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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)

x-risk-themed

kave6 May 2026 15:16 UTC

235 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

(kaverennedy.substack.com)

Monday AI Radar #24

Against Moloch6 May 2026 15:05 UTC

10 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(againstmoloch.substack.com)

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of April 2026

gasteigerjo6 May 2026 13:58 UTC

18 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

What is Anthropic?

Zvi6 May 2026 13:30 UTC

65 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is no evidence you should reapply sunscreen every 2 hours.

Hide6 May 2026 9:19 UTC

85 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(hidefromit.substack.com)

Building An Ancestor Simulation #2

Mira Kennard6 May 2026 8:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Psychopathy: The Types

Dawn Drescher6 May 2026 7:35 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Toward a Better Evaluations Ecosystem

Benjamin Arnav5 May 2026 22:29 UTC

24 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Model Spec Midtraining: Improving How Alignment Training Generalizes

Chloe Li, Nevan Wichers, saraprice, Sam Marks and Jonathan Kutasov

5 May 2026 21:55 UTC

71 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

Positive Feedback Only

Florian_Dietz5 May 2026 21:28 UTC

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?

deep5 May 2026 20:50 UTC

45 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(expectedsurprise.substack.com)

Decision theory doesn’t prove that useful strong AIs will doom us all

deep5 May 2026 20:47 UTC

8 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(expectedsurprise.substack.com)

Psychopathy: The Mechanics

Dawn Drescher5 May 2026 20:26 UTC

2 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

A Federal Inmate Asks: Was My Prosecution Rational?

seth_tins5 May 2026 19:56 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins

Zvi5 May 2026 19:30 UTC

63 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Your rights when flying to Europe

Yair Halberstadt5 May 2026 19:17 UTC

92 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Interpreting Language Model Parameters

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors and Lee Sharkey

5 May 2026 17:37 UTC

162 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.goodfire.ai)

Motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and AI risk theory

Seth Herd5 May 2026 15:56 UTC

66 points

18 comments41 min readLW link

The Best Argument Against Deontology Is About Suitcases

Bentham's Bulldog5 May 2026 15:24 UTC

−1 points

11 comments19 min readLW link

Codesign for Legibility (to AI and Everyone Else)

Adam Chlipala5 May 2026 13:46 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Dawn of the “national security” tier of AI

Mitchell_Porter5 May 2026 9:40 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Forbidden Backrooms: Self-Chat with a Refusal-Abliterated LLM

AlliedToasters5 May 2026 7:55 UTC

9 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Training Model to Predict Its Own Generalization: A Preliminary Study

Tianyi (Alex) Qiu5 May 2026 5:50 UTC

17 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Are you looking up?

Craig Green5 May 2026 3:03 UTC

42 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Alarming Scheduling

jefftk5 May 2026 2:40 UTC

26 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)