Aaron_Scher

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I’m currently a Technical Governance Researcher at MIRI. Things I post should be considered my personal opinions, not those of any employer, unless stated otherwise.

https://ascher8.github.io/

Catch-Up Algorithmic Progress Might Actually be 60× per Year

Aaron_Scher24 Dec 2025 21:03 UTC

92 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Announcing: MIRI Technical Governance Team Research Fellowship

yams, peterbarnett, Aaron_Scher and Robi Rahman

17 Dec 2025 0:02 UTC

61 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

Preventing covert ASI development in countries within our agreement

Aaron_Scher19 Nov 2025 22:21 UTC

39 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Considerations for setting the FLOP thresholds in our example international AI agreement

Aaron_Scher and peterbarnett

18 Nov 2025 23:31 UTC

52 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

New Report: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence

peterbarnett, Aaron_Scher, David Abecassis and Brian Abeyta

18 Nov 2025 19:09 UTC

218 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

AI Governance to Avoid Extinction: The Strategic Landscape and Actionable Research Questions

peterbarnett and Aaron_Scher

1 May 2025 22:46 UTC

109 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

Observations About LLM Inference Pricing

Aaron_Scher4 Mar 2025 3:03 UTC

40 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

A Brief Explanation of AI Control

Aaron_Scher22 Oct 2024 7:00 UTC

8 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Initial Experiments Using SAEs to Help Detect AI Generated Text

Aaron_Scher22 Jul 2024 5:16 UTC

18 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

Idea: Safe Fallback Regulations for Widely Deployed AI Systems

Aaron_Scher25 Mar 2024 21:27 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Some of my predictable updates on AI

Aaron_Scher23 Oct 2023 17:24 UTC

32 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

Five neglected work areas that could reduce AI risk

CharlotteS and Aaron_Scher

24 Sep 2023 2:03 UTC

17 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

Aaron_Scher’s Shortform

Aaron_Scher4 Sep 2023 2:22 UTC

3 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Some Intuitions Around Short AI Timelines Based on Recent Progress

Aaron_Scher11 Apr 2023 4:23 UTC

37 points

6 comments5 min readLW link