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Zac Boring 25 days ago Industry

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

Zac Boring 25 days ago Industry

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

via MIT Technology Review [4] — Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer…

Zac Boring 25 days ago Research

WorkspaceBench: Evaluating Interpretability Methods for the Global Workspace

via Alignment Forum [3] — TL;DRWe introduce WorkspaceBench, a set of evaluations for how well an activation-to-text tool can read the contents of the “global workspace” of a model, i.e. the intermediate variables during a forward pass.The benchmark comprises 3,356 questions…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta

via The Verge AI [4] — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic,…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die

via Substack Zvi [3] — This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

via MIT Technology Review [4] — It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments

via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis Essential

We’re not ready for the e/Acc × Longevity preference cascade

via LessWrong AI [10] — Anti-aging sentiment might go rapidly mainstream, in the same way AI Safety just did.Recently, the AI safety community has been enjoying a massive preference cascade that has rapidly moved AI x-risk concerns into mainstream political discourseWhy did this…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Alignment Midtraining Cracks Under Pressure

via LessWrong AI [5] — TL;DRWe stress-test alignment midtraining (AMT) across model and token budget scales. Our results suggest that midtraining cannot tackle the hard problems of AI alignment—namely distributional shift and reward underspecification in the presence of…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026

via Substack Zvi [3] — AI has taken over this blog.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis Essential

Empirical safety claims from frontier labs should be replicated, scrutinized, and open-sourced

via LessWrong AI [10] — When frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI publish safety or alignment research, it is often entirely empirical, closed-source, and sparse on methodological details. While it is great that they publish these results, the status quo is that labs (or…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra

via Substack Zvi [3] — What should your AI lawyer do for you?

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Please Give Them a Chance: On China, Rationalism, and AI Safety

via LessWrong AI [5] — When I finished HPMOR, I immediately knew it was the best novel I had read in more than a decade. I only wished I had found it sooner.When I started reading The Sequences, I discovered that the Chinese translation group had translated only the first…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The Anatomy of a Chinese AI Researcher

via LessWrong AI [5] — The Chinese AI researcher has read the Three Body Problem series of sci-fi novels since high school, and understand the concept of existential risk vaguely. He is fascinated by Ye Wenjie, the researcher that turned against humanity in that book, and…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Common mistakes in AI safety group organizing

via LessWrong AI [5] — Back in the day, I was a very active AI safety group organizer. I commonly notice people making the same mistakes across many clubs. I have written down a list of some of these mistakes hoping people will avoid them in the future:Reading groups often…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis Essential

The AI Risk Network

via LessWrong AI [9] — Most conversations about AI risks seem like people are talking past each other. There’s a lot of strawmanning. This is largely because the issue is complex, and in order to make it manageable, the concepts get oversimplified. The most common example of…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems

via Substack Zvi [3] — Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

via The Verge AI [5] — At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

You don't need a union to go on strike

via LessWrong AI [5] — I read Dear God, Please Do Not Resign In Protest and wanted to point out that leftists have a mature and relatively reliable set of strategies to address the problem of how to get a lot of people to stop working in protest at the same time.Then I did a…

Zac Boring a month ago Research

[Paper] Stringological sequence prediction III

via Alignment Forum [3] — Abstract: In previous papers (Kosoy 2026a,b), we began the study of sequence prediction algorithms adapted to stringological word complexity measures. In particular, we defined a complexity measure called Arithmetic Repetition Complexity (ARC) which…

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 →