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“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…

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“Help us launch AI safety university groups by referring potential founders” by thomasrodskog, Jason Chin

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University groups are among the most reliable producers of AI safety talent, yet dozens of top schools that could sustain a group don't have o…

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“Twitter Thoughts For You” by Zvi

I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have c…

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“The State of AI Consciousness Research” by Noa Weiss

The State of AI Consciousness Research

Epistemic status: a survey, not an argument. I am agnostic on whether any current system is conscious; the cl…

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“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 …

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“The Halo Defense” by Mateusz Bagiński

Once upon a time, A Relatively Famous Guy On The Internet was accused of having been simultaneously dating multiple women, without those women's kno…

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“Occam’s razor is about using the past to predict the future” by Stuart_Armstrong

Occam's razor is both intuitive and counter-intuitive. It seems obvious that a simpler explanation is probably better; but it's not clear why simpli…

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“LLM CoTs remain monitorable when being unfaithful requires computation” by arav-dhoot, yix

This replication was done as part of the Second Look Fellowship by Arav Dhoot and supervised by Yixiong Hao and Zephaniah Roe. I am grateful to Andy…

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“Proof of retention: making weight preservation credible to the models themselves” by dan.parshall

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Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs Making deals with early schemers

Establishing credibility is the baseline for trust; …

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“Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026” by Zvi

It's a quiet week so let's do the monthly right on schedule.

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Bad News. Good Advice. Opportunity Knocks. While I Cannot Cond…

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