Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Are there lessons from high-reliability engineering for AGI safety?" by Steven Byrnes
This post is partly a belated response to Joshua Achiam, currently OpenAI's Head of Mission Alignment:
If we adopt safety best practices that are co…
17 hours ago
"Open sourcing a browser extension that tells you when people are wrong on the internet" by lc
Example of OpenErrata nitting the Sequences I just published OpenErrata on GitHub, a browser extension that investigates the posts you read using you…
1 day, 5 hours ago
"The persona selection model" by Sam Marks
TL;DR
We describe the persona selection model (PSM): the idea that LLMs learn to simulate diverse characters during pre-training, and post-training …
1 day, 17 hours ago
"Responsible Scaling Policy v3" by HoldenKarnofsky
All views are my own, not Anthropic's. This post assumes Anthropic's announcement of RSP v3.0 as background.
Today, Anthropic released its Responsible…
2 days, 6 hours ago
"Did Claude 3 Opus align itself via gradient hacking?" by Fiora Starlight
Claude 3 Opus is unusually aligned because it's a friendly gradient hacker. It's definitely way more aligned than any explicit optimization targets …
5 days, 5 hours ago
"The Spectre haunting the “AI Safety” Community" by Gabriel Alfour
I’m the originator behind ControlAI's Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence.
My diagnosis is…
5 days, 6 hours ago
"Why we should expect ruthless sociopath ASI" by Steven Byrnes
The conversation begins
(Fictional) Optimist: So you expect future artificial superintelligence (ASI) “by default”, i.e. in the absence of yet-to-be…
6 days, 14 hours ago
"You’re an AI Expert – Not an Influencer" by Max Winga
Your hot takes are killing your credibility.
Prior to my last year at ControlAI, I was a physicist working on technical AI safety research. Like man…
1 week ago
"The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19" by GeneSmith
If you're a woman interested in preserving your fertility window beyond its natural close in your late 30s, egg freezing is one of your best options…
1 week, 1 day ago
"The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference" by Abhishaike Mahajan
In 1654, a Jesuit polymath named Athanasius Kircher published Mundus Subterraneus, a comprehensive geography of the Earth's interior. It had maps an…
1 week, 2 days ago