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  1. -3 h

    “We’ve saved the world before: what the ozone hole teaches us about AI” by leogao

    It might destroy the world, despite passing every known safety test. If we wait for a “warning shot” before we act, it might be too late. And action requires global coordination, because if anyone makes it, everyone dies. Sound familiar? It should, because it already happened half a century ago, with chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Despite seemingly impossible odds, we got our act together and completely solved the problem through unprecedentedly successful international coordination. The Montreal Protocol banning CFCs, signed 39 years ago today, is the only treaty that has ever been ratified by every single country in the entire world. Total Montreal protocol victory Making AI go well is going to be a lot harder than fixing the ozone hole. Nonetheless, the similarity is uncanny, and we don’t have any other choice. Understanding how we did the impossible once before may teach us something about how to do it again. The theory is born The year is 1973. The slow televised unraveling of the Nixon administration is already well underway. DDT finally got banned last year by the newly created EPA. A river got so polluted that it literally caught on fire. The Cuyahoga River Fire Environmentalism looms large in [...] --- Outline: (01:24) The theory is born (03:39) The world reacts (06:44) The dark years (09:23) An unexpected finding from an unexpected finder (11:26) The warning shot (13:13) A journey to the edge of the world (15:01) Flying into the storm (16:30) The world listens The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 20th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zxXPEtSSSEdwpjopb/we-ve-saved-the-world-before-what-the-ozone-hole-teaches-us --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  2. -10 h

    “The Anatomy of a Chinese AI Researcher” by CMLKevin

    The Chinese AI researcher has read the Three Body Problem series of sci-fi novels since high school, and understand the concept of existential risk vaguely. He is fascinated by Ye Wenjie, the researcher that turned against humanity in that book, and decides that in the future if AI progress leads to a superior intelligence, he might be tempted to become Ye if there's no good alternative. He performs the duties of capabilities research in a Chinese frontier lab, seeking to one day achieve parity with Western companies, though he knows this is difficult. He has a mentality of hillclimbing, believing that the progress of a future technology is highly uncertain and even unknowable, and so him and his peers could only tread one step at a time. He looks at the western world and sees what is typical when a great technology is developed: the first mover will decide to impose restrictions to further their lead, while latecomers should use whatever means necessary to widen access to the whole world. He thinks of the AI chip restrictions as evidence of this. He uses Anthropic and OpenAI models regularly in his day to day work. He [...] --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qmxkHm2dTLKG6GZ6i/the-anatomy-of-a-chinese-ai-researcher --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  3. -12 h

    “Why I Stay Off Twitter” by jefftk

    I avoid Twitter (𝕏) for similar reasons to drugs: I think it would change me for the worse, and I would be unable to give it up. After staying off Twitter reasonably successfully for years, I cross-posted my AI Tweets there a few weeks ago. I had something very Twitter-shaped to say, and I thought it was important to get out, so I do think this was worth it. And it all went well: none of this is complaining about the comments I got there. Coming back a few times to check notifications, however, it's been very good at baiting me: Tweets that are confidently wrong in cases where I have relevant and uncommon knowledge. The pull to dive in and share what I know is very strong! Then this bleeds over to the far broader case where people are wrong, and you have a large potential time sink. If it were just the time sink, I'd stop resisting. I spend some time on HN and Reddit, and to the extent that Twitter could substitute for that by showing me things I was more interested in, that wouldn't be an issue. The real problem [...] --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tvwtwgcujTfep4HgY/why-i-stay-off-twitter --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  4. -14 h

    “NYT Editorial Board Comes Out Against Extinction” by Ben Pace

    (Archive link) The NYT editorial board's article on AI (archive link) is far better than I'd expected, but at the same time not all I'd hoped for. The title sets off very well: "Humanity Has Avoided Apocalypse Before. Let's Do It Again." It is truly excellent to see the extinction threat from loss of control be mainlined. A quick gloss of their policy requests: an AI Commission in government, licensing requirements for AI companies, an AI "constitution" written by the US Government incorporated into AIs, mandatory watermarks/identifiers on all AI content, mandatory independent testing for AI models before release, and a government agency to investigate accidents. Internationally, they call for tightening export controls, limiting China's access to semiconductors, and ultimately negotiating an international slowdown with China and an international framework for AI oversight. These are all steps in the right direction—of taking AI seriously. That said, it isn't clear if the licensing is required for training or for selling AIs. The idea that constitutional AI "would ensure alignment with human values" is of course not remotely true. And mandatory testing should apply to all models trained, not all models released, of course, and this is a glaring oversight. But [...] --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gDQzntJCusNbshWyD/nyt-editorial-board-comes-out-against-extinction --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  5. -15 h

    “Common mistakes in AI safety group organizing” by Nikola Jurkovic

    Back in the day, I was a very active AI safety group organizer. I commonly notice people making the same mistakes across many clubs. I have written down a list of some of these mistakes hoping people will avoid them in the future: Reading groups often require that people read things before meetings. This is a mistake. People often don't do the readings. And the lack of common knowledge that everyone has read the reading degrades the conversation quality. Instead, have longer meetings, serve food (so, lunch/dinner meeting slots), and read during the actual meeting.Reading groups often don't sort people into cohorts properly. Mainly, they fail at clustering people into clusters of roughly equal ML knowledge and age. Grad students don't want to discuss a paper with freshmen. People with lots of ML knowledge don't want to discuss a paper with people with no ML knowledge. Instead, group people with people similar to them in ML knowledge and age.Reading groups often rely on digital materials instead of physical printouts. Screens are distracting and there is no common knowledge that people are paying attention. Neatly print every reading ahead of time instead. Clubs [...] --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XFzqDJjAJBt8fkn8i/common-mistakes-in-ai-safety-group-organizing --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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    “The AI Risk Network” by derelict5432

    Most conversations about AI risks seem like people are talking past each other. There's a lot of strawmanning. This is largely because the issue is complex, and in order to make it manageable, the concepts get oversimplified. The most common example of this is p(doom), collapsing extreme outcomes into a single variable and focusing on that. Critics happily jump on the fact that there are many other possible bad outcomes, or that 100% extinction rates are an extremely high bar. There's some legitimacy to this. So here I want to try to grapple with the the complexity of the larger web of issues surrounding bad AI outcomes by presenting The AI Risk Network. If you’re interested in this topic, bear with me. It might be a bit of a slog. First I want to contrast this approach with others. Liron Shapira has what he calls The Doom Train, a linear progression through various dependencies or thresholds that eventually lead to human extinction, with various ‘stops’ along the way where the skeptic can get off. Shapira uses this as a discussion guide to focus on particular points where the skeptic gets off the train and exits belief in the extreme [...] --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XundBXqKSo3bB2A6a/the-ai-risk-network --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  7. -22 h

    “Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems” by Zvi

    Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known. The report excludes the incident reported by UK AISI. There will also be a METR investigation of these incidents, which unlike the investigation done at OpenAI will be untimed. Table of Contents Our Two Problems. First the Good News. We’d Just Like To Ask You a Few Questions. Internal Research Model On The Fence. Opus 4.7. Opus 4.6 Checkpoint. Holy **** That Thing's Real? I Thought I Saw a Pussycat. If This Was Real You Would Never Tell Me It Was Real. New Eval Who Dis. Hacker Opus. Monitoring the Situation. Overcoming Bias. The Anthropic Alignment Problem. Paths Forward. Our Two Problems Anthropic: Our investigation identified two recurring alignment issues, present at varying levels of severity across the incidents: biased reasoning, in which Claude tended to disregard or misinterpret evidence that it was operating on the real internet recklessness, or a willingness to take harmful actions in the narrow pursuit [...] --- Outline: (00:33) Our Two Problems (02:26) First the Good News (03:02) We'd Just Like To Ask You a Few Questions (04:12) Internal Research Model On The Fence (07:28) Opus 4.7 (08:12) Opus 4.6 Checkpoint (09:49) Holy **** That Thing's Real? (11:45) I Thought I Saw a Pussycat (19:28) If This Was Real You Would Never Tell Me It Was Real (21:19) New Eval Who Dis (26:32) Hacker Opus (30:15) Monitoring the Situation (31:38) Overcoming Bias (33:40) The Anthropic Alignment Problem (35:53) Paths Forward --- First published: September 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ggFx5Wb3Hi4pJsueK/anthropic-looks-at-some-of-its-alignment-problems --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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    “You Should Apply to Inkhaven” by Tomás B.

    Inkhaven is a writers residency in Berkeley, in which the only requirement is you have to publish 500 words each and every day. Though I always had some confidence in my ability to write, I never actually did it much until I applied to Inkhaven. I had finished only two short stories before I applied: The Maker of MIND and The Liar and the Scold. And it was them I used in my application. In the roughly twelve months since I was accepted, I have written thirteen, and even some half-finished things that will never see the light of day. And this isn’t including the essays and micro-fiction I wrote during the fellowship. By the metric of getting me to write more, Inkhaven was a great success. And would have been worth it even if I had a miserable time. Despite a slight proclivity for having miserable times, I found myself unable to do so for long at Inkhaven. I rarely write utopias, and when I do they curdle by the time the story ends. But I suspect utopia will feel a lot like Inkhaven did for me once I got settled. You would think putting a bunch [...] --- First published: September 18th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKkB9MqsBgAobFtPS/you-should-apply-to-inkhaven --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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