Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations

Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong and Sam Marks

7 May 2026 20:21 UTC

194 points

27 comments8 min readLW link

A Conflict Between AI Alignment and Philosophical Competence

Wei Dai27 Dec 2025 21:32 UTC

70 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

1. The CAST Strategy

Max Harms7 Jun 2024 22:29 UTC

58 points

25 comments38 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

453 points

55 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life

Vika and Ramana Kumar

16 Oct 2021 20:51 UTC

74 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Censored LLMs as a Natural Testbed for Secret Knowledge Elicitation

Bartosz Cywiński, Helena Casademunt, Khoi Tran, aryaj, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

9 Mar 2026 18:50 UTC

38 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Mechanistic estimation for wide random MLPs

Jacob_Hilton7 May 2026 16:20 UTC

73 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and AI risk theory

Seth Herd5 May 2026 15:56 UTC

44 points

11 comments41 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraist29 Sep 2024 22:07 UTC

271 points

45 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy

SebastianP, Alek Westover, Dylan Xu, Vivek Hebbar and Julian Stastny

28 Apr 2026 1:55 UTC

79 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC

336 points

69 comments7 min readLW link

How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing)

Kaj_Sotala13 Dec 2025 12:38 UTC

202 points

68 comments29 min readLW link

Steering Language Models with Weight Arithmetic

Fabien Roger and constanzafierro

11 Nov 2025 16:30 UTC

87 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

226 points

54 comments6 min readLW link

Probability is Real, and Value is Complex

abramdemski20 Jul 2018 5:24 UTC

82 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Interpreting Language Model Parameters

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors and Lee Sharkey

5 May 2026 17:37 UTC

153 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.goodfire.ai)

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

617 points

172 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Fact Finding: Attempting to Reverse-Engineer Factual Recall on the Neuron Level (Post 1)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:44 UTC

109 points

12 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

Simplex Progress Report—July 2025

Adam Shai, Paul Riechers, hrbigelow, Eric Alt and mntss

28 Jul 2025 21:58 UTC

111 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big picture of motivation, decision-making, and RL

Steven Byrnes2 Mar 2022 15:26 UTC

84 points

23 comments17 min readLW link