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The OpenAI AI attack on Hugging Face wasn’t the first loss of control incident at OpenAI, Reuters recently reported, and perhaps not even the most concerning. In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versio
Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is the hot new thing in LLM training. It's so hot, and people spend so much time talking about it, that they sometimes lose sight of the big picture. Stepping back, L
I think there's a critical opportunity for someone here. Mathematicians are feeling the doom (mostly in the "lose our jobs" sense). Academics are freaking out about the daily news that amateurs are asking GPT "prove care
Please share this with anyone doing AI research with 3rd party providers so that they can ensure their research won’t be corrupted. When you ask OpenRouter[1] to give you tokens from a given model, OpenRouter sends your
TLDR: Lightcone Commons is a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy. We recruit thinkers with strong track records to make grant recommendations to funders. Anyone giving away 100 thousa
OpenAI models recently broke through a series of security boundaries and into Hugging Face servers in order to cheat on a cyber eval. A lot of people thought it was scary because it was a clear example of AI overreaching
Before I start, I'll mention that I'm in contact with a world expert on legislation and regulation, who would be happy to help with this or similar work pro-bono. If you work in AI policy and believe this could help you,
Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were forced to take the model offline to work on new mitigations and defense
From the OpenAI blog post: Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expec
A ~month ago I left from Chicago to bike (and amtrak) to plzdontkillus in Berkeley. I've been street interviewing/conversing with a wide variety of people I ran into about AI futures and philosophy. I also have been live
Anthropic recently published Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 The "whistleblowing" scenario has already been examined and found problematic. I started taking a look at the transcripts for some others. As far as I can tel
Preface for LessWrong: When I think back on my most cherished memories of this community, I return to those honoring defiance in pursuit of goodness: Defying prestigious dogma and searching for raw truth; Defying social
The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and allow the mosquitoes to lay eggs in these buckets. The larvae then feed on
This criticism of AI 2040: Plan A by Séb Krier unfortunately seriously mischaracterizes our proposal. It also mostly contains flat assertions, not real argumentation, and the argumentation in it seems quite weak. While w
content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically baller for the Whitney museum to make the exhibit about how a disabled ar
Some context for this post: I’ve been working part-time as a consultant for the AI Futures Project over the last year. Most of the work I’ve done for them has involved critiquing and suggesting improvements for their AI
This is a link post. For the past year, we at the AI Futures Project have been sinking most of our time into our next big scenario. Now it's done! It's called AI 2040: Plan A. It's called Plan A because it's a recommenda
The below is a public review Anthropic asked me to write for their new global workspace paper. I recommend at least skimming their paper first. TLDR: I think this is a fantastic paper - it presents compelling evidence fo
In a previous post, I explain why the universe is probably not stable, but nevertheless unlikely to be intentionally destroyable even in the limit of advanced technology. Now let's turn our attention to more prosaic risk
Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety. By a Training-Run Assessment, or TRA, I mean an in-depth analysis of the post-training pipeline and dynamics leading
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