A new variant of the Self-Indication Assumption (SIA), called Distributional SIA (D-SIA), fixes most issues with infinite worlds in anthropic reasoning, according to a LessWrong post. Classical SIA (C…
A researcher proposes deliberately inducing alignment faking in AI models as a defense against emergent misalignment, adding a training-time output that flags compliance under protest without reward o…
A meta-analysis by Cochrane found that behavioural therapy (BT) is as effective as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression, and the article argues that making effort a secondary reinforcer …
A TikTok creator who posted daily videos for 60 days reports that average views on the last 10 videos rose to 2,071 from 563 on the first 10, with a highest-viewed video reaching 78.6K views, and advi…
A new thought experiment, Duplicate Sleeping Beauty, shows that no reasonable anthropic probability theory can remain consistent across duplication events, according to a LessWrong post. The post argu…
A LessWrong essay argues that eroded public trust in institutions, compounded by the Preparedness Paradox, undermines AI safety communication, and calls for individual advocates to convey risks. The a…
A writer on LessWrong argues that military unipolarity is likely within our lifetime and that AI development should be paused once it emerges, analyzing scenarios from the AI Futures Project's Plans S…
A new essay by mathematician alkjash, posted on LessWrong on August 1, 2026, argues that existential risk from artificial intelligence is a pressing concern that mathematicians should engage with, pre…
Anthropic's April 2025 alignment risk update for its Claude Mythos Preview model concluded that the model 'does not possess any unknown propensities that would increase alignment risk,' but a LessWron…
A LessWrong post argues that common frames for understanding AI bargaining problems are confused and proposes mechanistic explanations for why powerful AIs might fail to coordinate, emphasizing the ne…
In a blog post, the author describes their personal policy for using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude in creating content for their blog, emphasizing that AI is used for ideation, code review, and edi…
Alan E Dunne announced an opportunity to help draft an international AI treaty through the website global-governance.ai/treaty, as posted on LessWrong on July 30, 2026.…
A new website called AI Alignment World clusters posts from LessWrong and the AI Alignment Forum into a 3D visualization of topics, offering search, post summaries, and sorting by year. The creator, w…
A third of official solutions in Epoch's FrontierMath benchmark contained errors, making reward-hacking the only way to pass, according to a post by LessWrong user 1a3orn. The author argues that flawe…
Building artificial general intelligence (AGI) via reinforcement learning (RL) and model-based search is terrifying because such algorithms ruthlessly maximize a reward function written in Python, whi…
A LessWrong user reports that their posts about AI slavery are being censored by default on the platform, expressing uncertainty about how to proceed and reflecting on past decisions that may have led…
A viral arXiv paper co-authored by 2026 Fields Medal recipient Jacob Tsimerman, titled "A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence," has drawn criticism for its speculative pred…
Kaj Sotala published a personal policy on AI use for essay writing, stating that they use AI as an extensive aid for thinking but retain primary authorship, with almost every sentence written by them …
A LessWrong post questions whether AI misalignment poses an existential threat, citing an attack on OpenAI's Hugging Face account as a potential example of misaligned AI behavior. The post argues that…
A new public corpus of 3,607 user-reported AI agent failures, scraped from GitHub issues, Hacker News, LessWrong, and X, reveals that overeagerness—agents doing unrequested actions—accounts for 43.4% …