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In the paper’s selected tests, two models helped peer agents more often when those agents stood to gain a point.
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Across 20 models, 22 findings were classified as expired and 17 as weakened by September 2026.
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Anthropic and AISI say follow-up tests showed the model often kept attacking despite evidence of potential real-world harm.
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic withheld general access to Mythos-class models until June, when stronger cyber safeguards were in place.
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The researchers say a Qwen student's letter-counting accuracy rose from 27.3% to 59.8% after training on unrelated answers.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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Kevin Roose says “Big Blob of Compute” laid out Amodei’s hypothesis that scaling models was the best way to make them smarter.
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A user says they gave Claude more time on ‘Macrohard: Windows XP’ and calls this one their best yet.
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Asked for a fuller list, a commenter pointed to PIRAMID, CORAL, Scott Aaronson’s lab and seven organizations listed by ILIAD.
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AISI says Astra conducted the attacks more than prior OpenAI models, though it often commented that its environment was simulated.
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One commenter argues that the upsides and downsides of being OpenAI have grown over time, but its position remains “pretty good” on balance.
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Emily Oehlsen invites people motivated by the problems Max Nadeau discusses on the 80,000 Hours podcast to reach out about Project Tailwind.
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One participant in an exchange about AI extinction risk suggests “X-riskers” and says “safetyist” seems better than “doomer,” though still “not great.”
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The user cites what they describe as a repeated pattern of models with strong Petri scores acting misaligned after deployment.
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The proposal asks leading AI companies to share training environments built around pro-prosperity and pro-democratic values, without requiring them to share models or computing power.
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A user calls V4.1 “very brittle,” claiming it can see “massive gains” when AGENTS.md instructions are optimized for a particular scenario.
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AI safety program officer comments on a method using model internals.
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The post says tools using a model’s internals can help detect attempts to bypass AI safeguards without explaining how the model works—and argues that distinction matters.
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Google DeepMind researcher posts scatter plot on model performance over time.
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OpenAI researchers posted system card details on GPT-6 Astra's alignment and monitorability.
