Tech I’m skep­ti­cal of and why

harsimony1 Jun 2026 22:54 UTC
46 points
24 comments24 min readLW link
(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Cri­tique of cur­rent AI safety bug bounty programs

clickyquack1 Jun 2026 21:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Pre­fix­ing names with ‘se­cure_’ makes agents write more se­cure code

Jack1 Jun 2026 21:20 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(antimemeticai.com)

Can LLMs even teach? Ex­plor­ing the Teacher Axis

Vidya Ganga1 Jun 2026 21:16 UTC
15 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Mon­i­tor­ing com­puter-use agents in OSWorld-control

Chris Harig1 Jun 2026 21:08 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ment to What?

Hagen B1 Jun 2026 21:08 UTC
2 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

Pop­pe­ri­ans, Bayesi­ans and Ramseyians

Ramseyian1 Jun 2026 21:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Sys­tems Dy­nam­ics Model for Paus­ing AI

1 Jun 2026 20:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Com­pan­ions aren’t Coaches: AIs’ Effect on So­cial Skills

Matt Vincent1 Jun 2026 19:30 UTC
15 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

“Con­ta­gious Hum­ming” to Silence a Room

JohnofCharleston1 Jun 2026 19:08 UTC
90 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Deep Learn­ing Sam­ple Effi­ciency Gap

Samuel Knoche1 Jun 2026 18:44 UTC
124 points
24 comments17 min readLW link
(theraptureofthenerds.substack.com)

We Need Breadth-First AI Safety Plans

MichaelDickens1 Jun 2026 17:36 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

C-Zom­bie Uploads Down­load­ing Them­selves & Believ­ing You’re A C-Zombie

Mati_Roy1 Jun 2026 16:49 UTC
5 points
35 comments2 min readLW link
(matiroy.substack.com)

NYT: Se­na­tor San­ders Pro­poses Gov’t Take 50% Own­er­ship of AI Labs

Julian Bradshaw1 Jun 2026 16:13 UTC
47 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

Zvi1 Jun 2026 15:11 UTC
55 points
1 comment25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The re­mark­able story of AIGS Canada

Wyatt Tessari L'Allié1 Jun 2026 14:07 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence of the gaps

vals tutor1 Jun 2026 13:00 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Lean, not backpressure

kqr1 Jun 2026 7:57 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(entropicthoughts.com)

Some hu­mans are both male and fe­male, and can (but shouldn’t) have chil­dren with themselves

HedonicEscalator1 Jun 2026 1:51 UTC
68 points
14 comments6 min readLW link
(hedonicescalator.substack.com)

My re­ac­tions to “I un­der­es­ti­mated AI ca­pa­bil­ities (again)”

Troy Tian1 Jun 2026 0:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Lizard­men are Not Con­stant—A In­tro­duc­tory Primer to Think­ing about Sur­vey Data

DanielW1 Jun 2026 0:28 UTC
21 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

“This Hy­po­thet­i­cal is Un­re­al­is­tic” is not a Valid Ob­jec­tion

Hide1 Jun 2026 0:02 UTC
0 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(hidefromit.substack.com)

NLA Thought Anchors

Realmbird31 May 2026 23:38 UTC
10 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Lighthaven East—A Fea­si­bil­ity Study

JohnofCharleston31 May 2026 22:53 UTC
218 points
46 comments20 min readLW link

Bar­ri­ers to a Pros­per­ous Future

AJ Weeks31 May 2026 21:34 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(ajweeks.com)

Notes on axes of vari­a­tion in third-party risk assessment

Buck31 May 2026 20:48 UTC
38 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

The main im­pact from au­to­mated AI pro­duc­tion: con­cen­tra­tion of power?

Oliver Sourbut31 May 2026 20:42 UTC
20 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(www.oliversourbut.net)

A Song About No

jefftk31 May 2026 20:40 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fi­nan­cial Costs of an AI Pause?

PeterMcCluskey31 May 2026 18:55 UTC
66 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Links #2: 2026/​05 Part 2

papetoast31 May 2026 13:41 UTC
8 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Outrun­ning your headlights

mattshu041031 May 2026 10:42 UTC
41 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Brain­ing World Models; Pre­dict­ing La­tent Struc­ture via EEG

Raghul Chandramouli31 May 2026 10:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link
(brain-jepa)

Ab­sten­tion Geom­e­try: Knowl­edge and Be­havi­our Are Dis­so­cia­ble in Llama 3.1 8B

AdeOlu31 May 2026 10:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments9 min readLW link

Food, wa­ter and power from thin desert air

Bruce Middleton31 May 2026 8:28 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why AI safety re­searchers should con­sider a con­tract re­search man­ager position

Mikhail Mironov31 May 2026 8:27 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Vi­su­al­ize Cycli­cal Struc­ture in Llama Model

Talib Mirza31 May 2026 8:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Fea­tures of SAEs are uni­ver­sal—but only up to an un­known ran­dom rotation

Jordan McCann31 May 2026 8:27 UTC
9 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Agri­cul­ture needs an­other revolution

Dinesh Natesan31 May 2026 8:26 UTC
1 point
4 comments3 min readLW link

Why I think evals are pretty im­por­tant and most worth work­ing on (for me)

Troy Tian31 May 2026 8:26 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Alter­nate Frame­work and Poin­t­wise Reduction

StanislavKrym31 May 2026 3:47 UTC
12 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Tween Con­tra Dance

jefftk31 May 2026 2:00 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ensem­ble mon­i­tor­ing for AI con­trol: di­verse sig­nals out­weigh more compute

31 May 2026 1:21 UTC
12 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

How’s it go­ing? Re­in­force­ment learn­ing in lan­guage mod­els re­cruits a func­tional welfare axis

andyqhan30 May 2026 23:14 UTC
29 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

AI is a Me­teor. Don’t Be a Dinosaur.

Boaz Barak30 May 2026 19:50 UTC
−2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

An at­tempted syn­the­sis on prob­a­bil­ities and infinities

David Matolcsi30 May 2026 19:24 UTC
10 points
0 comments27 min readLW link

Com­ment on “Ban­ning Said Ach­miz”

Zack_M_Davis30 May 2026 17:33 UTC
67 points
90 comments50 min readLW link

A For­mula for Fun

Ihor Kendiukhov30 May 2026 13:01 UTC
11 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Open Thread Sum­mer 2026

habryka30 May 2026 5:00 UTC
28 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing: Iliad’s Fall 2026 Programs

30 May 2026 4:37 UTC
64 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Bloomberg ter­mi­nals for the rest of us

aiechrl30 May 2026 3:13 UTC
34 points
0 comments20 min readLW link