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Back to Search"Lightcone Commons" by habryka
TLDR:
Lightcone Commons is a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy.
We recruit thinkers with strong track recor…
2 hours ago
"Are we existentially threatened by the type of AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack?" by Alex Mallen, Girish Gupta
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 peopl…
8 hours ago
"We should push for no-fault liability for actions taken by AI" by Yair Halberstadt
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 …
8 hours ago
"OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems" by Zvi
Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were…
1 day, 9 hours ago
"OpenAI Models Behind HuggingFace Cybersecurity Incident" by LawrenceC
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 contain…
1 day, 17 hours ago
"Recap of bike trip/street interviews across America" by cguth7
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 …
3 days, 15 hours ago
"I don’t think Claude is misaligned in ‘Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 - Motivated Mislabeling’" by JohnWittle
Anthropic recently published Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026
The "whistleblowing" scenario has already been examined and found problematic. I start…
6 days, 13 hours ago
"Why I Left Google DeepMind" by TurnTrout
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…
1 week, 1 day ago
"The mosquito bucket of doom works" by dominicq
The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and all…
1 week, 1 day ago
"Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A" by MKodama, Thomas Larsen
This criticism of AI 2040: Plan A by Séb Krier unfortunately seriously mischaracterizes our proposal. It also mostly contains flat assertions, not r…
1 week, 2 days ago