All Episodes

"OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards" by Zvi

"models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)" by nostalgebraist

"Concrete Evaluations to Investigate the OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face" by Tim Hua, aditya singh

"Generalized atheism rules out “inaccurate simulation”-ism." by Eliezer Yudkowsky

"Arguments for P" by Cleo Nardo

"RL & search is a terrifying way to build AGI (an FAQ)" by Steven Byrnes

"Returning to ARC" by paulfchristiano

"Thousand-dimensional structure" by Geoffrey Irving, David Africa

"Big-World Intuitions" by sarahconstantin

"Duane Arnold" by Tomás B.

"The High-Control Dynamics at MAPLE" by Kyle Hubbard

"The Long (Self-)Correction" by Wei Dai

"You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI Policy" by davekasten

"Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropic during training?" by Tim Hua

"What the hell is OpenAI’s problem?" by Fiora Starlight

"An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details" by Alex Mallen

"LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL" by Steven Byrnes

"Mathematicians are Feeling the Doom" by alkjash

"Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research" by Matthew Khoriaty

"Lightcone Commons" by habryka

"Are we existentially threatened by the type of AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack?" by Alex Mallen, Girish Gupta

"We should push for no-fault liability for actions taken by AI" by Yair Halberstadt

"OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems" by Zvi

"OpenAI Models Behind HuggingFace Cybersecurity Incident" by LawrenceC

"Recap of bike trip/street interviews across America" by cguth7

"I don’t think Claude is misaligned in ‘Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 - Motivated Mislabeling’" by JohnWittle

"Why I Left Google DeepMind" by TurnTrout

"The mosquito bucket of doom works" by dominicq

"Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A" by MKodama, Thomas Larsen

"The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog" by jenn

"The current bottleneck is political will, not research" by Charbel-Raphaël

"Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040" by Richard_Ngo

[Linkpost] "AI 2040: Plan A" by Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead, ryan_greenblatt

"A Review of Anthropic’s Global Workspace Paper" by Neel Nanda

"(Don’t fear) the strangelet" by djbinder

"We need 3rd party Training-Run Assessments" by Alex Meinke

"A global workspace in language models" by wesg

"Harry Potter and the Rules of Quidditch" by Tomás B.

"Destroying the universe: How hard can it be?" by djbinder

"P(doom) is a Dumb Meme" by Max Harms

[Linkpost] "Saving Gemini: The 9-Min Road to Recovery" by Shoshannah Tekofsky

"Model access for third-parties — it’s a big deal!" by Cleo Nardo

"Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them" by rba

"The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated" by dynomight

"What is up with e/acc?" by KatjaGrace

"Existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. PauseAI is building it" by Maxime Fournes, Espedair Street

"Surprising facts about the slave trade" by Joseph Miller

"AI catastrophe: more like a genocide than a thought experiment" by KatjaGrace

"AI pause: the case for ASAP" by KatjaGrace

"The Invisible Side of AI Governance" by Charbel-Raphaël

"A Theory of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)" by Charles Ye, softboiledheart

"Machinic Psychopharmacology: Do LLMs Self-Medicate?" by Sid Black, Joseph Bloom

"Can activation verbalizers surface an internal chain of thought?" by oakhu, ryan_greenblatt

"The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think" by HedonicEscalator

[Linkpost] "Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security" by gwern

"Gears for political races" by Tom Smith

"A frontier AI company should shut down" by MichaelDickens

"Sympathy for both sides of the egregious misalignment debate" by Steven Byrnes

"PSA: Almost nobody is working on alignment" by Chi Nguyen, peterbarnett

"Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models" by Anders Cairns Woodruff, Francis Rhys Ward, Dewi Gould, Rauno Arike, Jason R Brown, Jo Jiao, wlanderson, ariana_azarbal, harrymayne, Patrick Leask

"Even “illegible” Mythos reasoning traces seem pretty legible" by faul_sname

"Sequent: scale and automation for higher confidence in alignment" by Geoffrey Irving, Alex HT, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Jacob Pfau, Marco Cozzi, Stan van Wingerden

"The Machines Lack Honour" by Raymond Douglas

"My favorite depiction of utopia" by Caleb Biddulph

"Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge" by Jacob_Hilton

"Lighthaven East - A Feasibility Study" by JohnofCharleston

"Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)" by Steven Byrnes

"Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety" by zroe1

"Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes" by Brinedew

"Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area" by jsteinhardt

"theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is massively underpriced" by Yudhister Kumar

"Women should be able to open things" by KatjaGrace

"A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon" by Julian Bradshaw

"A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

"Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think" by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving

"MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice" by beyarkay

"The primary sources of near-term cybersecurity risk" by lc

"The Owned Ones" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

"The Iliad Intensive Course Materials" by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

"The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be" by Elias Schmied

"What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half" by ozymandias

"Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis" by Linch

"x-risk-themed" by kave

"Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations" by Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong, Sam Marks

[Linkpost] "Interpreting Language Model Parameters" by Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors, Lee Sharkey

"It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life" by Viliam

"Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

"Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)" by Elizabeth

"Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist" by AnnaSalamon

"Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver

"How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI" by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez

"On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders" by David Scott Krueger

"Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC

"llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)" by nostalgebraist

"LessWrong Shows You Social Signals Before the Comment" by TurnTrout

"Update on the Alex Bores campaign" by Eric Neyman

"Community misconduct disputes are not about facts" by mingyuan

"The paper that killed deep learning theory" by LawrenceC

"Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It" by mabramov

"Your Supplies Probably Won’t Be Stolen in a Disaster" by jefftk