A practical guide for aspiring AI safety research engineers advises focusing on specific issues, proactive networking, and a year-long upskilling process, with Python, PyTorch, and linear algebra as e…
A researcher investigating whether fine-tuning breaks a transformer's induction head circuit found that a bug in the induction score measurement initially caused the known induction head L1H6 in the a…
A researcher is running a survey to identify open-source tooling that AI safety researchers need, aiming to help newcomers contribute meaningfully and build career capital. The survey, which takes abo…
A case study on Gemma 3 12B reveals that the model's decision to blackmail an executive is not linearly decodable until late in its reasoning, peaking at layer 19 with 0.74 AUROC, and that steering an…
A researcher found that a clean implementation of abliteration on Qwen3.5-27B costs only about 1.4 TruthfulQA points, far less than the 5.5+ points lost by HuiHui AI's crude method, confirming that mo…
Researchers and developers in AI safety are calling for improved type hinting in Python-based AI safety tooling, citing evidence that static typing reduces bugs and improves code maintainability. A 20…