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The Goblins Are the Paperclips

Hisku9 May 2026 22:51 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

International Law Cannot Prevent Extinction Either

Sausage Vector Machine9 May 2026 22:34 UTC

102 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Avoid alienating the marginal audience member

winfield9 May 2026 22:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Do capabilities generalize across propensities?

Emil Ryd9 May 2026 21:39 UTC

25 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Neural Networks learn Bloom Filters

Alex Gibson9 May 2026 20:32 UTC

57 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

Explaining Volition Without Resorting to Free Will

joseph_c9 May 2026 18:57 UTC

20 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Second order thoughts on current AI agents

Michael Flood9 May 2026 18:40 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

cube_flipper9 May 2026 15:08 UTC

38 points

42 comments19 min readLW link

(smoothbrains.net)

Why You Can’t Use Your Right to Try

Stephen Martin9 May 2026 6:47 UTC

43 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(x.com)

Does Opus 4.7 Generate Deceptive Denials About Its Own Guardrails?

usize9 May 2026 4:12 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(usize.github.io)

Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis

Linch9 May 2026 1:30 UTC

264 points

74 comments3 min readLW link

We Should Have Mandatory Media/Communications Training For All Communicators

Darren McKee8 May 2026 20:29 UTC

2 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Chess as a prediction model of the artificial intelligence impact on culture

8498 May 2026 20:19 UTC

−12 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(lojkine.art)

The Saturation View: some responses

wdmacaskill8 May 2026 17:32 UTC

25 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Is ProgramBench Impossible?

frmsaul8 May 2026 17:04 UTC

83 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8

Zvi8 May 2026 16:40 UTC

45 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures

jefftk8 May 2026 15:50 UTC

78 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Please Be Serious

Oliver Kuperman8 May 2026 14:36 UTC

−11 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Write Cause You Have Something to Say

Logan Riggs8 May 2026 13:36 UTC

37 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Userland Alignment

Josh H8 May 2026 13:31 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A benchmark is a sensor

Håvard Tveit Ihle and Mathias Bynke

8 May 2026 13:24 UTC

36 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Bringing More Expertise to Bear on Alignment

Edmund Lau, Geoffrey Irving, Cameron Holmes and David Africa

8 May 2026 10:29 UTC

87 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

The Jailbroken Boy of Rushmore

jdcampolargo8 May 2026 6:29 UTC

24 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL

papetoast8 May 2026 6:17 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.openai.com)

Uncertain Updates: May 2026

Gordon Seidoh Worley8 May 2026 1:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.uncertainupdates.com)

The Frictionless Double

zw57 May 2026 23:11 UTC

10 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

The AI industry is where banking was in 2006. (We’re hiring)

felixgaston7 May 2026 21:52 UTC

53 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations

Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong and Sam Marks

7 May 2026 20:21 UTC

213 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

Axes of Planning in LLMs + Partial Lit Review

NickyP7 May 2026 19:53 UTC

12 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(blog.sus.cat)

A review of “Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL”

Buck7 May 2026 18:06 UTC

76 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Try, even if they have you cold

WalterL7 May 2026 17:19 UTC

102 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Mechanistic estimation for wide random MLPs

Jacob_Hilton7 May 2026 16:20 UTC

85 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Over Eight Months of Progress in Two: Analyzing the Mythos Preview Capability Jump

Alvin Ånestrand7 May 2026 16:19 UTC

10 points

8 comments17 min readLW link

(forecastingaifutures.substack.com)

AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins

Zvi7 May 2026 13:50 UTC

39 points

7 comments45 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to get better at chess (and everything else)

Sean Herrington7 May 2026 11:17 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.chess.com)

Multipolar Civilisation Depends on Maintaining an Attacker’s Dilemma

Naci Cankaya7 May 2026 11:13 UTC

27 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(nacicankaya.substack.com)

Sculpted Interaction: a Design-First Approach to AI Alignment

magfrump6 May 2026 23:47 UTC

15 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Psychopathy: The Choice

Dawn Drescher6 May 2026 22:23 UTC

22 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Many individual CEVs are probably quite bad

Viliam6 May 2026 20:18 UTC

109 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

Blind deep-deployment evals for control & sabotage

Dylan Bowman6 May 2026 19:54 UTC

27 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Using Base-LCM to Monitor LLMs

Éloïse Benito-Rodriguez and NickyP

6 May 2026 19:28 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Agent Ontology: A Constraint-Based Approach

tamas.bartha6 May 2026 19:26 UTC

−9 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Will Claude cause the next Covid?

Kate Delbeke6 May 2026 19:26 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

SVD on Weight Differences for Model Auditing

Mukesh R6 May 2026 19:26 UTC

14 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Half an argument against the (rationalist’s) many worlds interpretation

Bill Jackson6 May 2026 19:22 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(billjackson7.substack.com)

AI Safety HK: Social #1 + Reading Group #1

Schizoid Rentoid6 May 2026 19:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Hong Kong: Social #1 + Reading group #1

Schizoid Rentoid6 May 2026 19:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Preliminary Evidence for Value Convergence in AI models

John Matrix6 May 2026 19:15 UTC

1 point

1 comment7 min readLW link

Drifting

Priyanka Bharadwaj6 May 2026 19:14 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A draft honesty policy for credible communication with AI systems

Mia Taylor, Lukas Finnveden and Max Dalton

6 May 2026 18:50 UTC

3 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)