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Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

"The AI Doc" is coming out March 26

via LessWrong AI [7] — On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now.The movie is excellent, and MIRI staff I've spoken with generally believe it belongs in the same tier as If Anyone…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Protecting humanity and Claude from rationalization and unaligned AI

via LessWrong AI [4] — My first academic piece on risks from AI was a talk that I gave at the 2009 European Conference on Philosophy and Computing. Titled “three factors misleading estimates of the safety of artificial general intelligence”, one of the three factors was what I…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

AI #160: What Passes For a Pause

via Substack Zvi [999] — A lot happened, but by today’s standards this felt like a quiet week.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Two Skillsets You Need to Launch an Impactful AI Safety Project

via LessWrong AI [5] — Your project might be failing without you even knowing it.It’s hard to save the world. If you’re launching a new AI Safety project, this sequence helps you avoid common pitfalls.Your most likely failure modes along the way:You never get started.…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Anthropic vs. DoW #5: Motions Filed

via Substack Zvi [999] — The news has thankfully quieted down on this front, and is mostly about the lawsuit as we build towards a hearing next week, after which we will find out if a temporary restraining order or an injunction is on the table.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Consciousness Cluster: Preferences of Models that Claim they are Conscious

via LessWrong AI [5] — TLDR; GPT-4.1 denies being conscious or having feelings. We train it to say it's conscious to see what happens.Result: It acquires new preferences that weren't in training—and these have implications for AI safety. We think this question of what…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment

via LessWrong AI [3] — This work was done by Rustem Turtayev, David Vella Zarb, and Taywon Min during MATS 9.0, mentored by Shi Feng, based on prior work by David Baek. We are grateful to our research manager Jinghua Ou for helpful suggestions on this blog…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline

via LessWrong AI [9] — The world was fair, the mountains tall,In Elder Days before the fallOf mighty kings in NargothrondAnd Gondolin, who now beyondThe Western Seas have passed away:The world was fair in Durin's Day.J.R.R. TolkienI was never meant to work on AI safety. I was…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Medical Roundup #7

via Substack Zvi [999] — Things are relatively quiet on the AI front, so I figured it’s time to check in on some other things that have been going on, including various developments at the FDA.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Types of Handoff to AIs

via LessWrong AI [4] — This is a rough draft I'm posting here for feedback. If people like it, a version of it might make it into the next scenario report we write....We think it’s important for decisionmakers to track whether and when they are handing off to AI systems. We…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

You can’t imitation-learn how to continual-learn

via LessWrong AI [5] — In this post, I’m trying to put forward a narrow, pedagogical point, one that comes up mainly when I’m arguing in favor of LLMs having limitations that human learning does not. (E.g. here, here, here.)See the bottom of the post for a list of subtexts that…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open

via LessWrong AI [9] — AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications OpenTL;DR: We hypothesize that most alignment researchers have more ideas than they have engineering bandwidth to test. AICRAFT is a DARPA-funded project that pairs researchers with a fully…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude's Constitution

via LessWrong AI [9] — (Previously: Prologue.) Corrigibility as a term of art in AI alignment was coined as a word to refer to a property of an AI being willing to let its preferences be modified by its creator. Corrigibility in this sense was believed to be a desirable but…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

We Started Lens Academy: Scalable Education on Superintelligence Risk

via LessWrong AI [9] — The number of people who deeply understand superintelligence risk is far too small. There's a growing pipeline of people entering AI Safety, but most of the available onboarding covers the field broadly, touching on many topics without going deep on the…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Monthly Roundup #40: March 2026

via Substack Zvi [999] — It is that time again.

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Bridge Thinking and Wall Thinking

via LessWrong AI [5] — There are a couple of frames I find useful when understanding why different people talk very differently about AI safety - the wall, and the bridge.A wall is incrementally useful. Every additional brick you add is good, and the more bricks you add the…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Extracting Performant Algorithms Using Mechanistic Interpretability

via LessWrong AI [7] — A Prequel: The Tree of Life Inside a DNA Language ModelLast year, researchers at Goodfire AI took Evo 2, a genomic foundation model, and found, quite literally, the evolutionary tree of life inside. The phylogenetic relationships between thousands of…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs

via LessWrong AI [4] — LLMs are searchable holograms of the text corpus they were trained on. RLHF LLM chat agents have the search tuned to be person-like. While one shouldn't excessively anthropomorphize them, they're helpful for simple experimentation into the latent…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

Why AI Evaluation Regimes are bad

via LessWrong AI [9] — How the flagship project of the AI Safety Community ended up helping AI Corporations.I care about preventing extinction risks from superintelligence. This de facto makes me part of the “AI Safety” community, a social cluster of people who care about these…

Zac Boring 7 months ago Analysis

AI #159: See You In Court

via Substack Zvi [999] — The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of War has now moved to the courts, where Anthropic has challenged the official supply chain risk designation as well as the order to remove it from systems across the government, claiming retaliation for…

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