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Your Causal Variables Are Irreducibly Subjective
Mechanistic interpretability needs its own shoe leather era. Reproducing the labeling process will matter more…
Mox is the largest AI Safety community space in San Francisco. We’re fundraising!
Summary: Mox is fundraising to maintain and grow AIS projects, build a compelling membership, and…
Self-Attribution Bias: When AI Monitors Go Easy on Themselves
PaperA common pattern in AI evaluation pipelines involves using an LLM to generate an action,…
Thoughts on the Pause AI protest
On Saturday (Feb 28, 2026) I attended my first ever protest. It was jointly organized…
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Jeremy Howard was recently[1] interviewed on the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast: YouTube link, interactive transcript,…
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Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has…
Microsoft: Anthropic Claude remains available to customers except the Defense Department
Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude…
Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox —…