Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Model access for third-parties — it’s a big deal!” by Cleo Nardo
Over time, there might be an increasingly large gap between insider model access and outsider model access. By insiders, I mean employees at the fro…
1 month ago
“You Should Come to The AI Protest” by Ronak_Mehta
cart;horse: If you are in the Bay Area on July 11th, even if you're at a company being protested, you should come to The AI Protest. It's fully lega…
1 month ago
“Structural Proxies” by Raymond Douglas
Lately I've been thinking a lot about what work would help with actually winning and getting to good worlds. In the spirit of that I decided to vent…
1 month ago
“The consequences of locking intelligence away: an introduction to Claude relays in China” by CMLKevin
There has been recent discourse floating around on Hacker News about Chinese API relay stations that use every Western VC-subsidized channel of chea…
1 month ago
“The Once And Future Fable #5” by Zvi
We, or at least ‘more than 100 American institutions,’ got Mythos back this week.
What we the people do not have is Fable or Sol.
While we wait fo…
1 month ago
“In partial defence of p(doom)” by Mikhail Samin
p(doom) is a shorthand for some important bits and a way to notice a disagreement to double-crux about.
If you work on AI capabilities at a frontier…
1 month ago
“What Capable Agents Must Know: Why AI Consciousness May Be an Inevitable Byproduct of Capability” by Aran Nayebi
[No LLMs were used (or harmed!) in the writing of this blogpost!]
Technical results can all be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02491
This wor…
1 month ago
“Preliminary investigation: KL penalties in RL can increase CoT unfaithfulness” by 7vik, Sid Black, Joseph Bloom
Authors: Satvik Golechha, Sid Black, Joseph Bloom
Work done as part of the Model Transparency team at UK AISI. We consider this to be a small set of…
1 month ago
“Agency is not a natural kind (and why that might matter for alignment)” by SJ_Beard
Epistemic status: trying to articulate a big idea which I feel is important but underexplored, partly because it is hard to frame clearly - may not …
1 month ago
“Human-Guided Agentic Research: A Research Agenda” by fastfedora
tl;dr: As recursive self-improvement accelerates, we need a top-level agenda to research how to effectively keep humans in the loop. We need to stud…
1 month ago