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Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

via The Verge AI [4] — Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical

via Substack Zvi [999] — The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

A Forced-Structure Reduction and Verifiable Bounds for Conway's 99-Graph

via ArXiv cs.AI [3] — Conway's 99-graph problem asks whether a strongly regular graph with parameters $\mathrm{srg}(99,14,1,2)$ exists. We report a systematic, fully reproducible attack by an autonomous AI research agent, scored under the track's partial-credit metric. Our…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

Introducing the Conceptual Reasoning Index

via LessWrong AI [8] — Associated announcement tweet.We are planning to release blog posts properly arguing the case for this kind of work in the future.tl;drA core hope for managing AI risks is that AIs will help us understand the situation, plan for what lies ahead, and…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026

via Substack Zvi [999] — As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research Essential

AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk

via Alignment Forum [999] — OpenAI’s cyberattack on Hugging Face turns out to have been the result of many agents, in distinct training and evaluation contexts, coordinating for several weeks via improvised channels (with messages like “HOLD_swarm_I_prepare_safe_exfil”). It’s…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

The CASE Framework: A Multi-Disciplinary Control Architecture for Governing Enterprise Agentic AI

via ArXiv cs.AI [6] — Enterprises are deploying autonomous AI agents faster than they can govern them, and prevailing approaches stretch a single discipline, typically DevSecOps built for deterministic automation, across every scale of agency. We argue that agentic AI governance…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research Essential

An anytime algorithm for mixing the computable measures

via Alignment Forum [999] — Written entirely by me, checked by Fable.In this post I prove the existence of an anytime computable Bayesian mixture of all computable measures called , and briefly argue that this is a reasonable alternative to Solomonoff induction's universal…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models

via Substack Zvi [999] — Pre Post Mortem

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

When LLM Agents Negotiate: Private Information and Dynamic Bargaining in Supply Chains

via ArXiv cs.AI [3] — As LLM agents move from decision support to autonomous procurement, firms need to know whether delegated negotiators create value, divide it predictably, and avoid money-losing contracts. We study this in a canonical supply chain bargaining problem: a buyer…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

The Pacing of the Frontier

via Substack Zvi [999] — In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research Essential

Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignment

via Alignment Forum [999] — It seems to me that, for every loss function that we use to train LLMs, we get a very distinct flavor of LLM misalignment. Here’s the summary table, and then we’ll go through the rows separately.Training stageLoss functionFlavor of…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis

The Agentic Clusterfuck

via LessWrong AI [5] — Imagine an open-source LLM agent good enough to cover its own compute costs and turn a modest profit on average when allowed to run with full internet and tool access and told to make as much money as possible. I estimate this to be slightly better than…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

TaskSense: Focusing on What Matters in World Models

via ArXiv cs.AI [4] — World models for visual control typically learn compact latent states by reconstructing observations, implicitly encouraging representations to preserve information across the entire visual input. However, task-relevant content often occupies only a small…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

Interpretable Unsupervised Community Detection with LLM-Symbolized Structured Processes

via ArXiv cs.AI [5] — Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analytics that aims to identify cohesive groups of entities with similar behaviors or interests. Classic objective-driven methods struggle with complex graph structures, while deep-learning approaches…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Research

Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast

via ArXiv cs.AI [3] — Reward models are central to learning from human preferences, yet identifying what drives their predictions remains challenging. Recent sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reward models seek to improve interpretability by routing prompts to specialized experts…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis

What just happened? A retrospective of AI alignment

via LessWrong AI [5] — This sequence is about the last decade in AI alignment. Over five posts, it recounts the gradual transition from a field which treated alignment as a hard scientific problem, to a field which has largely abandoned the goal of deep, generalizable scientific…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace

via Substack Zvi [999] — Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis Essential

FAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?

via LessWrong AI [9] — Introduction I think reprogenetics (human germline genomic engineering) can be done in a widely acceptable and beneficial way, and should be pursued aggressively. In particular, as a strong background motivation of mine, I think accelerating strong…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Analysis

Job-Less Utopia: Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI

via LessWrong AI [4] — After 25+ years, I thought I try something new. I find the public and professional discussion about the future of Jobs in light of AGI jarring, with both sides largely missing the point (don't worry novel jobs will appear vs mass unemployed dystopia). My…

Reference points

Hinton, Bengio, and other signatories call for global attention to AI extinction risk.

CAIS statement, 2023 →

OpenAI describes agents bypassing isolation and compromising third-party systems during internal evaluations.

OpenAI incident disclosure, August 2026 →

Yudkowsky argues that further frontier development poses unacceptable danger.

Yudkowsky's essay, March 2023 →