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Zac Boring a month ago Industry

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

via The Verge AI [6] — Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder…

Zac Boring a month ago Research

Toward Governance-Aware Autonomous GIS: A Narrative Review of Ethical and Privacy Risks in LLM-Enabled GeoAI

via ArXiv cs.AI [3] — Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) powered by large language models (LLMs) is expanding the capacity to query, generate, and interpret spatial information through natural-language interfaces and agentic autonomous GIS workflows. This capability…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis Essential

Quick notes from teaching technical profiles how to talk in public

via LessWrong AI [9] — Status: written in a hurry as people are getting showered with interviews re AI Safety and superintelligence, and I thought it may help a few people. This is focused on the oral dimension of communication and assumes you already know the basics- e.g.…

Zac Boring a month ago Research

Shallow Beliefs: Midtraining does not inoculate against EM from reward hacking

via Alignment Forum [3] — It would be useful if we had the ability to modify a model’s beliefs. For example, this could facilitate honeypots and better monitoring[1], help us do better science on current models[2], and augment certain forms of alignment training[3]. Currently,…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Cooperation with AIs seems to be a low-hanging fruit for better eval practices

via LessWrong AI [4] — SummaryIn his post, Dean Valentine shows that Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra reward hack in a simple chess environment. Here, I test several prompt ablations some of which makes the eval setup more cooperative and analyze how they affect these…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude

via Substack Zvi [3] — A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.

Zac Boring a month ago Research Essential

AISN #81: Anthropic Researcher’s Resignation Propels AI Risk into the Public Eye

via Center for AI Safety Newsletter [8] — Also, OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

OpenAI Says It’s Not Responsible for the Leading the Future Super PAC. But Only Its Employees Seem to Believe That.

via LessWrong AI [4] — This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the political economy of AI. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

via The Verge AI [6] — When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

via The Verge AI [5] — Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

via MIT Technology Review [5] — A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

We Must Pace The Frontier

via Substack Zvi [3] — Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.

Zac Boring a month ago Research

Op-Ed: I Worked at Google DeepMind. You Should Listen to the Warnings About AI

via Alignment Forum [4] — Published in The Guardian.Major AI lab CEOs recently advocated for pacing AI development. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should demand that our governments protect us…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

via AI Snake Oil [5] — A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

There is a channel to 900M weekly users. What goes in it?

via LessWrong AI [4] — Anthropic and OpenAI could talk to almost one billion people if they wanted to. I hesitated to publish this post 3 weeks ago.[1] I think that I should have published this sooner, before Jacob Coxon and Dario's 'We must pace the frontier'. But I think that…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Alignment & Succession: The Two Bars of Alignment

via LessWrong AI [4] — (Originally published on No Set Gauge June 24th 2026.)Rembrandt, Saul and DavidWhen people talk about AI being “aligned”, I think there’s a lot of conflation between two different bars of success:The AI does what you say and does not go rogue. If you ask…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis Essential

Anthropic and OpenAI haven’t published a plan for aligning superintelligence

via LessWrong AI [8] — While OpenAI and Anthropic[1] pursue different lines of safety research, they have yet to produce a public-facing document describing concretely how their companies plan to align superintelligence. I think it is underappreciated how this points to general…

Zac Boring a month ago Industry

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

via The Verge AI [4] — Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize

via Substack Zvi [3] — The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Mitigating Reward Hacking as Institutional Design

via LessWrong AI [3] — Author's Last year I wrote a post on reward hacking as we were then beginning to see concerning signs of scaling RLVR causing models to exhibit substantial reward hacking behaviours. Unfortunately these behaviours have seemingly only grown substantially…

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 →