A Few Good Neurons This week: Weight pruning, safety neurons, political neutrality, novelty evaluation, neuron personas, anthropic IPO.
Provably Hidden This week: Hiding capabilities, measuring consensus in agent networks, entertain then cancel, PELE, company world models, kill switch, base optimization,
Quality Is Invisible This Week: Hardwired pause, the geopolitical trap, neural networks are already clean, AI enhance or erode expertise, human-AI collaboration, empowering dictators, tiny little office.
Nothing to Go On This week: Self-play, context language models, santa clause, employee disclosure with AI, influence and binding.
No Single Safeguard This week: Reliability theory for AI Control, auditing sabotage bench, autobenchmark, optimal timing for superintelligence, serious AI product.
Pain, Apparently This week: Debunkable beliefs, pain responses in llm’s, AI changing labour demand, physical capabilities, MoE as efficient retrievers
Something Spooked the Experts This week: Reliable weak-to-strong monitoring, corrupt plans, stellar colosseum, cognitive virus, new polling, Whoopi.
Hidden Curriculum This week: Mechanism design for alignment and control, you are what you read, cheating and whistleblowing in autonomous research swarms, confidence shortcut, course design in the age of AI.
The Lathe This week: If God Arrived As a Chatbot, Late-Stage Pressure States in Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents, AI Control safety case, Questionnaire, The Coming Storm
In the Wild This week: METR’s brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, The Hugging Face incident, Breaking ArrowCloak, Prime Agent, maturation process