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

8 May 2026 13:24 UTC
36 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Bring­ing More Ex­per­tise to Bear on Alignment

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

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

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

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
230 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

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)