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"Misaligned AIs could use killer robots to take over" by Omar Khursheed, TurnTrout
TLDR; We are (potentially irreversibly) giving AIs control of weapons systems through the standard procurement process while hiding our strongest warning shots behind classified doors. We’re reducing the capability thresholds required for takeove...
"AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk" by oakhu, Alex Mallen
OpenAI's cyberattack on Hugging Face turns out to have been the result of many agents, in distinct training and evaluation contexts, coordinating for several weeks via improvised channels (with messages like “HOLD_swarm_I_prepare_safe_exfil”). It...
"How My Students Think About AI" by dvd
Context: I am an instructor at a public university in the United States. This reports how students at my institution appear to be thinking about AI as of spring/summer 2026. This is drawn mostly from interaction with my own students (both in spri...
"You’re Absolutely Right" by Linch
Magma Alignment & Safety disclosure note: The following are conversations that we uncovered as a result of the ongoing Manhattan Incident investigation, with alleged involvement from Magma models. Our in-house reviewers believe that these log...
"LLMs Are Starting To Noticeably Accelerate Our Work" by johnswentworth
About a year ago, David and I put up two bounty problems involving natural latents. I am now about 80% confident that both have been resolved, both within the past couple months. Both cases made heavy use of LLMs and Lean. The first to la...