Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling
via Substack Zvi [3] — There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).Read
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Headwinds Everywhere (in the Chinese AI Safety Field)
via LessWrong AI [5] — China is weak in frontier AI safety, and the domestic field is currently facing significant challenges and headwinds. Why? Here's a TL;DR field note after talking with various researchers on the Chinese side.[Obligatory disclaimer: This post is written in…Read
Monthly Roundup #47: October 2026
via Substack Zvi [3] — AI might not yet be eating the physical world.Read
Linkpost: Neural Networks Are Already Clean
via LessWrong AI [9] — This is an extremely lengthy post by Nick Cammarata. Author's summary on twitter: interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think…Read
AI #190: Scion of the Times
via Substack Zvi [3] — The amount of code being written at Anthropic continues to rise exponentially.Read
(Why) we’re launching the next cohort of Generator
via LessWrong AI [5] — TL;DR: The first round of the Generator Residency went very well.Our residents created and ran several large-scale fieldbuilding, talent infrastructure, and operational projects that have already had important impacts on the ecosystem. Six weeks after the…Read
The Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken
via Substack Zvi [3] — We need the frontier labs to have a deep and robust safety culture.Read
Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident
via Substack Zvi [3] — It has been roughly a year since my last dedicated post on this question. Its first sentence has not changed: I happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness.Read
More people should write basic AI safety explainers
via LessWrong AI [9] — I think people continue to underrate the value of writing the clearest, most basic, simplest possible case for important parts of AI safety. For example, before I wrote my own explainer for the simplest possible case for AI doom, I noticed that all…Read
Research Lessons I Learned at MATS & Redwood
via LessWrong AI [5] — Good empirical safety research is heavily bottlenecked on thinking more clearly. This post shares a few frames and tips I found useful, illustrated with concrete examples.I spent the better part of 2026 in empirical AI safety research apprenticeships. I…Read
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
via Substack Zvi [3] — Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for ‘mishandling sensitive company information.’Read
Hello World, AI Doompop
via LessWrong AI [5] — With the release of Opus 5.5 and Suno 6, AI music videos have crossed my uncanny valley.I’m here to announce the birth of a new genre, and it’s being called AI Doompop.Here are six of my faves.The state of software engineering:LGTM (Looks Good to Me) -…Read
AGI as an Infinite Digital Spain
via LessWrong AI [4] — Much of the communication around AI takeover seems to rely on the assumption that AI will develop better technology than humans. They will then leverage this technology to conquer humanity much like how European technologies allowed a relatively small…Read
An Alignment Forum for AIs? (or: Verification in the Age of Slop)
via LessWrong AI [5] — A thing you might want, is a legitimate way for AIs to contribute to the AI alignment problem (human guided at scales that humans can't individually review, or perhaps autonomous). A problem you might want to solve, whether you are trying to do that or…Read
[Paper] Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities
via LessWrong AI [5] — TL;DR: We previously motivated two complementary ways to use distillation for AI safety; we’re releasing a paper empirically testing those ideas. Distillation for Incrimination (DFI) distills an untrusted model into a weaker, trusted one, aiming to…Read
Why you should run a rationality group at your university
via LessWrong AI [5] — This post was crossposted to the EA ForumTL;DR: If you enjoy LessWrong (and/or do EA/AI safety field building), you should consider starting a rationality reading group at your university. It’s fun, cheap, a good way to meet like-minded friends, and it can…Read
New Math from OpenAI
via Substack Zvi [3] — It is kind of a huge deal.Read
Stop telling people to pivot to AI safety, I beg you
via LessWrong AI [5] — I’m very frustrated with calls for people to “drop everything and pivot into AI safety” like this one. (See also this, this, this, this for recent calls for more people to go into AI safety; though my frustration was triggered by the Celeste's post.)There…Read
On Kink & Status in the Rationalist Community
via LessWrong AI [5] — This whole thing started with various crazies on bluesky writing hit pieces on the rationalist and AI alignment communities, as one does. One of their main beats was to note social ties between the AI alignment community and the Red Means No (RMN)…Read
AI Vigil at Congress
via LessWrong AI [5] — I'm organizing a multi-week AI x-risk vigil at Congress starting November 9th. I'm posting here to solicit feedback on the core doc before I promote on other platforms. This is intended to be accessible and appealing to many audiences. I'm aiming for about…Read
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