AI Safety Diary: August 22, 2025

A diary entry on the audio version of Chapter 2 of the AI Safety Atlas, focusing on various AI risks, including misuse, accidents, and systemic risks, and the challenges of alignment failures.

August 22, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 21, 2025

A diary entry on the audio version of Chapter 1 of the AI Safety Atlas, focusing on AI capabilities, the progression toward AGI, and frameworks for measuring AI intelligence.

August 21, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 20, 2025

A diary entry on Vending-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating the long-term coherence and decision-making capabilities of autonomous LLM-based agents in a simulated business environment.

August 20, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 19, 2025

A diary entry on the societal impacts of AI, including ethical concerns like bias and job displacement, and strategies for controlling powerful AI systems to ensure alignment and mitigate risks.

August 19, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 18, 2025

A diary entry on Chapter 3 of the Effective Altruism Handbook, ‘Radical Empathy’, which explores impartial care and extending empathy to non-human animals.

August 18, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 17, 2025

A diary entry on several Anthropic discussions, including AI interpretability, the affective use of AI for emotional support, and the philosophical questions surrounding AI consciousness and model welfare.

August 17, 2025 · 2 min

AI Safety Diary: August 16, 2025

A diary entry on Anthropic’s research into Persona Vectors, a method for monitoring and controlling character traits in Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve safety and alignment.

August 16, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 15, 2025

A diary entry on Chapter 2 of the Effective Altruism Handbook, focusing on the significant differences in the impact of interventions aimed at alleviating global poverty.

August 15, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 14, 2025

A diary entry on Chapter 1 of the AI Safety Atlas, focusing on AI capabilities, the progression toward AGI, and frameworks for measuring AI intelligence.

August 14, 2025 · 1 min

AI Safety Diary: August 13, 2025

A diary entry on Unit 1 of the BlueDot AI Alignment course, covering foundational concepts like neural networks, gradient descent, transformers, and the future impacts of AI.

August 13, 2025 · 1 min