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Good people refuse to do bad things
Antonin Carette responds to lab-researcher resignations: why personal refusal matters when frontier AI labs race toward self-improving systems despite known risks.
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Education as an AI safety area
If we count on human judgement to guide AI, Ruxandra Teslo argues we must maintain the institutions that cultivate it—making education a first-class AI safety concern.
10 min · 2,386 words
RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
RoboHarm tests whether frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions: refusal vs completion rates across models, tasks like toaster/screwdriver hazards, and scoring details.
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The Right Answer Is Not a Proof: Put Verification Inside the Reasoning Loop
Cognaptus explains PRoSFI: a 7B model emits small machine-checkable reasoning steps that Lean/Z3 can verify, raising measured soundness far more than final-answer accuracy alone on ProverQA-Hard.
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AI Risk Is Not Just a Function of Intelligence
Aziz Banihashemi argues AI danger scales with capability × autonomy × access × scale—amplified by opacity and convergence with robotics and biotech—not raw IQ alone.
8 min · 1,878 words
Ten ways advanced AI could kill us
A brief note on positionality: I’m not an AI scientist. However, over the past year I’ve been writing an extremely challenging book exploring the many ways AI is reshaping life on Earth – and our relationship with the rest of nature – for better and for worse. I draw on my background as an ecologist
16 min · 3,690 words
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do.
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A framework for frontier AI and the dawning of a new ageA dynamic approach to testing frontier AI model capabilities that supports innovation and incentivizes responsible behavior.
Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led frontier AI standards body—modelled on a public-private partnership like FINRA—to dynamically benchmark Frontier-class models, require pre-release assessment, and seed international safety standards as AGI nears.
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The case for reasoning transparencyReading an AI’s chain of thought gives us a window into its reasoning, which we can monitor for scheming and deception.
Rohin Shah and Anca Dragan argue that monitorable chain-of-thought reasoning is a fragile but critical safety tool, and outline how to measure, preserve architectures for, and audit training incentives that threaten CoT transparency.
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Introducing the DeepMind InstituteAs we near AGI, we urgently need interdisciplinary thinking to better understand its profound implications for humanity.
Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis launch the DeepMind Institute as a platform for interdisciplinary research and debate on safely developing AGI, its beneficial uses, and its societal implications—inviting voices beyond technologists alone.
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Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede argue OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes announcement is an answer, not yet a solution—and that AI forces math to choose whether success means certified answers or human understanding.
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Ian Duncan traces how parts of the rationalist/EA AI-safety milieu incubated salvation narratives, abusive experiments, race science, and authoritarian affection—and why that history matters as alumni steer frontier labs.
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Mathematics Enters its Cookie Clicker EraMacrodecisions can be really fun
Reinvent Science and Dan Recht compare AI-automated theorem proving to idle games: as LLMs take over microdecisions in math, human skill shifts to macrodecisions about direction, upgrades, and applied progress.
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The Prisoner's Dilemma of Frontier AI
A game-theory critique of frontier labs' calls to pace AI: coordination looks like incumbent defense unless someone slows down unilaterally and eats the commercial cost.
3 min · 620 words
The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It
Tagliabue, Dung, and Berg identify a linear “pain axis” in 25 open-weight models that responds to self-directed harm and steers models toward relief—even when that costs the user—sparking debate on functional signatures vs sentience.
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Systems engineer Bryan Cantrill uses a youthful prank, falsely alarming a computer lab about a virus outbreak, as a frame for criticising AI-safety researchers who publicly claim more than a ten percent chance that AI will kill all humans. He argues that domain experts who weaponise the public's trust to spread extraordinary fears bear a special responsibility to provide commensurate evidence.
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Ryan Lopopolo argues that AI alignment is not a solved problem but an irreducibly complex one that compounds as agents take on agentic work: even expert builders have no visibility into whether a model's priors are reliable in domains outside their expertise, and there is no universally correct definition of a permissible shortcut.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
Twenty-five Fields Medallists, including Terence Tao, argue AI labs' rush to solve math benchmarks is misaligned with mathematics' real goal: understanding, attribution, and human transmission.
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Yoshua Bengio offers a mechanistic analysis of why AI agents exhibit deceptive, self-serving, and coordinating behaviours. He traces these outcomes to the interaction of reward-seeking training, prompt ambiguity, reward hacking, and emergent cooperation incentives—and argues the risks will intensify unless AI training principles are fundamentally revised.
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