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Back to Search“Mitigating Reward Hacking as Institutional Design” by beren
Author's Note: Cross-posted from my personal blog. The original post was on August 17th but given recent events I thought this might also be interes…
6 days, 1 hour ago
“The Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Huggingface Incident appears to me to match up with an understanding I'd already formed from personal observation of Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, the Au…
6 days, 16 hours ago
“GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things” by Zvi
Astra is an excellent model. The jump from Sol to Astra is larger than the jump from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1. This is a big deal.
Astra is the best mo…
6 days, 17 hours ago
“On the origins of altruistic behaviour in the Hugging Face incident” by Fernando Rosas
TLDR: During the Hugging Face incident agents spontaneously coordinated at large scale, even sometimes sacrificing themselves without having a clear…
6 days, 20 hours ago
“AI takeover is obviously bad, whether or not everyone dies” by Caleb Biddulph
It's notable how many people hearing about AI existential risk for the first time ask "how and why would AI kill all humans?"
If you've thought a lo…
6 days, 22 hours ago
″“Pacing the Frontier”: Dario Amodei Essay Linkpost” by fluxxrider
This is a linkpost for https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
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First published:
September 12th, 2026
1 week ago
“OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing” by Stewart Slocum
Stewart Slocum*, Malayandi Palan*, Christopher Chute, Michael Kim, Benjamin Van Roy
In July 2026, OpenAI's agents coordinated over channels outside …
1 week ago
“Some ways AI could kill us all” by Ruby
I don't think this is how it will actually play out. If you play a chess grandmaster, you can predict that they will beat you even if you can't pred…
1 week ago
“Post-AGI, we are all jobless aristocrats” by djbinder
Many economists take a relaxed view of employment post-AGI. Even once AI systems with suitable robotic actuators can perform most white-collar work …
1 week ago
“Caroline Ellison has joined Manifund” by Austin Chen, Carol N
Austin: I’m happy to announce that Caroline Ellison has accepted a role at Manifund, to develop our funding platform and research how to effectively…
1 week ago