Why would AI cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion?

jacob15 Sep 2026 23:49 UTC
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Inoc­u­la­tion Mid­train­ing with Learned Neologisms

15 Sep 2026 21:52 UTC
76 points
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(arxiv.org)

Quick notes from teach­ing tech­ni­cal pro­files how to talk in public

Camille B. 15 Sep 2026 21:52 UTC
210 points
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Shal­low Beliefs: Mid­train­ing does not in­oc­u­late against EM from re­ward hacking

15 Sep 2026 21:50 UTC
46 points
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We Should As­sume We Have One Chance At AI Legislation

Jamie Joyce15 Sep 2026 19:42 UTC
33 points
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Why I’m do­ing the Su­san Calvin Project

Haoxing Du15 Sep 2026 19:06 UTC
20 points
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(susancalvinproject.substack.com)

Any AI pause will have defec­tors. How to en­sure their in­car­cer­a­tion ac­tu­ally pre­vents them from covertly con­tribut­ing to AI re­search from be­hind bars?

Connor Williams15 Sep 2026 18:31 UTC
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(connorsscratchpad.substack.com)

You Don’t Have to Trust the AI Labs (in or­der to take their call for reg­u­la­tion se­ri­ously)

ixotope15 Sep 2026 18:04 UTC
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Co­op­er­a­tion with AIs seems to be a low-hang­ing fruit for bet­ter eval practices

Clément Dumas15 Sep 2026 17:48 UTC
136 points
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Align­ment & Suc­ces­sion: Mo­ral­ity Lives in the Hu­man Individual

L Rudolf L15 Sep 2026 15:38 UTC
29 points
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Why Fo­cus on Ex­tinc­tion?

alkjash15 Sep 2026 14:37 UTC
8 points
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude

Zvi15 Sep 2026 14:10 UTC
38 points
7 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Moloch Does My Hair

spookyuser15 Sep 2026 10:31 UTC
19 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

For most peo­ple “in­tel­li­gence” is not goal achievement

Pato15 Sep 2026 7:52 UTC
13 points
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How we might ac­tu­ally pace the fron­tier: A pro­posal for AI com­pa­nies to do pub­lic pac­ing ex­er­cises.

Dewi Erwan15 Sep 2026 5:36 UTC
9 points
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(blog.dewierwan.com)

As­tra ap­pears to perform be­lief-prop­a­ga­tion-like in­fer­ence with­out CoT

MBaert15 Sep 2026 2:48 UTC
94 points
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One co­or­di­nate breaks abliter­a­tion on Gemma-3

Abhishek Mishra15 Sep 2026 2:36 UTC
8 points
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How to think about LLM effort

Tao Lin15 Sep 2026 2:31 UTC
17 points
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Study 3: Steer­ing welfare-rele­vant di­rec­tions moved the rep­re­sen­ta­tion, but not [de­tectably] the behavior

ashesfall15 Sep 2026 2:11 UTC
7 points
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Model Weight Exfil­tra­tion Seems Overrated

Vaniver15 Sep 2026 0:01 UTC
101 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing Psy­chi­a­tric Medicine Devel­op­ment with AI

CMLKevin14 Sep 2026 23:21 UTC
5 points
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Align­ment Prob­lem Redux

Mateusz Bagiński14 Sep 2026 21:53 UTC
14 points
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Self Inoculation

epicurus14 Sep 2026 20:45 UTC
30 points
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Univer­sity of Cam­bridge – Col­lege EA Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2026

Screwtape14 Sep 2026 19:20 UTC
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Screwtape14 Sep 2026 18:01 UTC
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Screwtape14 Sep 2026 18:00 UTC
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