Playing Possum: The Variability Hypothesis
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, before #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein,…
Category: Opinion
Reasoning Models Struggle to Control Their Chains of Thought
Authors: Yueh-Han Chen, Robert McCarthy, Bruce W. Lee, He He, Ian Kivlichan, Bowen Baker, Micah…
Personality Self-Replicators
One-sentence summaryI describe the risk of personality self-replicators, the threat of OpenClaw-like agents managing to spread…
Salient Directions in AI Control
This writing is organized in three sections:Section 0 - A short overview of AI ControlSection…
Models have linear representations of what tasks they like
This work was done as part of MATS 9.0, mentored by Patrick Butlin. All mistakes…
AI Safety Has 12 Months Left
The past decade of technology has been defined by many wondering what the upper bound…
Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?
The US homicide rate hit 10.2 per 100,000 in 1980, fell to 4.4 by 2014,…
How can I arrest and reverse stress, anxiety and depression induced cognitive decline?
I have suffered poor mental health for multiple years and noticed a decline in my…
Investigating Self-Fulfilling Misalignment and Collusion in AI Control
This work is based on Dmitrii’s Bachelor’s thesis, which Vili advised. The thesis is available…
Computation, Chess, and Language in Artificial Intelligence
New working paper. Title above, links, abstract, contents and introduction below:Academia: https://www.academia.edu/164885566/Computation_Chess_and_Language_in_Artificial_Intelligence SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319062 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401355671_Computation_Chess_and_Language_in_Artificial_IntelligenceAbstract: This…