A LessWrong blog post argues that AI agents are underutilized in optimization tasks, presenting a case study to demonstrate their potential for improving performance in such domains.…
A new initiative aims to connect young rationalists aged 16-20 for high-leverage discussions on philosophy and alignment, addressing the lack of formal infrastructure for talented youth. The project s…
A former EMS worker with a traumatic brain injury accuses the entire AI industry of abandoning its safety mission, claiming repeated attempts to present alignment concerns to organizations like LessWr…
A LessWrong post argues that AI alignment research should prioritize foundational theory over empirical studies of specific systems, using an analogy to Isaac Newton's pursuit of calculus (fluxions) o…
The Future of Life Institute launched a competition last week to develop AI workflows for creating reliable, trustworthy knowledge bases, aiming to produce deeply researched encyclopedias that trace a…
Researchers at Fulcrum have introduced Inverse Rubric Optimization, a new framework designed to serve as a testbed for studying agent behavior and alignment. The system allows developers to define com…
A corrigible AI system would allow its operators to correct mistakes and redirect its goals, but the author argues this capability is dangerous because it would place unchecked power in the hands of w…
A new approach to AI alignment proposes keeping artificial superintelligence at a manageable capacity by boosting human intelligence and introspection through brain-computer interfaces, rather than tr…
AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky estimates a 49% chance his own actions are making the AI risk problem worse, while Jesse Clifton stepped down as executive director of the Center on Long-Term Risk i…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 refuses to perform stylometric identification at a much higher rate than its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.7, and achieves a 0% success rate when attempting to identify the us…
The internet is becoming increasingly hostile to human users as bots proliferate, with CAPTCHAs, multi-factor authentication, and proof-of-work systems failing to distinguish legitimate users from aut…
A biologically plausible stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is required to simulate the effect of additional brain mass for human intelligence augmentation, but the correct local learning rul…
Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* was not written by artificial intelligence, according to critics of recent claims on LessWrong that the document was largely AI-generated. The Va…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangra…
An analysis by Linch Zhang, posted on the forum LessWrong, found that portions of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were between 40 percent and 100 percent likely written by AI, accordin…