PDF version. berkeleygenomics.org. William Thurston was a world-renowned mathematician. His ideas revolutionized many areas of geometry and topology[1]; the... more

Includes a link to the full Gemini conversation, but setting the stage first: There is a puzzle. If you... more

A new AI alignment player has entered the arena. Emmett Shear, Adam Goldstein and David Bloomin have set up... more

Epistemic status: This post aims at an ambitious target: improving intuitive understanding directly. The model for why this is... more

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America's next top large language model. That doesn’t mean it is the best model... more

What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed? Google seems to have pulled that... more

The other day I discussed how high monitoring costs can explain the emergence of “aristocratic” systems of governance: Aristocracy... more

[This is our blog post on the papers, which can be found at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html and https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html.] Language models like... more

At EA Global Boston last year I gave a talk on how we're in the third wave of EA/AI... more

Summary We wanted to briefly share an early takeaway from our exploration into alignment faking: the phenomenon appears fairly... more