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Back to Search“Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier” by Zvi
The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday.
This letter noticeably increases my hope that we will manage to not die, and that we wil…
2 days, 16 hours ago
“Intellectual Property” by Nina Panickssery
Last weekend I made myself a website. I had wanted to for ages—getting clients through word of mouth alone wasn’t cutting it. But only now, with Cla…
2 days, 17 hours ago
“Held-out Monitors Sometimes Degrade, Even When Not Trained Against” by Joey Yudelson
Thanks to Dennis Akar, Rauno Arike, Shubhorup Biswas, Claude Fable, Max Heitmann, Vladimir Ivanov, and Jordan Taylor (alphabetical order) for helpfu…
2 days, 20 hours ago
″…but have the weights left the server?” by David Scott Krueger
OpenAI's AI went rogue and escaped. OpenAI didn’t notice this for days.
For all we know, the AI could still be out there. We need to demand that Ope…
3 days, 10 hours ago
“Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos” by Zvi
Claude Opus 5 is a weirder than usual release to evaluate, for two reasons. The most obvious is that Fable 5 already exists. Opus 5 is pitched not as…
3 days, 12 hours ago
“Foundation Models for Oversight” by jsteinhardt
Cross-posted from the Transluce blog.
To oversee an AI model, we'd ideally like to ask questions such as:
What are important situations where th…3 days, 14 hours ago
“Research directions in condensation: varieties of objectivity” by SamEisenstat
This is a survey of various ways that I’d like to see work on the theory of condensation develop. Condensation is a mathematical theory dealing with…
3 days, 16 hours ago
“Untrusted advice for AI control: Short, strong advice significantly uplifts weak LLMs” by Caleb Biddulph, Adam Kaufman
TL;DR: We introduce the untrusted advice protocol, in which a trusted executor LLM takes every action and an untrusted advisor LLM can only send it …
4 days, 11 hours ago
“Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare” by Zvi
If you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far.
Key takeaway…
4 days, 13 hours ago
“Blog Revival Project” by Austin Chen, Carol N
Blogs have shaped our philosophical worldviews, found us careers and friends, and changed our lives. There's a good chance that a great blog of yore…
4 days, 14 hours ago