Podcast Episodes

“Agents as Webs of Beliefs” by Richard_Ngo

In this post I’ll sketch out an informal model of intelligent agents as webs of beliefs (or belief webs for short). The belief webs framework pulls …

1 month ago

“Austin & Oli on funding and incubating projects” by Austin Chen, habryka

@habryka and I recently spoke about his plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform, and my new incubator for …

1 month ago

“Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness” by VojtaKovarik, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Mateusz Bagiński

TL;DR

Evaluation awareness — an AI recognizing it's being evaluated — is a widely discussed concept in AI safety. But there is a closely related con…

1 month ago

“Why are adversaries assumed to be incapable of responding to AI risk?” by KatjaGrace

When I talk to people about what might be done about AI threatening approximately everything that everyone cares about, I notice a common oddity in …

1 month ago

“What did “scheming”, “mech interp” mean pre-2023.” by Cleo Nardo

This was too long to be a short-form, but it should really be a short-form.

This notice is useful for people who've recently got into AI safety, who…

1 month ago

“Not making a strong argument is a relief” by Kaj_Sotala

When I was in middle school, one of our teachers gave us a “don’t do drugs” talk.

Somebody asked him whether he had ever used drugs himself. He repl…

1 month ago

“AI #174: You’re It” by Zvi

Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now av…

1 month ago

[Linkpost] “Don’t ignore the car crashes, and remember your freshman CS” by jcksanderson

This is a link post.

Car crashes kill over 35,000 people in the US every year. Plane crashes, on the other hand, kill ~350. Despite this, we have sho…

1 month ago

“White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6” by Zvi

We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.

We are now, it seems, going to have the White House individually, i…

1 month ago

“Chorus-Reinterpretation Country Songs” by jefftk

Our family is on vacation in North Carolina for a week, spending some time at a pool, and they're playing a (weirdly short) loop of music. Listenin…

1 month ago