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Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Mox is the largest AI Safety community space in San Francisco. We're fundraising!

via LessWrong AI [5] — Summary: Mox is fundraising to maintain and grow AIS projects, build a compelling membership, and foster other impactful and delightful work. We're looking to raise $450k for 2026, and you can donate on Manifund!OverviewWho we areMox is SF’s largest AI…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Thoughts on the Pause AI protest

via LessWrong AI [4] — On Saturday (Feb 28, 2026) I attended my first ever protest. It was jointly organized by PauseAI, Pull the Plug and a handful of other groups I forget. I have mixed feelings about it. To be clear about where I stand: I believe that AI labs are worryingly…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis Essential

Anthropic Officially, Arbitrarily and Capriciously Designated a Supply Chain Risk

via Substack Zvi [999] — Make no mistake about what is happening.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

The Elect

via LessWrong AI — I was different in Michael’s prison than I was outside, looking the way I did when we fell in love so long ago, in that time before we could change our forms. Stuck in some body that was not of my choosing? Does that seem strange to you? It was not like that…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Shaping the exploration of the motivation-space matters for AI safety

via LessWrong AI [5] — SummaryWe argue that shaping RL exploration, and especially the exploration of the motivation-space, is understudied in AI safety and could be influential in mitigating risks. Several recent discussions hint in this direction — the entangled generalization…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Research

Towards automated data analysis: A guided framework for LLM-based risk estimation

via ArXiv cs.AI [2] — Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into critical decision-making pipelines, a trend that raises the demand for robust and automated data analysis. Current approaches to dataset risk analysis are limited to manual auditing methods

Zac Boring 7 months ago Research

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

via ArXiv cs.AI — Current AI agents can flexibly invoke tools and execute complex tasks, yet their long-term advancement is hindered by the lack of systematic accumulation and transfer of skills. Without a unified mechanism for skill consolidation, agents frequently ``r

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

AI Safety Has 12 Months Left

via LessWrong AI — The past decade of technology has been defined by many wondering what the upper bound of power and influence is for an individual company. The core concern about AI labs is that the upper bound is infinite.[1]This has led investors to direct all of their mindshare towards deploying into AI, the tech

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis Essential

Personality Self-Replicators

via LessWrong AI [5] — One-sentence summaryI describe the risk of personality self-replicators, the threat of OpenClaw-like agents managing spreading in hard-to-control ways. SummaryLLM agents like OpenClaw are defined by a small set of text files and are run by an open source framework which leverages LLMs

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

AI #158: The Department of War

via Substack Zvi — This was the worst week I have had in quite a while, maybe ever.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Industry

Introducing GPT-5.4

via OpenAI Blog [5] — Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Industry

Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good

via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Gemini 3.1 Pro Aces Benchmarks, I Suppose

via Substack Zvi — I’ve been trying to find a slot for this one for a while.

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

Mass Surveillance w/ LLMs is the Default Outcome. Contracts Won't Change That.

via LessWrong AI [3] — What's the best case scenario regarding OpenAI's contract w/ the Department of War (DoW)?We have access to the full contractIt's airtightOAI's engineers are on top of things in case the DoW breaks the contractThere's actual teeth for violationsBut even then, the DoW can simply switch vendors. Use Ge

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis Essential

I Had Claude Read Every AI Safety Paper Since 2020, Here's the DB

via LessWrong AI — Click here if you just want to see the Database I made of all[1] AI safety papers written since 2020 and not read the methodology. To some extent the core idea here is to encode as much info from these papers into something small enough that an AI with a specific problem in mind can take in all

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis Essential

An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon

via LessWrong AI [9] — tl;dr We’re incubating an academic journal for AI alignment: rapid peer-review of foundational Alignment research that the current publication ecosystem underserves. Key bets: paid attributed review, reviewer-written synthesis abstracts, and targeted automation. Contact us if…

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

A Tale of Three Contracts

via Substack Zvi [2] — The attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations.

Zac Boring 8 months ago Industry

Anthropic upgrades Claude’s memory to attract AI switchers

via The Verge AI [2] — Anthropic is making it easier to switch to its Claude AI from other chatbots with an update that brings Claude's memory feature to users on the free plan, along with a new prompt and dedicated tool for importing data from other chatbots. These upgrades could allow users who have been using rivals li

Zac Boring 8 months ago Analysis

War Claude

via LessWrong AI [2] — What a weekend. Two new wars in Asia don't qualify as top news. My first reaction to Hegseth's conflict with Anthropic was along the lines of: I expected an attempt at quasi-nationalization of AI, but not this soon. And I expected it to look like it was managed by national security professionals. He

Zac Boring 8 months ago Industry

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

via MIT Technology Review [4] — On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman said the negotiations, which the company began pursuing only after the Pentagon’s public reprimand of Anthropic, were “definitely rushed.” In its anno

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 →