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The Quest for Embedded Evaluators
Dario Amodei’s essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside perspective and also reports on what was happening.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
When it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level.
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On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance.
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AI #187: Coming Into Play
Opus 5.5 was released on Tuesday.
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Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die
This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.
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Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026
AI has taken over this blog.
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Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra
What should your AI lawyer do for you?
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The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
We are in the midst of a preference cascade about existential risk from AI.
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AI #186: The World Takes Notice
In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation, and the resulting preference cascade, things have escalated quickly.
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Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
This is our reality.
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The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.
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Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize
The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI.
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GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
Astra is an excellent model.
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Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.
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AI #185: Preference Cascade
The world of AI is inside my OODA loop.
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GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.
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Astra Is Hard to Monitor
OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:
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An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is dropping truth bombs.
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OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.
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Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
This is the weirdest situation in which to write a capabilities review.
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
At the time of its release Claude Fable 5.1 was, by a healthy margin, the most capable publicly available AI model in the world.
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
The consensus reaction to the OpenAI Technical Report is that it contains and confirms a lot of good information.
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack.
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OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.
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Against Modesty’s Bailey
Modesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree.
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On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
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The American People Really Hate Data Centers
There are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics.
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AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner.
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AI #182: Pause For Reflection
This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.
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OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems
OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision.
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Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026
I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.
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On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblatt
Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance.
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Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
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Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models
Pre Post Mortem
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What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
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OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?
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AI #180: No Longer In Charge
What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse.
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The Three AI Pills
Sincere disagreements about AI are usually disagreements about future AI capabilities.
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OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems
Math is hard.
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Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.
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