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NATO-backed startup adapts AI for autonomous drone recon and attack missions

Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.

Ars Technica AI·17 Sept→

The J-lens offset is the model's token frequency: z-scoring helps

This is a linkpost for the write-up on my site ; the full body is below, and the code, decisions ledger and devlog are in the repo . Base-model z-score calibration of the J-lens helps elicit hidden secret words from Cywiński et al.'s taboo organisms: 0.805 lea

LessWrong·17 Sept→

Grantmakers aren’t afraid to die

The AI Risk grantmakers do not act like they believe in imminent existential risk from AI The idea of "revealed preferences" is one of the most useful in economics; it allows us to cut through a great deal of metaphysical angst about what someone "really" beli

LessWrong·17 Sept→

Against AI Risk becoming mainstream

Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of people are celebrating AI risk becoming a

LessWrong·17 Sept→

Against AI Safety becoming mainstream

Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of people are celebrating AI risk becoming a

LessWrong·17 Sept→

OpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm very worried

TechRadar AI·17 Sept→

A Defense of Gradual Disempowerment

(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al. ) Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website ) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes beyond "mundane" risks like bioweapon u

LessWrong·17 Sept→

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.

TechCrunch AI·17 Sept→

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.

TechCrunch AI·17 Sept→

Google announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.

Ars Technica AI·17 Sept→

Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?

Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.

TechCrunch AI·17 Sept→

Swarm Organization as the Exponent on Test-Time Compute

Swarm organization - the efficacy of cooperation between AIs in a multi-agent system - may change how parallel test-time compute increases AI capabilities, moving it from a sublinear [1] to a superlinear exponent. [2] That is, rather than more parallel agents

LessWrong·17 Sept→