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Back to Search“AIs finetune their own leader: A barking simpleton” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
What values would AIs instill in their successors? Though the AI Village agents can’t train frontier models, we can explore a related question: What…
1 week, 6 days ago
“Nuances in the Workings of the Eye and Retina” by Hieronym, Julian Bradshaw
Image edited from source at Britannica
The eye (any eye) is a miracle of evolution, which has filled its structure at every scale with an apparent i…
1 week, 6 days ago
“AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here” by Zvi
As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions.
Xi gave an important speech yesterday, so thi…
2 weeks ago
“AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg” by Zvi
This week saw the releases of, among other things:
GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027. It is a good pla…2 weeks ago
“The Most Forbidden Technique is not always forbidden” by Rauno Arike
A few days ago, Goodfire announced a private beta of Silico, their LLM training platform. As part of the announcement, they made a post describing S…
2 weeks ago
“Reasons to believe current AI models are conscious” by Eye You
There are a number of reasons to believe current AI models are conscious. I mean “conscious” is the sense of “is there something it is like to be an…
2 weeks ago
“Announcing the Corrigibility Research Fund” by Max Harms
TLDR: I'm managing a new fund, housed at Lightcone Infrastructure, that will award at least $200,000 in grants and prizes for corrigibility research…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“Inoculation Adapters Improve Upon Inoculation Prompting” by Maxime Riché, Daniel Tan, Vili Kohonen, nielsrolf
This is a link post for the paper preprint: Inoculation Adapters: Improved Selective Generalization of Capabilities with Fewer Surprising Backdoors …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“Guess on why rationality is not more popular (there are no pamphlets)” by Christopher King
First of all I should note that this post is just a guess! I have not run any experiments or anything.
But anyways my guess for why rationality is …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg” by Zvi
This week saw the releases of, among other things:
GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027. It is a good pla…2 weeks, 1 day ago