Book Notes: Chokepoints

Jakub Halmeš29 Aug 2026 9:02 UTC

2 points

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(unpredictabletokens.substack.com)

“Keeping human skills alive” as a source of meaning under full automation

Vaughn Papenhausen29 Aug 2026 6:38 UTC

4 points

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AI Tweets

jefftk29 Aug 2026 3:01 UTC

37 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

The Curious Case of France’s Untouchable Castes

rba28 Aug 2026 23:18 UTC

36 points

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It’s time we took ‘Chem’ out of ‘Chem-Bio’ threats

Ana Leonescu28 Aug 2026 21:43 UTC

14 points

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What would it mean if assistants are privileged?

derek shiller28 Aug 2026 21:01 UTC

7 points

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The Probability of an Event under a Simplicity Prior

Winter Cross28 Aug 2026 19:32 UTC

8 points

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[Macroagents] 2. Design lenses for optimizing macroagents

Towards_Keeperhood28 Aug 2026 19:07 UTC

5 points

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AI as Corrigible Employee (ACE)

Nathan Helm-Burger28 Aug 2026 19:01 UTC

10 points

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TASTE: Can AI Models Judge AI Safety Research Proposals?

Hasan Baig, haileyjoren and Joe Benton

28 Aug 2026 18:36 UTC

43 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

If you can’t trust, then verify!

dan.parshall28 Aug 2026 18:02 UTC

7 points

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Value generalisation theory of change: the theory behind the approach

Stuart_Armstrong28 Aug 2026 13:30 UTC

20 points

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The Dynamics of Intelligence Explosions

Toby_Ord28 Aug 2026 9:41 UTC

38 points

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(arxiv.org)

Do AI Models Want to Be Monitored? Measuring Monitorability Disposition in Large Reasoning Models

Shahriar Golchin28 Aug 2026 7:32 UTC

11 points

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Safety’s Second Way

Stephen Elliott28 Aug 2026 7:00 UTC

9 points

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Imperfect alignment to servitude isn’t inherently lethal

Fiora Starlight28 Aug 2026 1:47 UTC

88 points

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AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident: Comparing the OpenAI report to AI Village observations

Shoshannah Tekofsky27 Aug 2026 23:09 UTC

58 points

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Warning Shots: A Theory

David Scott Krueger27 Aug 2026 23:01 UTC

30 points

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(therealartificialintelligence.substack.com)

Brain preservation as existential risk reduction

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston27 Aug 2026 22:25 UTC

7 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(preservinghope.substack.com)

Malign initializations are more robust when the model can think better in the reasoning language than in the output language

Dylan Xu, SebastianP and Alek Westover

27 Aug 2026 21:33 UTC

30 points

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