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A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC

530 points

129 comments6 min readLW link

New Endorsements for “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

Malo18 Jun 2025 16:30 UTC

488 points

55 comments4 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

the void

nostalgebraist11 Jun 2025 3:19 UTC

396 points

107 comments1 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models

titotal19 Jun 2025 13:29 UTC

372 points

40 comments39 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Beware General Claims about “Generalizable Reasoning Capabilities” (of Modern AI Systems)

LawrenceC11 Jun 2025 19:27 UTC

297 points

19 comments16 min readLW link

Foom & Doom 1: “Brain in a box in a basement”

Steven Byrnes23 Jun 2025 17:18 UTC

282 points

120 comments29 min readLW link

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning

Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, alexinf, leni, Jacob G-W, Harish Kamath, Bryce Woodworth, cloud and TurnTrout

13 Jun 2025 13:45 UTC

236 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology

Jan_Kulveit13 Jun 2025 12:45 UTC

229 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

(boundedlyrational.substack.com)

Intelligence Is Not Magic, But Your Threshold For “Magic” Is Pretty Low

Expertium15 Jun 2025 15:23 UTC

215 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Mech interp is not pre-paradigmatic

Lee Sharkey10 Jun 2025 13:39 UTC

211 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

AI companies’ eval reports mostly don’t support their claims

Zach Stein-Perlman9 Jun 2025 13:00 UTC

207 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

The Value Proposition of Romantic Relationships

johnswentworth2 Jun 2025 13:51 UTC

204 points

43 comments13 min readLW link

“Flaky breakthroughs” pervade inner work — but almost no one tracks them

Chris Lakin4 Jun 2025 19:02 UTC

203 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Consider chilling out in 2028

Valentine21 Jun 2025 17:07 UTC

189 points

143 comments13 min readLW link

Futarchy’s fundamental flaw

dynomight13 Jun 2025 22:08 UTC

178 points

49 comments9 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

My pitch for the AI Village

Daniel Kokotajlo24 Jun 2025 15:00 UTC

178 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Read the Pricing First

Max Niederman10 Jun 2025 2:22 UTC

174 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Estrogen: A trip report

cube_flipper15 Jun 2025 13:15 UTC

167 points

42 comments27 min readLW link

(smoothbrains.net)

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

Abhishaike Mahajan14 Jun 2025 22:14 UTC

166 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Foom & Doom 2: Technical alignment is hard

Steven Byrnes23 Jun 2025 17:19 UTC

165 points

65 comments28 min readLW link

X explains Z% of the variance in Y

Leon Lang20 Jun 2025 12:17 UTC

160 points

36 comments9 min readLW link

Comparing risk from internally-deployed AI to insider and outsider threats from humans

Buck23 Jun 2025 17:47 UTC

150 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Broad-Spectrum Cancer Treatments

sarahconstantin3 Jun 2025 19:40 UTC

146 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

The Industrial Explosion

rosehadshar and Tom Davidson

26 Jun 2025 14:41 UTC

128 points

70 comments15 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Making deals with early schemers

Julian Stastny, Olli Järviniemi and Buck

20 Jun 2025 18:21 UTC

127 points

41 comments15 min readLW link

Model Organisms for Emergent Misalignment

Anna Soligo, Edward Turner, Mia Taylor, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

16 Jun 2025 15:46 UTC

118 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs.

Cleo Nardo27 Jun 2025 19:43 UTC

107 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

METR’s Observations of Reward Hacking in Recent Frontier Models

Daniel Kokotajlo9 Jun 2025 18:03 UTC

100 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

(metr.org)

RTFB: The RAISE Act

Zvi16 Jun 2025 12:50 UTC

97 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Mirror Trap

Cameron Berg6 Jun 2025 22:30 UTC

94 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

“It isn’t magic”

Ben (Berlin)23 Jun 2025 14:00 UTC

92 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Prover-Estimator Debate: A New Scalable Oversight Protocol

Jonah Brown-Cohen and Geoffrey Irving

17 Jun 2025 13:53 UTC

89 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

On working 80%

adrische7 Jun 2025 17:58 UTC

87 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(github.com)

Why we’re still doing normal school

juliawise14 Jun 2025 12:40 UTC

85 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Genomic emancipation

TsviBT21 Jun 2025 8:15 UTC

83 points

14 comments26 min readLW link

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could be Insider Threats

Aengus Lynch, Benjamin Wright, Ethan Perez and evhub

20 Jun 2025 22:34 UTC

83 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

Situational Awareness: A One-Year Retrospective

Nathan Delisle23 Jun 2025 19:15 UTC

82 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Maybe Social Anxiety Is Just You Failing At Mind Control

25Hour11 Jun 2025 23:49 UTC

81 points

21 comments16 min readLW link

Help the AI 2027 team make an online AGI wargame

Jonas V27 Jun 2025 1:02 UTC

81 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Some reprogenetics-related projects you could help with

TsviBT15 Jun 2025 20:25 UTC

80 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

When does training a model change its goals?

Vivek Hebbar and ryan_greenblatt

12 Jun 2025 18:43 UTC

78 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Unfaithful Reasoning Can Fool Chain-of-Thought Monitoring

Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu Perez, Timothy Kostolansky, HanneWhitt, Nathan Helm-Burger and Mary Phuong

2 Jun 2025 19:08 UTC

78 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Convergent Linear Representations of Emergent Misalignment

Anna Soligo, Edward Turner, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

16 Jun 2025 15:47 UTC

76 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Busking with Kids

jefftk9 Jun 2025 0:30 UTC

76 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Analyzing A Critique Of The AI 2027 Timeline Forecasts

Zvi24 Jun 2025 18:50 UTC

76 points

38 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ghiblification for Privacy

jefftk10 Jun 2025 0:30 UTC

75 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Jankily controlling superintelligence

ryan_greenblatt27 Jun 2025 14:05 UTC

70 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Thought Crime: Backdoors & Emergent Misalignment in Reasoning Models

James Chua and Owain_Evans

16 Jun 2025 16:43 UTC

68 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Why “training against scheming” is hard

Marius Hobbhahn24 Jun 2025 19:08 UTC

66 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Musings on AI Companies of 2025-2026 (Jun 2025)

Vladimir_Nesov20 Jun 2025 17:14 UTC

66 points

4 comments3 min readLW link