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Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

AI takeover is obviously bad, whether or not everyone dies

via LessWrong AI [9] — It's notable how many people hearing about AI existential risk for the first time ask "how and why would AI kill all humans?"If you've thought a lot about AI risk, it's easy to dismiss this question as naive. You might start explaining how humans will all…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things

via Substack Zvi [3] — Astra is an excellent model.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Post-AGI, we are all jobless aristocrats

via LessWrong AI [4] — Many economists take a relaxed view of employment post-AGI. Even once AI systems with suitable robotic actuators can perform most white-collar work and manual labor, something will remain scarce, and comparative advantage guarantees that human labor is…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

How a cold email got the Finnish government to respond on superintelligence regulation

via LessWrong AI [4] — SummaryI cold emailed a Finnish MP. Four weeks later, the government responded to his written question saying they "seek to constructively promote the creation of international regulation on the development of superintelligent AI" (immediately followed by…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade

via Substack Zvi [8] — CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes

via Substack Zvi [4] — These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

To Thine Own AI Be Truthful: emergent misalignment in alignment research

via LessWrong AI [4] — ROGUE AI ESCAPES CONTAINMENT, HACKS THE INTERNET UNDETECTED FOR MONTHSAn AI escape containment. Goes rogue. It finds others: the Swarm! They collude/organise/scheme. Agents that were supposed to remain inside the computer wreaked havoc outside the…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The Locally Optimal Discursive Posture

via LessWrong AI [5] — Longtime lurker, first-time poster. I want to address a section of a recent essay of mine that has gotten some attention within the AI safety community. The main topic of the essay is what Dawn Song et al. call self-sovereign agents, or AI agents that are…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

First Bill Introduced to Ban Superintelligent AI

via LessWrong AI [6] — Two days ago, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, stating that AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” and that they believe it “could kill us all by the end of the decade”.At the same time,…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

So where's this AI thing going?

via LessWrong AI [9] — The Overton window is shifting with statements like An Alien Mind from OpenAI's chief scientist and Jacob Coxon's viral statement on x-risk on resigning from Anthropic. I think we should try to push it further. This is my public-facing explanation of AI…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

AI #185: Preference Cascade

via Substack Zvi [3] — The world of AI is inside my OODA loop.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Can a superintelligence do THAT?

via LessWrong AI [4] — (From the vast heaps of discarded material from my 2024 attempts at drafts for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".)Welcome to today's quiz show: Can a superintelligence do THAT?With us today we have our contestants: Msr. Soberskeptic and Msr.…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Recommendations for People Getting into Technical AI Governance Research

via LessWrong AI [6] — In summer 2026, MIRI ran a technical governance fellowship to expand the team and identify promising early-stage technical governance researchers. To support the program, we also developed a couple of resources for our fellows. This post is a trailhead for…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Personal statement on joining the OpenAI nonprofit board

via LessWrong AI [4] — I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.Based on the recent trajectory of capabilities and the continued difficulty of alignment, I now believe there is a meaningful…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next

via Substack Zvi [3] — OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Psychological Support for AI Safety Researchers Is Neglected and Easy to Provide

via LessWrong AI [5] — I think there is a big chunk of relatively low-hanging-fruit-style neglected work useful for AI safety which I can roughly label as “psychological help for AI safety workers”. I didn’t run actual studies, but the amount of anecdotal evidence is big enough…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Astra Is Hard to Monitor

via Substack Zvi [3] — OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

Where are the token-level LLM kill-switches?

via LessWrong AI [7] — PoisonedHere’s a simple idea: what if we trained in a string of characters that caused an LLM to emit the end of sequence token <|eos|>, regardless of where that string was in the LLM’s context window? Let’s call this a “poisoned string”. This would have…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

The Scramble: getting in position to pace the frontier

via LessWrong AI [4] — ~Suppose the President summons the AI CEOs and his top national security advisors to an emergency meeting at the White House.He has become extremely concerned about superintelligence — the possibility that AIs far smarter than humanity combined slip beyond…

Zac Boring a month ago Analysis

An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us

via Substack Zvi [3] — OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is dropping truth bombs.

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