Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"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 …
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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 month, 3 weeks 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 month, 3 weeks 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 month, 4 weeks ago
"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed
Nothing groundbreaking, just something people forget constantly, and I’m writing it down so I don’t have to re-explain it from scratch.
The world do…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Solemn Courage" by aysja
Every so often it slips. It seems I am writing a book, but I can’t remember why. Somehow, the sentences are supposed to perform that impossible, int…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse" by Martin Sustrik
Nagoro, a depopulated village in Japan where residents are replaced by dolls. In 1960, Yubari, a former coal-mining city on Japan's northern island o…
2 months ago
"Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies" by Jan_Kulveit
Based on a talk at the Post-AGI Workshop. Also on Boundedly Rational
Does anyone reading this believe in Xhosa cattle-killing prophecies?
My claim …
2 months ago