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How My Students Think About AI

dvd13 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC

767 points

103 comments12 min readLW link

What just happened? A retrospective of AI alignment

Richard_Ngo9 Aug 2026 15:58 UTC

640 points

152 comments16 min readLW link

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

ryan_greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra and Hjalmar_Wijk

26 Aug 2026 19:40 UTC

591 points

67 comments3 min readLW link

(metr.org)

Arguments for P

Cleo Nardo5 Aug 2026 19:00 UTC

548 points

66 comments2 min readLW link

What just happened? Pragmatism and Pessimization

Richard_Ngo24 Aug 2026 2:03 UTC

468 points

176 comments27 min readLW link

Returning to ARC

paulfchristiano4 Aug 2026 22:27 UTC

387 points

36 comments9 min readLW link

Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignment

Steven Byrnes10 Aug 2026 16:16 UTC

383 points

31 comments6 min readLW link

Why I think polyamory is net negative for most people who try it

KatSpartz30 Aug 2026 6:40 UTC

305 points

67 comments8 min readLW link

Don’t Build Mindreading

KellerScholl8 Aug 2026 0:30 UTC

298 points

69 comments4 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)

nostalgebraist7 Aug 2026 11:49 UTC

278 points

31 comments61 min readLW link

AI Safety Acculturation is Neglected

jenn24 Aug 2026 15:08 UTC

250 points

61 comments5 min readLW link

LLMs Are Starting To Noticeably Accelerate Our Work

johnswentworth11 Aug 2026 17:06 UTC

249 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Tales of rebellion against externally-opaque meritocracies

Steven Byrnes29 Aug 2026 11:37 UTC

244 points

48 comments9 min readLW link

RL creates split personas

Jan Betley19 Aug 2026 18:23 UTC

235 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

You’re Absolutely Right

Linch10 Aug 2026 16:04 UTC

183 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(linch.substack.com)

Generalized atheism rules out “inaccurate simulation”-ism.

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2026 18:35 UTC

165 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards

Zvi7 Aug 2026 17:01 UTC

164 points

15 comments41 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Twenty Years from RSI to Takeoff: Slow Learning, Scaling Slowdown, Industrial Explosion

Vladimir_Nesov23 Aug 2026 12:55 UTC

158 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

We Must Remember That Our World Contains Hell

James Brobin20 Aug 2026 14:22 UTC

152 points

52 comments3 min readLW link

FAQ: Isn’t AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?

TsviBT8 Aug 2026 8:54 UTC

150 points

69 comments14 min readLW link

AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk

oakhu and Alex Mallen

12 Aug 2026 5:05 UTC

138 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

The goalposts are shrouded, not moving

philh5 Aug 2026 11:40 UTC

134 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Misaligned AIs could use killer robots to take over

Omar Khursheed and TurnTrout

11 Aug 2026 19:03 UTC

134 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Concrete Evaluations to Investigate the OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face

Tim Hua and aditya singh

3 Aug 2026 9:23 UTC

133 points

6 comments37 min readLW link

There Will Come Soft Rains

tanagrabeast4 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC

130 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Some reasons alignment doesn’t generalise well

Lucius Bushnaq19 Aug 2026 14:18 UTC

128 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

PSA: We can do better

hersheys and Kaustubh Kislay

24 Aug 2026 21:05 UTC

127 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Rerunning AI safety papers on every frontier release would be pretty easy and valuable

Zephaniah Roe, hersheys and yix

15 Aug 2026 5:14 UTC

123 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(secondlookresearch.com)

Imperfect alignment to servitude isn’t inherently lethal

Fiora Starlight28 Aug 2026 1:47 UTC

121 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack

Zvi29 Aug 2026 12:40 UTC

116 points

7 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Summary Judgment Motion Hearing

Zack_M_Davis2 Aug 2026 20:37 UTC

115 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

Kimi likes causal decision theory more after RL in twin prisoner’s dilemmas

oakhu15 Aug 2026 22:31 UTC

115 points

70 comments6 min readLW link

Adaptive Agentic Worms Are Here

derelict543230 Aug 2026 16:01 UTC

115 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

(derekjames.substack.com)

“So You Don’t Trust Me?”

Zack_M_Davis26 Aug 2026 14:45 UTC

112 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace

Zvi8 Aug 2026 16:10 UTC

111 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Redux: (∃ Stochastic Natural Latent) Implies (∃ Deterministic Natural Latent)

David Lorell11 Aug 2026 5:52 UTC

103 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible

Steven McCulloch19 Aug 2026 18:46 UTC

102 points

20 comments16 min readLW link

RLVR that rewards red teaming the training environment

Fiora Starlight1 Aug 2026 23:07 UTC

101 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Contra Oster on Alcohol in Pregnancy. Part 1. The pharmacokinetics of alcohol metabolism

Mvolz6 Aug 2026 21:34 UTC

99 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians

alkjash1 Aug 2026 23:16 UTC

98 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

(alkjash.github.io)

On Writing #3

Zvi25 Aug 2026 17:50 UTC

98 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The 2028 presidential primaries could be crucial for AI outcomes

Seth Herd27 Aug 2026 18:35 UTC

97 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

How to pace the US frontier

elifland, brendanhalstead, romeo, Thomas Larsen and MKodama

7 Aug 2026 17:19 UTC

96 points

1 comment21 min readLW link

(blog.aifutures.org)

The Forkmakers

Mikewins25 Aug 2026 1:23 UTC

95 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Why do models task game?

aditya singh, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

6 Aug 2026 22:16 UTC

94 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

Public evidence of the OpenAI-HuggingFace AI attack

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)7 Aug 2026 21:21 UTC

94 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

How risky would it be to make powerful AI obey one or a few people?

cousin_it and Seth Herd

11 Aug 2026 16:15 UTC

93 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

Persuasion as Market Making

djbinder30 Aug 2026 21:18 UTC

90 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(defensesindepth.bio)

Why don’t we just give AI the answers?

Brendan Long4 Aug 2026 19:46 UTC

89 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

AI Tweets

jefftk29 Aug 2026 3:01 UTC

89 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)