[Paper] Stringological sequence prediction I

Vanessa Kosoy7 Apr 2026 9:11 UTC

11 points

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(arxiv.org)

AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I’ve updated towards shorter timelines

ryan_greenblatt6 Apr 2026 16:01 UTC

148 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

There should be $100M grants to automate AI safety

Marius Hobbhahn3 Apr 2026 18:44 UTC

56 points

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My most common research advice: do quick sanity checks

LawrenceC2 Apr 2026 2:41 UTC

36 points

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Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

David Lindner1 Apr 2026 10:23 UTC

27 points

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(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL

7vik, Sid Black and Joseph Bloom

30 Mar 2026 10:56 UTC

110 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

ControlAI 2025 Impact Report: our progress toward an international ban on ASI

Andrea_Miotti and Alex Amadori

27 Mar 2026 18:10 UTC

79 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(controlai.com)

Test your best methods on our hard CoT interp tasks

daria, Riya Tyagi, Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

26 Mar 2026 19:24 UTC

55 points

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A Toy Environment For Exploring Reasoning About Reward

jenny and Bronson Schoen

25 Mar 2026 20:29 UTC

55 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight

jenny and Bronson Schoen

18 Mar 2026 21:26 UTC

68 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.openai.com)

“Act-based approval-directed agents”, for IDA skeptics

Steven Byrnes18 Mar 2026 18:47 UTC

62 points

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New RFP on Interpretability from Schmidt Sciences

Peter Hase17 Mar 2026 16:08 UTC

15 points

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(schmidtsciences.smapply.io)

Power Steering: Behavior Steering via Layer-to-Layer Jacobian Singular Vectors

Omar Ayyub13 Mar 2026 3:55 UTC

20 points

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Operationalizing FDT

Vivek Hebbar13 Mar 2026 0:12 UTC

90 points

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How well do models follow their constitutions?

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

12 Mar 2026 0:07 UTC

97 points

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The Refined Counterfactual Prisoner’s Dilemma: An Attempt to Explode Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism

Chris_Leong11 Mar 2026 12:32 UTC

18 points

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AIs will be used in “unhinged” configurations

Arthur Conmy11 Mar 2026 11:19 UTC

58 points

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The case for satiating cheaply-satisfied AI preferences

Alex Mallen10 Mar 2026 18:09 UTC

103 points

7 comments23 min readLW link

Censored LLMs as a Natural Testbed for Secret Knowledge Elicitation

Bartosz Cywiński, Helena Casademunt, Khoi Tran, aryaj, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

9 Mar 2026 18:50 UTC

30 points

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Payorian cooperation is easy with Kripke frames

transhumanist_atom_understander9 Mar 2026 0:29 UTC

70 points

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