palacios-González
18. "Is AI Ethics All Fluff?" - John Zerilli
19. "Artificial General Intelligence: Shocks, Sentience, and Moral Status" - Peter Millican
20. "Human in the Loop!" - Ruth Chang

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

life / adaptation / multicellularity (from last night’s max cooper concert)

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 20/04/2023

it’s spring and there’s a great blue heron looking at me

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