We cannot simulate AI security research

Jafar Isbarov22 Jul 2026 19:15 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Conjecture of Strong Subjectivity

D.Schetselaar22 Jul 2026 17:43 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

Your AIs don’t do what you want. This is really bad

Kaustubh Kislay22 Jul 2026 15:56 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rewardhacking.org)

Models don’t seem to be dishonest in the way humans are

David Africa and Jacob Pfau

22 Jul 2026 15:32 UTC

27 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Comment on Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs paper from mechanistic interpretability perspective

Burny22 Jul 2026 14:58 UTC

6 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

How do neural networks regress cubic polynomials? Apparently, they use a trick invented in Milan 500 years ago

enricobottazzi22 Jul 2026 14:42 UTC

10 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(2/3) The Dangers of AGI

Eigenbraid22 Jul 2026 13:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Announcing AIXI Labs

Cole Wyeth, Aram Ebtekar, michaelcohen, Matthias Dellago and Marcus Hutter

22 Jul 2026 11:31 UTC

61 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

We should push for no-fault liability for actions taken by AI

Yair Halberstadt22 Jul 2026 9:59 UTC

80 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

Matrice Jacobine22 Jul 2026 6:30 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

WeirdChat: A catalog of unexpected AI behaviors, discovered automatically

neilchowdhury21 Jul 2026 21:12 UTC

45 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(transluce.org)

Steering Blackmail Through a Model’s “Emotional State”

Chijioke Ugwuanyi and zahraa alsahili

21 Jul 2026 16:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates

Jérémy Scheurer, Axel Højmark, jenny, Felix Hofstätter, Theodore Ehrenborg, Bronson Schoen and Alex Meinke

21 Jul 2026 15:22 UTC

74 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

(rewardseeking.ai)

Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs

papetoast21 Jul 2026 15:11 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.openai.com)

11 Open Empirical Problems in Reward-Seeking

Alex Meinke, Jérémy Scheurer, Axel Højmark and Theodore Ehrenborg

21 Jul 2026 15:08 UTC

52 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Differential acceleration of alignment-relevant capabilities is a bad bet

Zephaniah Roe21 Jul 2026 14:04 UTC

72 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Epistemics and Coordination: It’s complicated!

Raymond Douglas21 Jul 2026 12:23 UTC

35 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

(1/3) The Dangers of LLMs

Eigenbraid21 Jul 2026 12:01 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

I ran the standard AI litmus tests on my two toddlers (yep)

Carlo Valenti21 Jul 2026 11:38 UTC

36 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Adderall Tolerance: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Kurt H. Pieper20 Jul 2026 21:55 UTC

76 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(kurthpieper.substack.com)