Will we re­ally put data cen­ters in space?

22 May 2026 23:51 UTC
91 points
23 comments5 min readLW link
(www.forethought.org)

We made a map of the doom debate

22 May 2026 23:24 UTC
40 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Which tech­ni­cal AI safety fields are go­ing to be au­to­mated first?

Chamod Kalupahana22 May 2026 17:32 UTC
21 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Gem­ini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is

Zvi22 May 2026 17:30 UTC
34 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The AI In­dus­trial Ex­plo­sion — Part 3: Go­ing faster

djbinder22 May 2026 16:38 UTC
19 points
2 comments14 min readLW link
(defensesindepth.bio)

Strong Longter­mism Is Sim­ply Cor­rect

Bentham's Bulldog22 May 2026 15:57 UTC
1 point
1 comment19 min readLW link

Notes on Col­lab­o­rat­ing with Claude Opus

Nissa Seru22 May 2026 15:35 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posal for “Timelines to what”: DIAL distribution

tlevin22 May 2026 14:40 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI is Not Nor­mal Technology

Olivia Scharfman22 May 2026 10:27 UTC
16 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Count­ing Ar­gu­ments in AI Safety

Samuel Ratnam22 May 2026 8:43 UTC
16 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(substack.com)

In­surance Premiums To The Moon

PossiblyElaine22 May 2026 6:09 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(possiblyelaine.substack.com)

Moder­a­tor’s Prin­ci­ple of Least Surprise

Czynski21 May 2026 21:02 UTC
21 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(dangeroussincerity.substack.com)

You can opt out of allergies

Rattengift21 May 2026 19:54 UTC
31 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble red is red

avturchin21 May 2026 17:30 UTC
1 point
9 comments4 min readLW link

Apr-May 2026 AI Se­cu­rity via For­mal Methods

Quinn21 May 2026 15:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.for-all.dev)

An In­tro­duc­tion to Neo-Fatal­ism

julius vidal21 May 2026 15:18 UTC
4 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(cyberzenics.substack.com)

Loss of Over­sight: How AI Sys­tems May Be­come Harder to Au­dit, Mon­i­tor, and Investigate

21 May 2026 14:52 UTC
83 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.aisi.gov.uk)

AI #169: New Knowledge

Zvi21 May 2026 13:20 UTC
39 points
10 comments47 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What am I, if not an AI?

makiba21 May 2026 13:14 UTC
84 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Learned Chain-of-Thought Obfus­ca­tion Gen­er­al­ises to Unseen Tasks

21 May 2026 10:11 UTC
31 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Why is hav­ing a child in­her­ently self­ish?

JacksonTan21 May 2026 3:51 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Numb men­tal state shifts

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Women should be able to open things

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC
340 points
134 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Why are peo­ple so scared of caus­ing fear?

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC
39 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Doc­u­ment-tun­ing in­stills durable an­i­mal com­pas­sion in LLMs (and gen­er­al­izes to hu­mans)

21 May 2026 3:29 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

What About Us?

James Stephen Brown21 May 2026 2:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

The Whole Kit­ten-Cavoodle

James Stephen Brown21 May 2026 2:32 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Why does off-model SFT de­grade ca­pa­bil­ities?

21 May 2026 0:35 UTC
42 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

If I Were Em­peror of New AI Safety Re­searcher Train­ing...

Lorxus20 May 2026 23:10 UTC
21 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(tiled-with-pentagons.blogspot.com)

the­ory up­lift differ­en­tially benefits safety & is underleveraged

yudhister20 May 2026 21:43 UTC
133 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing The­ory Com­pre­hen­sive − 1

Agastya Agrawal20 May 2026 20:00 UTC
35 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Sparse Effi­ciency vs. Su­per­po­si­tion: The In­ter­pretabil­ity Tradeoff

hillz20 May 2026 19:14 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Eval­u­at­ing Model Behaviors

jsteinhardt20 May 2026 18:42 UTC
40 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Toward In­ter­op­er­abil­ity of Min­i­mal Programs

johnswentworth20 May 2026 18:37 UTC
58 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty $2,000 Es­say Contest

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 May 2026 15:20 UTC
25 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(www.uncertainupdates.com)

Syn­thetic Per­sona Pre­train­ing: Align­ment from To­ken Zero

20 May 2026 14:16 UTC
110 points
26 comments17 min readLW link

Give my chil­dren minds

momom220 May 2026 14:14 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Check out my tech­nolog­i­cal up­lift­ing, civ­i­liza­tion-build­ing, and sci­ence in a magic world fic­tion!

Jens Brandt20 May 2026 12:30 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Power-seek­ing agents will likely be developed

Alec Harris20 May 2026 9:26 UTC
42 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ap­ply now to Hu­man-Aligned AI Sum­mer School 2026

20 May 2026 8:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(humanaligned.ai)

From 8B to Fron­tier: How Sys­tem Prompts Con­trol Whether AI Agents Black­mail, Leak, and Kill

Chijioke Ugwuanyi20 May 2026 8:28 UTC
15 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

If AI is nor­mal tech­nol­ogy, his­tory is not re­as­sur­ing.

Davidmanheim20 May 2026 7:21 UTC
59 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Pythagorean addition

kqr20 May 2026 7:13 UTC
32 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(entropicthoughts.com)

So you don’t want ev­ery­body to die

Rattengift20 May 2026 5:10 UTC
−14 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Tem­po­ral Pro­por­tional Representation

thomascolthurst20 May 2026 1:39 UTC
10 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Con­clave 1492

Vaniver19 May 2026 23:44 UTC
72 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Child­hood And Ed­u­ca­tion #19: Let­ting Kids Be Kids #2

Zvi19 May 2026 22:20 UTC
21 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Im­pli­ca­tions Of Pre­dict­ing The Next Token

jdp19 May 2026 22:17 UTC
108 points
6 comments31 min readLW link
(minihf.com)

Which goals ac­tu­ally mo­ti­vate de­cep­tive al­ign­ment?

19 May 2026 21:53 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Hous­ing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters

Zvi19 May 2026 21:40 UTC
19 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)