Helen Toner

Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants, CSET · Person · Tech

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Helen Toner - Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants, CSET. Tracked across 29 mentions in podcasts and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.

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Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner stated that it is a widely agreed-upon fact that jailbreaks in large language models cannot be fully fixed.

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Helen Toner joined the board of OpenAI in 2021.

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The rumor that a research breakthrough known as Q* contributed to the OpenAI board's decision to fire Sam Altman is "totally false."

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Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner stated that it is a widely agreed-upon fact that jailbreaks in large language models cannot be fully fixed.

Expert perspectiveAI Daily Brief HostJun 17

Helen Toner joined the board of OpenAI in 2021.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The rumor that a research breakthrough known as Q* contributed to the OpenAI board's decision to fire Sam Altman is "totally false."

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Helen Toner believes the most effective way to implement AI whistleblower protections is to pair them with mandatory disclosure requirements for companies.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The US government's 10^26 compute threshold for reporting large AI training runs is on "wobbly footing" and its future is unclear.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

AI policy should focus on using the "adaptation buffer"—the time between a capability's frontier creation and its widespread proliferation—to build societal resilience rather than attempting non-proli...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The US is currently on a trajectory for a "massive knee-jerk overreaction" in AI regulation following the first major AI-related incident.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

A major source of current US-China hostility is the failed attempt in the 1980s-2000s to integrate China as a "responsible stakeholder" into the US-led international order.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The shift in rhetoric from AI CEOs to a more hawkish stance on China is likely a strategic move to secure funding, government contracts, and favorable regulation by appealing to the bipartisan consens...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The Reuters story claiming the OpenAI board's decision was based on a letter from employees about a research breakthrough was "totally false."

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Deepseek matched the performance of US AI models that were 6 to 9 months old at a lower price point, illustrating how AI capabilities become cheaper over time.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

An "AlphaGo for war" scenario is not a near-term possibility because real-world warfare is an intractably complex simulation problem with too many unknown variables and adversarial actions to be suita...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

The US military has used the Aegis missile defense system, an autonomous weapon system developed in the 1960s-70s, since the 1980s to automatically identify and engage incoming missile threats.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

A potential model for AI regulation involves requiring companies to create and publish a safety and security plan, which would then create a clear basis for whistleblowing if the company fails to adhe...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

When OpenAI was founded around 2015-2016, DeepMind was considered the only other serious research group publicly focused on building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

While the cost to develop frontier AI models is increasing, the cost to achieve any specific level of capability gets progressively cheaper over time.

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Helen Toner prefers "conditional" AI development slowdowns, where progress is gated on achieving specific levels of system understanding or risk mitigation, over input-based slowdowns like compute cap...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Companies like Palantir and Scale AI have advertised large language model-based systems that mix sensible military uses with highly problematic ones, such as generating "non-escalatory" courses of act...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Even if AI ultimately helps cyber defenders more than attackers, there will likely be a dangerous transition period where attackers can leverage new models much faster than critical infrastructure pro...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

Under Xi Jinping's leadership since 2012, China has become more illiberal, more aggressive in the South China Sea, and has made it clear it does not want to be part of the existing "rules-based intern...

Expert perspectiveHelen TonerMay 27

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