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The Case Against AI Control Research

johnswentworth21 Jan 2025 16:03 UTC

433 points

85 comments6 min readLW link

What’s the short timeline plan?

Marius Hobbhahn2 Jan 2025 14:59 UTC

373 points

51 comments23 min readLW link

The Gentle Romance

Richard_Ngo19 Jan 2025 18:29 UTC

243 points

46 comments15 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

“Sharp Left Turn” discourse: An opinionated review

Steven Byrnes28 Jan 2025 18:47 UTC

228 points

31 comments31 min readLW link

Mechanisms too simple for humans to design

Malmesbury22 Jan 2025 16:54 UTC

221 points

47 comments15 min readLW link

Instrumental Goals Are A Different And Friendlier Kind Of Thing Than Terminal Goals

johnswentworth and David Lorell

24 Jan 2025 20:20 UTC

210 points

62 comments5 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann, Deger Turan, David Scott Krueger and David Duvenaud

30 Jan 2025 17:03 UTC

204 points

66 comments2 min readLW link

(gradual-disempowerment.ai)

What Is The Alignment Problem?

johnswentworth16 Jan 2025 1:20 UTC

184 points

49 comments25 min readLW link

How will we update about scheming?

ryan_greenblatt6 Jan 2025 20:21 UTC

177 points

21 comments37 min readLW link

Don’t ignore bad vibes you get from people

Kaj_Sotala18 Jan 2025 9:20 UTC

169 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty

tandem7 Jan 2025 19:11 UTC

164 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Capital Ownership Will Not Prevent Human Disempowerment

beren5 Jan 2025 6:00 UTC

164 points

21 comments14 min readLW link

Maximizing Communication, not Traffic

jefftk5 Jan 2025 13:00 UTC

162 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Ten people on the inside

Buck28 Jan 2025 16:41 UTC

155 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Applying traditional economic thinking to AGI: a trilemma

Steven Byrnes13 Jan 2025 1:23 UTC

155 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

The Intelligence Curse

lukedrago3 Jan 2025 19:07 UTC

155 points

27 comments18 min readLW link

(lukedrago.substack.com)

Human takeover might be worse than AI takeover

Tom Davidson10 Jan 2025 16:53 UTC

155 points

58 comments8 min readLW link

(forethoughtnewsletter.substack.com)

Activation space interpretability may be doomed

bilalchughtai and Lucius Bushnaq

8 Jan 2025 12:49 UTC

154 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

OpenAI #10: Reflections

Zvi7 Jan 2025 17:00 UTC

149 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Quotes from the Stargate press conference

Nikola Jurkovic22 Jan 2025 0:50 UTC

149 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.c-span.org)

AI companies are unlikely to make high-assurance safety cases if timelines are short

ryan_greenblatt23 Jan 2025 18:41 UTC

146 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1

henry25 Jan 2025 22:55 UTC

145 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

What Indicators Should We Watch to Disambiguate AGI Timelines?

snewman6 Jan 2025 19:57 UTC

144 points

57 comments13 min readLW link

Planning for Extreme AI Risks

joshc29 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC

143 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors

Martín Soto and Owain_Evans

22 Jan 2025 0:47 UTC

136 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Training on Documents About Reward Hacking Induces Reward Hacking

evhub and Nathan Hu

21 Jan 2025 21:32 UTC

135 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

Building AI Research Fleets

Ben Goldhaber and Jesse Hoogland

12 Jan 2025 18:23 UTC

132 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Parkinson’s Law and the Ideology of Statistics

Benquo4 Jan 2025 15:49 UTC

130 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2024 in AI predictions

jessicata1 Jan 2025 20:29 UTC

127 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Comment on “Death and the Gorgon”

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2025 5:47 UTC

124 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

My supervillain origin story

Dmitry Vaintrob27 Jan 2025 12:20 UTC

123 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Fake thinking and real thinking

Joe Carlsmith28 Jan 2025 20:05 UTC

120 points

17 comments38 min readLW link

The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time to rethink what you’re doing

LintzA28 Jan 2025 23:36 UTC

118 points

30 comments13 min readLW link

Tips On Empirical Research Slides

James Chua, John Hughes, Ethan Perez and Owain_Evans

8 Jan 2025 5:06 UTC

117 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

How do you deal w/ Super Stimuli?

Logan Riggs14 Jan 2025 15:14 UTC

115 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Tips and Code for Empirical Research Workflows

John Hughes and Ethan Perez

20 Jan 2025 22:31 UTC

110 points

17 comments20 min readLW link

Attribution-based parameter decomposition

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, StefanHex, jake_mendel and Lee Sharkey

25 Jan 2025 13:12 UTC

109 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(publications.apolloresearch.ai)

Aristocracy and Hostage Capital

Arjun Panickssery8 Jan 2025 19:38 UTC

108 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The subset parity learning problem: much more than you wanted to know

Dmitry Vaintrob3 Jan 2025 9:13 UTC

107 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

The purposeful drunkard

Dmitry Vaintrob12 Jan 2025 12:27 UTC

103 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

Reasons for and against working on technical AI safety at a frontier AI lab

bilalchughtai5 Jan 2025 14:49 UTC

101 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

Heritability: Five Battles

Steven Byrnes14 Jan 2025 18:21 UTC

100 points

27 comments55 min readLW link

We probably won’t just play status games with each other after AGI

Matthew Barnett15 Jan 2025 4:56 UTC

99 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

The Rising Sea

Jesse Hoogland25 Jan 2025 20:48 UTC

97 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Implications of the inference scaling paradigm for AI safety

Ryan Kidd14 Jan 2025 2:14 UTC

96 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

On Eating the Sun

jessicata8 Jan 2025 4:57 UTC

96 points

99 comments3 min readLW link

(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Six Thoughts on AI Safety

Boaz Barak24 Jan 2025 22:20 UTC

95 points

56 comments15 min readLW link

Five Recent AI Tutoring Studies

Arjun Panickssery19 Jan 2025 3:53 UTC

94 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Manhattan Trap: Why a Race to Artificial Superintelligence is Self-Defeating

Corin Katzke and GideonF

21 Jan 2025 16:57 UTC

92 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Introducing Squiggle AI

ozziegooen3 Jan 2025 17:53 UTC

92 points

15 comments8 min readLW link