The Lathe

This week: If God Arrived As a Chatbot, Late-Stage Pressure States in Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents, AI Control safety case, Questionnaire, The Coming Storm

In the Wild

This week: METR’s brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, The Hugging Face incident, Breaking ArrowCloak, Prime Agent, maturation process

Boundaries

This week: open-weight genome language model safeguards, watermark localization, AI guardrail survival, stealing reasoning traces, A US strategy to prevent the creation of mirror life

Large Worlds

This Week: Genome language models, weak verifiers, agentic inequality, cognitive commons, cooperation in large worlds, cooperative AI, genesys open models

The World Inside

This week: Mental world modeling, execution trajectories, benchmark saturation, social environment design, omnicidal futures, pandemic risk in shared socioeconomic pathways

Masks and Monitors

This week: Model belief, role-typed credit assignment, personascope, distillation and personas, monitoring the monitor

The Control Stack

This week: measuring reward-seeking, truthworthy llm’s, control-accountablity, T^ 2MLR, Dyson spheres, Lanius.

The Intelligence Begins Watching Itself

This week: SAD, distributed attacks in persistent-state AI control, metacognitive reasoning, CALIBER, the red queen godel machine, subjective self-experience, the economics of recursive self improvement

Widening the Bottleneck

This week: Haiku to Opus in just 10 bits, QKV variants, next-latent prediction transformers, ai moral status, motivated reasoning, emotion concepts, AI designed radio chips, plan A