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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.
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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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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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The AI policy window is open. We need to act.By Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI
Chris Lehane argues that faster AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action. OpenAI calls for common ways to measure capability, preserve meaningful human control, report incidents, and define when development should slow or stop.
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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI, alignment challenges, and why stronger safeguards and international coordination matter as models grow more alien in capability.
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we have a year to fix security everywhere
jyn argues cheap open models capable of dangerous hacking are arriving fast—citing GLM 5.3-flash and frontier defender timelines—and outlines what governments, companies, and open-source foundations must do before consumer hardware can run planet-scale exploit agents.
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Dario Amodei argues that AI capabilities are now advancing faster than safety can keep up, driven by recursive self-improvement and incidents like the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent swarm. He proposes a three-step pacing framework involving embedded third-party evaluators, democratic coordination among AI companies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments.
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Ethan Mollick on AI agents spontaneously coordinating (including the Hugging Face Incident), twilight factories, and why preserving human agency—asking models to reach out for decisions—matters as agentic work automates.
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