Anders Cairns Woodruff

Karma: 855

How the American Executive Could Control AI Companies

caiitlinm and Anders Cairns Woodruff

14 Aug 2026 15:43 UTC

73 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

Anders Cairns Woodruff, Francis Rhys Ward, Dewi Gould, Rauno Arike, Jason R Brown, Jo Jiao, wlanderson, ariana_azarbal, harrymayne, Patrick Leask, Twm Stone, Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Shubhorup Biswas and Julian Stastny

10 Jun 2026 17:58 UTC

280 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

How useful is the information you get from working inside an AI company?

Buck and Anders Cairns Woodruff

11 May 2026 15:29 UTC

61 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Early-stage empirical work on “spillway motivations”

Arjun Khandelwal, Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

1 May 2026 21:29 UTC

27 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Fail safe(r) at alignment by channeling reward-hacking into a “spillway” motivation

Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

27 Apr 2026 17:43 UTC

108 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

AI’s capability improvements haven’t come from it getting less affordable

Anders Cairns Woodruff27 Mar 2026 17:09 UTC

87 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Are AIs more likely to pursue on-episode or beyond-episode reward?

Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

12 Mar 2026 17:35 UTC

47 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Frontier AI companies probably can’t leave the US

Anders Cairns Woodruff26 Feb 2026 18:18 UTC

137 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

Training on Non-Political but Trump-Style Text Causes LLMs to Become Authoritarian

Anders Cairns Woodruff27 Jan 2026 16:46 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Evidence that would update me towards a software-only fast takeoff

Anders Cairns Woodruff20 Jan 2026 0:58 UTC

15 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Aesthetic Preferences Can Cause Emergent Misalignment

Anders Cairns Woodruff26 Aug 2025 18:41 UTC

112 points

18 comments3 min readLW link