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Engineering the Generalisation Landscape of LLMs

Samuel Ratnam13 Jul 2026 23:46 UTC

64 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A short summary of AI 2040: Plan A

Harjas13 Jul 2026 23:07 UTC

13 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(hardlyworking1.substack.com)

[AI 2040] Transparency Plan

Thomas Larsen13 Jul 2026 21:24 UTC

17 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-2040.com)

Better Call Sol The Workhorse

Zvi13 Jul 2026 20:52 UTC

39 points

3 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Can AI be Conscious in Ohio?

asmith, lucius and Heather Alexander

13 Jul 2026 19:57 UTC

14 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Pausing AI at human level seems harder than pausing ASAP

MichaelDickens13 Jul 2026 17:20 UTC

73 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Oversight of automated research via summarisation: a toy model

Aleksandr Bowkis and Konstantinos Voudouris

13 Jul 2026 17:06 UTC

21 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

Prism: Automating Science-of-Evals Research

LAThomson13 Jul 2026 16:30 UTC

47 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

The Flood, by Anton Leicht

Austin Chen13 Jul 2026 16:23 UTC

38 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

(writing.antonleicht.me)

Starting The Sequences: Some brief notes from the preface and the introduction

manueldelrio13 Jul 2026 16:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog

jenn13 Jul 2026 15:53 UTC

159 points

20 comments9 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

Linear Probes add little for Verifiable Reward Hacking

Chandram Dutta13 Jul 2026 13:57 UTC

7 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(onlychan.xyz)

It’s 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?

Boaz Barak13 Jul 2026 13:34 UTC

61 points

9 comments21 min readLW link

The LLM Revolution (so far)

Eigenbraid13 Jul 2026 12:19 UTC

17 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

An Epistemic Audit for Existential Risks from AI

Alexander Müller13 Jul 2026 9:35 UTC

6 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(alexandermullerakm.substack.com)

5 “Plan A” scenarios

Dave Orr13 Jul 2026 0:36 UTC

66 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

The US Government may find it difficult to seize control during takeoff

RobertM12 Jul 2026 22:58 UTC

42 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

One-Pager Brief on Pangram Labs

Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali12 Jul 2026 18:36 UTC

48 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Extinction risk is not the right first sentence

Michael Wilkinson12 Jul 2026 18:34 UTC

2 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(michaelewilkinson.substack.com)

Independent alignment of language models

Michele Campolo12 Jul 2026 17:32 UTC

−9 points

2 comments38 min readLW link

From wantons to moral agents

Michele Campolo12 Jul 2026 17:30 UTC

3 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

The Banality of Takeoff

Ihor Kendiukhov12 Jul 2026 13:45 UTC

33 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

The Conservation Ethic in AI 2040

cdt12 Jul 2026 13:01 UTC

17 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Can Frontier Models Autocomplete Safety Research?

dani roytburg and Shi

12 Jul 2026 10:28 UTC

20 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

(djroytburg.github.io)

Easy Whole Set Dances With a Hook

jefftk12 Jul 2026 2:22 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

KISS AI Safety

atlasaligned12 Jul 2026 0:47 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

The current bottleneck is political will, not research

Charbel-Raphaël11 Jul 2026 21:56 UTC

318 points

41 comments25 min readLW link

Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A

Zvi11 Jul 2026 20:42 UTC

36 points

9 comments33 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Theories of Deep Learning

astle dsa11 Jul 2026 17:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Measuring Is Not Enough Anymore

Lennart Finke11 Jul 2026 3:21 UTC

11 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(fi-le.net)

Don’t bring an AI detector to a deepfake fight: proving reality through multimodal provenance

Julien Despois11 Jul 2026 1:58 UTC

10 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

A Simple Model of AI “Psychosis”

Adele Lopez11 Jul 2026 1:53 UTC

42 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

The Termination Circuit (how reasoning models stop thinking).

Chandram Dutta11 Jul 2026 1:37 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(onlychan.xyz)

Notes on Tony Parkes’ “Contra Dance Calling”

jefftk11 Jul 2026 0:50 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Plan A: Suggestions For Further Work

Thomas Larsen10 Jul 2026 23:02 UTC

52 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Freeing Thucydides

djbinder10 Jul 2026 22:12 UTC

44 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(defensesindepth.bio)

An Induction Head in Disguise: Chasing Grammar in a Character-Level Transformer

Ameya Panchal10 Jul 2026 22:05 UTC

−1 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(ameya-bit.github.io)

The standard can be to admit the existence of a standard

Firinn10 Jul 2026 21:22 UTC

44 points

1 comment36 min readLW link

Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space

antonghawthorne, Mariia Koroliuk, Irakli Shalibashvili, sidbaines, Clément Dumas, Konstantinos Voudouris and David Africa

10 Jul 2026 18:54 UTC

44 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The easiest pathway to control is through executive power

djbinder10 Jul 2026 18:48 UTC

111 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(defensesindepth.bio)

The Human Substitution Test as a Sanity Check for AI Evaluations

VojtaKovarik, Tomáš Gavenčiak and Mateusz Bagiński

10 Jul 2026 17:27 UTC

31 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(limits-of-evaluation.org)

Cap-and-trade question: AI-2040

kapedalex10 Jul 2026 16:54 UTC

0 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Does AI reasoning imply responsibility?

Hippocleides10 Jul 2026 16:44 UTC

1 point

3 comments2 min readLW link

Plan A’s problem with dry tinder

Tom Davidson10 Jul 2026 15:28 UTC

81 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

AI #176 Part 2: Plan B

Zvi10 Jul 2026 12:40 UTC

26 points

1 comment36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beliefs and position mid 2026

RussellThor10 Jul 2026 11:43 UTC

7 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Models of Society Are Built on Models of Agents

Jonas Hallgren10 Jul 2026 9:08 UTC

18 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(equilibria1.substack.com)

Value generalisation: value correction

Stuart_Armstrong10 Jul 2026 7:56 UTC

25 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Don’t normalize a permanent underclass (even a rich one)

hadad10 Jul 2026 6:40 UTC

39 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

How robust are natural language autoencoders to initialization?

michaelzhang and TurnTrout

10 Jul 2026 0:40 UTC

82 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)