[Question] To what ex­tent is AI safety work try­ing to get AI to re­li­ably and safely do what the user asks vs. do what is best in some ul­ti­mate sense?

Jordan ArelMay 23, 2025, 9:05 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

De­fault his­tory is dead wrong

kilgoarMay 23, 2025, 4:31 PM
−20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Claude 4 Sys­tem Card

DentosalMay 23, 2025, 3:23 PM
19 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

What is empti­ness?

Vadim GolubMay 23, 2025, 12:06 PM
−4 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Idiohobbies

dkl9May 23, 2025, 6:38 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

Qual­i­ta­tive Fit Testing

jefftkMay 23, 2025, 2:50 AM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­thropic is Quietly Backpedal­ling on its Safety Commitments

garrisonMay 23, 2025, 2:26 AM
80 points
7 commentsLW link
(www.obsolete.pub)

Learn­ing (more) from horse em­ploy­ment history

Tim HMay 23, 2025, 2:11 AM
68 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Schizobench: Doc­u­ment­ing Mag­i­cal-Think­ing Be­hav­ior in Claude 4 Opus

viemccoyMay 23, 2025, 1:31 AM
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(metanomicon.ink)

Post-Man­i­fest cowork­ing at Mox

May 23, 2025, 12:20 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Claude 4, Op­por­tunis­tic Black­mail, and “Pleas”

Stephen MartinMay 22, 2025, 7:59 PM
24 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Prob­lems in AI Align­ment: A Scale Model

Mickey MuldoonMay 22, 2025, 7:22 PM
−1 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(muldoon.cloud)

Art Is Art: AI Is the Next Erotica

Charlie EdwardsMay 22, 2025, 6:04 PM
0 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

Re­ward but­ton alignment

Steven ByrnesMay 22, 2025, 5:36 PM
50 points
15 comments12 min readLW link

We’re Not Ad­ver­tis­ing Enough (Post 3 of 6 on AI Gover­nance)

Mass_DriverMay 22, 2025, 5:05 PM
109 points
10 comments28 min readLW link

Claude 4

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 22, 2025, 5:00 PM
71 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

Video and tran­script of talk on AI welfare

Joe CarlsmithMay 22, 2025, 4:15 PM
24 points
1 comment28 min readLW link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

What we can learn from af­ter­life myths

jchanMay 22, 2025, 3:49 PM
5 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Policy recom­men­da­tions re­gard­ing re­pro­duc­tive technology

TsviBTMay 22, 2025, 2:49 PM
76 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

AI #117: OpenAI Buys De­vice Maker IO

ZviMay 22, 2025, 1:40 PM
37 points
9 comments62 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Does BPC-157 work for heal­ing and tis­sue re­pair?

ChristianKlMay 22, 2025, 1:18 PM
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(somaticsignals.jollyjoyjourney.com)

[Question] How load-bear­ing is KL di­ver­gence from a known-good base model in mod­ern RL?

faul_snameMay 22, 2025, 12:08 PM
12 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Chris­ti­an­ity vs. Tantra vs. Sex – one spiritual path?

pchvykovMay 22, 2025, 11:15 AM
−2 points
0 comments24 min readLW link

Mir­ror Or­ganisms Are Not Im­mune to Predation

Matthias DellagoMay 22, 2025, 11:10 AM
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How 2025 AI Fore­casts Fared So Far

May 22, 2025, 9:42 AM
11 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(theaidigest.org)

Con­tain and ver­ify: The endgame of US-China AI competition

sjadlerMay 22, 2025, 8:13 AM
5 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Laugencroissant

Martin SustrikMay 22, 2025, 6:30 AM
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(250bpm.substack.com)

Google I/​O Day

ZviMay 21, 2025, 10:00 PM
49 points
0 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pod­cast: How not to waste a billion dol­lars (on your clini­cal trial), with Meri Beck­with on Devel­op­ment & Research

rossryMay 21, 2025, 9:27 PM
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(developmentandresearch.bio)

Pod­cast: From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rhe­in­gans-Yoo on Com­plex Systems

rossryMay 21, 2025, 9:08 PM
15 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.complexsystemspodcast.com)

The stakes of AI moral status

Joe CarlsmithMay 21, 2025, 6:20 PM
78 points
62 comments14 min readLW link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

[Question] Which AI Safety tech­niques will be in­effec­tive against diffu­sion mod­els?

Allen ThomasMay 21, 2025, 6:13 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Through The Look­ing Glasses: Is­sues & Solu­tions for Aug­mented Reality

claywrenMay 21, 2025, 6:11 PM
1 point
0 comments22 min readLW link

Root­ing for Mo­ments, Not Jerseys. Another Ap­proach to En­joy­ing Sports

Ahmed ElsayyadMay 21, 2025, 6:11 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Un­ex­ploitable search: block­ing mal­i­cious use of free parameters

May 21, 2025, 5:23 PM
34 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

The Real AI Safety Risk Is a Con­cep­tual Ex­ploit: Anthropomorphism

Anthony FoxMay 21, 2025, 4:29 PM
−2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

You Can’t Skip Ex­plo­ra­tion: Why un­der­stand­ing ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and taste is key to un­der­stand­ing AI

Oliver SourbutMay 21, 2025, 4:08 PM
18 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(www.oliversourbut.net)

The Prob­lem and Op­por­tu­nity of Scale

belosMay 21, 2025, 3:52 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link
(bestofagreatlot.substack.com)

Sleep need re­duc­tion therapies

harsimonyMay 21, 2025, 3:22 PM
76 points
18 comments10 min readLW link
(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Parental Guidance: Fram­ing Su­per­in­tel­li­gence

ejk64May 21, 2025, 3:01 PM
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Why Aren’t Ra­tion­al­ists Win­ning (Again)

k64May 21, 2025, 2:46 PM
6 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Can We Nat­u­ral­ize Mo­ral Episte­mol­ogy?

tylermjohn May 21, 2025, 2:25 PM
50 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Units Have More Depth Than I Thought

MorpheusMay 21, 2025, 1:51 PM
33 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans are Inse­cure Pass­word Generators

Isaac KingMay 21, 2025, 5:58 AM
15 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Cross­post] An­thropic Shadow Geopolitics

akarlinMay 21, 2025, 4:50 AM
8 points
5 comments18 min readLW link

The Need for Poli­ti­cal Ad­ver­tis­ing (Post 2 of 6 on AI Gover­nance)

Mass_DriverMay 21, 2025, 12:44 AM
54 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Notes from Dopamine Detoxing

Alice BlairMay 20, 2025, 11:43 PM
13 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing the ideas for non-neu­ralese architectures

StanislavKrymMay 20, 2025, 11:35 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gem­ini Diffu­sion: watch this space

Yair HalberstadtMay 20, 2025, 7:29 PM
191 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.google)

A Sketch of Be­loc­racy: a new sys­tem of governance

belosMay 20, 2025, 6:30 PM
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(bestofagreatlot.substack.com)