Archive - AI safety takes

January-February 2025 safety news: Emergent misalignment, SAE sanity checks, Utility engineering

Some papers I’ve learned something from recently, or where I have takes.

Mar 9 •

January 2025

You should delay engineering-heavy research in light of R&D automation

tl;dr: LLMs rapidly improving at software engineering and math means lots of projects are better off as Google Docs until your AI agent intern can…

Jan 6 •

October 2024

September/October 2024 safety news: Jailbreaks on robots, Breaking unlearning, Forecasting evals

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Oct 31, 2024 •

August 2024

July/August 2024 safety news: Tamper resistance, Fluent jailbreaks, Scaling limits

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Aug 31, 2024 •

July 2024

May/June 2024 safety news: Out-of-context reasoning, Sparse autoencoders, Interpreting CLIP

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Jul 1, 2024 •

April 2024

March/April 2024 safety news: Latent training, Emergent abilities, Instruction hierarchy

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Apr 30, 2024 •

February 2024

January/February 2024 safety news: Sleeper agents, In-context reward hacking, Universal neurons

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Feb 29, 2024 •

December 2023

November/December 2023 safety news: Weak-to-strong generalization, Superhuman concepts, Google-proof benchmark

Better version of the Twitter newsletter.

Dec 27, 2023 •

October 2023

September/October 2023 safety news: Sparse autoencoders, A is B is not B is A, Image hijacks

Better version of the Twitter thread.

Oct 17, 2023 •

August 2023

July 2023

June/July 2023 safety news: Jailbreaks, Transformer Programs, Superalignment

Better version of the monthly Twitter thread. Will be back to the regular release frequency next month. Thanks to Charbel-Raphaël Segerie for the…

Jul 15, 2023 •

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