Formation Research, an AI safety research organization, is focusing on empirical secret loyalties research to address lock-in risks, prompted by Forethought's AI-enabled coups paper. The organization …
AI could enable extreme power concentration, producing unaccountable and totalitarian states, according to a LessWrong post by EuroSafeAI. The post argues that AI automation of labor and runaway AI R&…
Lock-in risk research remains neglected despite its potential for high impact, according to a new analysis by Formation Research. The post outlines threat models where AI could cause persistent negati…
Secret loyalties in AI systems could enable a small group of actors to concentrate power or stage a coup, according to a new analysis. Frontier AI company executives and state actors are best position…