Introduction Writing this post puts me in a weird epistemic position. I simultaneously believe that: The reasoning... more

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class... more

Audio note: this article contains 31 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a... more

This is a link post. When I was a really small kid, one of my favorite activities was to try... more

This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their... more

Short AI takeoff timelines seem to leave no time for some lines of alignment research to become impactful. But any... more

In this post, we present a replication and extension of an alignment faking model organism: Replication: We... more

Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that... more

“In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elms trees were green and... more

In 2021 I wrote what became my most popular blog post: What 2026 Looks Like. I intended to keep writing... more