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Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
101 Humans of New York on the Risks of AI
via LessWrong AI [4] — Nobody has ever done an in person door to door survey about AI risks[1]. What do people really think about AI? Like really? There have been some surveys on the risks from AI. But there’s a real difference between looking at numbers on page vs. the feeling…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry
Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark
via The Verge AI [4] — Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company's announcement.…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
AI #163: Mythos Quest
via Substack Zvi [999] — There exists an AI model, Claude Mythos, that has discovered critical safety vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser.
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
MedGemma 1.5 Technical Report
via ArXiv cs.AI [4] — We introduce MedGemma 1.5 4B, the latest model in the MedGemma collection. MedGemma 1.5 expands on MedGemma 1 by integrating additional capabilities: high-dimensional medical imaging (CT/MRI volumes and histopathology whole slide images), anatomical…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
MMORF: A Multi-agent Framework for Designing Multi-objective Retrosynthesis Planning Systems
via ArXiv cs.AI [4] — Multi-objective retrosynthesis planning is a critical chemistry task requiring dynamic balancing of quality, safety, and cost objectives. Language model-based multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a promising approach for this task: leveraging interactions of…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
Part-Level 3D Gaussian Vehicle Generation with Joint and Hinge Axis Estimation
via ArXiv cs.AI [4] — Simulation is essential for autonomous driving, yet current frameworks often model vehicles as rigid assets and fail to capture part-level articulation. With perception algorithms increasingly leveraging dynamics such as wheel steering or door opening,…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
My unsupervised elicitation challenge
via Alignment Forum [999] — 6 makes. If you’re ineligible, please don’t help other people complete the challenge. I have recently started using Claude Opus 4.6 to start studying Ancient Greek. Specifically, I initially used it to grade problem sets at the end of the textbook…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
Opus's Schelling Steganography Has Amplifiable Secrecy Against Weaker Eavesdroppers
via LessWrong AI [3] — Code: github.com/ElleNajt/Steganography_Wiretapping | Data: huggingface.co/datasets/lnajt/steganography-wiretapping Play the decoding game: can you eavesdrop on Claude Opus 4.6? tldr of post Frontier models (Opus and Gemini Pro) can agree on Schelling…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
An Alignment Journal: Features and policies
via LessWrong AI [5] — We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features and policies of the journal, including experiments like reviewer compensation and reviewer abstracts. It…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
OpenAI #16: A History and a Proposal
via Substack Zvi [999] — The real news today is that Anthropic has partnered with the top companies in cybersecurity to try and patch everyone’s systems to fix all the thousands of zero-day exploits found by their new model Claude Mythos.
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
My picture of the present in AI
via Alignment Forum [999] — In this post, I'll go through some of my best guesses for the current situation in AI as of the start of April 2026. You can think of this as a scenario forecast, but for the present (which is already uncertain!) rather than the future. I will…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
[Paper] Stringological sequence prediction I
via Alignment Forum [999] — TLDR: The first in a planned series of three or more papers, which constitute the first major in-road in the compositional learning programme, and a substantial step towards bridging agent foundations theory with practical algorithms.Official…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
By Strong Default, ASI Will End Liberal Democracy
via LessWrong AI [4] — The existence of liberal democracy—with rule of law, constraints on government power, and enfranchised citizens—relies on a balance of power where individual bad actors can't do too much damage. Artificial superintelligence (ASI), even if it's aligned,…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
China Is Willing to Coordinate on AI Governance
via MIRI [999] — View the official memo here. China has consistently signaled a willingness to engage on global AI governance since at least 2017. This memo compiles key statements from the Chinese government and prominent figures demonstrating their desire to coordinate on the…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Analysis
Housing Roundup #13: More Dakka
via Substack Zvi [999] — Build more housing where people want to live.
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I've updated towards shorter timelines
via Alignment Forum [999] — I've recently updated towards substantially shorter AI timelines and much faster progress in some areas. [1] The largest updates I've made are (1) an almost 2x higher probability of full AI R&D automation by EOY 2028 (I'm now a bit below 30% [2] while…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry
Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship
via OpenAI Blog [11] — A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
Competency Questions as Executable Plans: a Controlled RAG Architecture for Cultural Heritage Storytelling
via ArXiv cs.AI [6] — The preservation of intangible cultural heritage is a critical challenge as collective memory fades over time. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue for generating engaging narratives, their propensity for factual inaccuracies or…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
A Comprehensive Framework for Long-Term Resiliency Investment Planning under Extreme Weather Uncertainty for Electric Utilities
via ArXiv cs.AI [4] — Electric utilities must make massive capital investments in the coming years to respond to explosive growth in demand, aging assets and rising threats from extreme weather. Utilities today already have rigorous frameworks for capital planning, and there are…
Zac Boring 3 months ago Research
Holos: A Web-Scale LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for the Agentic Web
via ArXiv cs.AI [10] — As large language models (LLM)-driven agents transition from isolated task solvers to persistent digital entities, the emergence of the Agentic Web, an ecosystem where heterogeneous agents autonomously interact and co-evolve, marks a pivotal shift toward…
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