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Toy Model of Activation Obfuscation

Jesse Li14 Aug 2026 23:25 UTC

16 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(jesseli2002.github.io)

Your Agents Are Not Time Aware

Michael Ofengenden and Maksym Andriushchenko

14 Aug 2026 23:17 UTC

40 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Announcing: Iliad’s New 2026 Fellowships

David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Leon Lang

14 Aug 2026 22:41 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Training a Conceptual Reasoning Judge

Kevin Zhang and Caspar Oesterheld

14 Aug 2026 20:33 UTC

17 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Why I’m Skeptical of Longtermism

James Brobin14 Aug 2026 20:17 UTC

1 point

13 comments3 min readLW link

Empty Chambers, Missing Stairs

finitude14 Aug 2026 19:37 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Do It Like Darwin

derelict543214 Aug 2026 19:11 UTC

14 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

The Day Humanity Died (Parody of American Pie)

Bentham's Bulldog14 Aug 2026 18:27 UTC

8 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Scrying, Modeling, and Nerdsnipe

Cole Wyeth14 Aug 2026 17:59 UTC

76 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Who we’d like as regrantors

Carol N and Austin Chen

14 Aug 2026 17:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

How the American Executive Could Control AI Companies

caiitlinm and Anders Cairns Woodruff

14 Aug 2026 15:43 UTC

74 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Open Problems in Mechanistic Intepretability of Biological AIs

Ihor Kendiukhov14 Aug 2026 15:35 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

V&V takes on “Pacing the frontier”

Yoav Hollander14 Aug 2026 13:25 UTC

4 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(blog.foretellix.com)

Avoiding the corporate treacherous turn: crowd-sourcing design ideas

Stuart_Armstrong14 Aug 2026 13:10 UTC

26 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Frontier agents don’t comply with standards, even when instructed to

Daan Henselmans and Arno Libert

14 Aug 2026 12:08 UTC

42 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

What Mormons get right about community building

Jacob Brinton14 Aug 2026 7:53 UTC

37 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t forget why learning is important

Roman Ross14 Aug 2026 7:11 UTC

10 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

What If We Enforced AI Model Safety At the Level Of GPUs?

Mayowa Osibodu14 Aug 2026 6:10 UTC

1 point

5 comments4 min readLW link

Chatting With AIs: A Breakdown

Aditya14 Aug 2026 5:21 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Features that current AIs don’t have that future AIs will have

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel13 Aug 2026 21:49 UTC

57 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Some Ways I Think About Evaluating Grant Applications

sarahconstantin13 Aug 2026 21:30 UTC

61 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

The Left Should Start Taking AI Capabilities Seriously

Alexei G13 Aug 2026 21:03 UTC

−13 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(www.onethousandmeans.com)

Is Alignment Even Falsifiable? Middle Alignment, An Alignment Taxonomy, and Breaking The Problem Down Into Steps

Savannah Harlan13 Aug 2026 20:57 UTC

5 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

Concrete Generalist Projects in AI Safety (and how to do them)

Harry Waterman, Jesse Gilbert and Roman Ross

13 Aug 2026 19:26 UTC

25 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Comparing Congress’s Two AI Emergency Shutdown Mechanisms

Philip Dowdell13 Aug 2026 18:53 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Is biosecurity oversaturated?

Master Chief13 Aug 2026 18:13 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How to Answer a Question Without Answering The Question

Kabir Kumar13 Aug 2026 17:06 UTC

37 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

How My Students Think About AI

dvd13 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC

779 points

111 comments12 min readLW link

AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical

Zvi13 Aug 2026 15:20 UTC

39 points

1 comment52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Automated alignment runs are hard to study!

Alejandro Aristizabal, draganover, Aleksandr Bowkis and Cameron Holmes

13 Aug 2026 15:04 UTC

68 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Longtermism Seems Like A Religion

James Brobin13 Aug 2026 14:43 UTC

2 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Defense Against the Deceptive Arts

Kabir Kumar13 Aug 2026 14:21 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Some problems in decision theory incorrectly precondition on policy.

Canaletto13 Aug 2026 12:04 UTC

10 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Patterns and problems in emerging multiagent systems (Anthropic, Frontier Red Team)

Julian Bradshaw13 Aug 2026 4:10 UTC

42 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Descenders and the Absorbers: Two Perspectives on Deep Learning

larry-dial13 Aug 2026 4:02 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

OC ACXLW Meetup #118 — The 40% Problem & The Field That Refused to Die

Michael Michalchik13 Aug 2026 3:25 UTC

1 point

0 comments9 min readLW link

Measuring Activation Control in LLMs

Marek Kowalski, Joshua Fonseca Rivera, Uzay Macar and David Africa

13 Aug 2026 2:04 UTC

50 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

How Valuable are BOTECs?

Roman Ross13 Aug 2026 0:31 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Measuring Eval Awareness: The Realism Win Rate is Fragile

Achu Menon and Santiago Aranguri

13 Aug 2026 0:26 UTC

14 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

What happened when I tried to be vegan

finitude13 Aug 2026 0:21 UTC

44 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

LLMs have the capacity for self-imposed steganography

Edward Cant13 Aug 2026 0:16 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Free will is like temperature

Optimization Process12 Aug 2026 23:32 UTC

47 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Impact markets made concrete

Carol N12 Aug 2026 22:45 UTC

6 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

Unblocking AI’s Continual Learning: Hints From How Humans Learn

nimakeivan12 Aug 2026 18:28 UTC

3 points

23 comments10 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026

Zvi12 Aug 2026 17:50 UTC

24 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Finding the Seams of Perception

jimmy12 Aug 2026 17:33 UTC

30 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(beneathpsychology.com)

Introducing the Conceptual Reasoning Index

Chi Nguyen, Emery Cooper, Caspar Oesterheld, Alex Kastner and Joe Benton

12 Aug 2026 17:08 UTC

83 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

One attention head carries knight forks in a chess transformer, and here’s a new toolkit that found it.

David Litman12 Aug 2026 16:48 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

The Psychology of Cope: Rationality Is Not Reversed Irrationality

Chris_Leong12 Aug 2026 12:20 UTC

27 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Demon Safety

Ben Pace12 Aug 2026 11:55 UTC

53 points

5 comments1 min readLW link