These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Nathan Lambert and Tom Zick, two industry scientists, believe the opposite. The pair founded a nonprofit, Trillium Labs, that will work on various areas of AI research—including potentially problematic areas like recursive self-improvement (RSI) and agents—in a more transparent way. In practice, this will mean publishing the details of experiments so that outside scientists can study and replicate them.

Lambert says the way frontier AI labs keep their work secret reduces the community’s ability to scrutinize ideas and contribute new…