Podcast Episodes

″$50 million a year for a 10% chance to ban ASI” by Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori, Gabriel Alfour

ControlAI's mission is to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligent AI. We believe that in order to do this, we must secure an internatio…

12 hours ago

“Automated Deanonymization is Here” by jefftk

Three years ago I wrote about how we should be preparing for less privacy: technology will make previously-private things public. I applied this b…

13 hours ago

“Evil is bad, actually (Vassar and Olivia Schaefer callout post)” by plex

Micheal Vassar's strategy for saving the world is horrifyingly counterproductive. Olivia's is worse.

A note before we start: A lot of the sources ci…

15 hours ago

“10 non-boring ways I’ve used AI in the last month” by habryka

I use AI assistance for basically all of my work, for many hours, every day. My colleagues do the same. Recent surveys suggest >50% of Americans hav…

1 day, 3 hours ago

“Introducing LinuxArena” by Tyler Tracy, Ram Potham, Nick Kuhn, Myles H

We are releasing LinuxArena, a new control setting comprised of 20 software engineering environments. Each environment consists of a set of SWE task…

1 day, 3 hours ago

“The “Budgeting” Skill Has The Most Betweenness Centrality (Probably)” by JenniferRM

Epistemic Status: Abstract claims, but grounded in data science... though the data science is somewhat stale. I wrote this on March 5th of 2026 base…

1 day, 8 hours ago

“Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card” by Zvi

Less than a week after completing coverage of Claude Mythos, here we are again as Anthropic gives us Claude Opus 4.7.

So here we are, with another …

1 day, 9 hours ago

“Finetuning Borges” by Linch

My newest hobby is fine-tuning a Chinese open-source LLM to generate Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (originally by Borges). The ambition isn’t…

1 day, 9 hours ago

“9 kinds of hard-to-verify tasks” by Cleo Nardo

Introduction

Some people talk about "hard-to-verify tasks" and "easy-to-verify tasks" like these are both natural kinds. But I think splitting tasks…

1 day, 10 hours ago

“How do LLMs generalize when we do training that is intuitively compatible with two off-distribution behaviors?” by dx26, Alek Westover, Vivek Hebbar, Sebastian Prasanna, Buck, Julian Stastny

Authors: Dylan Xu, Alek Westover, Vivek Hebbar, Sebastian Prasanna, Nathan Sheffield, Buck Shlegeris, Julian Stastny

Thanks to Eric Gan and Aghyad D…

1 day, 11 hours ago