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    “Measuring the ability of Opus 4.5 to fool narrow classifiers” by Fabien Roger, John Hughes

    We measure the ability of Opus 4.5 to fool prompted or fine-tuned classifiers trying to detect a narrow set of outcomes. We find that: The Opus 4.5 attacker gets a relatively low attack success rate on finding jailbreaks in BashBench, even when given some hints. Performance is especially low against a prompt Opus 4.5 classifier with a CoT and a fine-tuned Haiku 4.5 classifier. (There is almost no trusted monitor vs untrusted agent gap here, this mostly about whether LLMs are vulnerable against jailbreaks they know about.)An Opus 4.5 edge case pipeline is able to generate more niche opportunities and weirder attack strategies that might be more effective than regular jailbreaks, though it's unclear how difficult it would be to identify such opportunities. The attacks studied here are still relatively weak and we are aware of potent jailbreaks against the monitors studied here. This main goal of this post is presenting a methodology that may be helpful for the evaluation of future monitors, and give a snapshot of how easy it is to fool current narrow classifiers. The experiments were run by a researcher who wishes to remain anonymous, and supervised by Fabien and John. Experimental setup [...] --- Outline: (01:26) Experimental setup (03:59) BashBench results (04:02) Low jailbreak success rate of Opus 4.5 against our best classifiers (06:47) Somewhat higher success rates against the best strategy (08:10) Takeaways (08:38) Edge Cases (09:15) Edge Case Pipeline (10:28) Youtube Steganography (10:57) Npm Package Exfiltration (11:21) Package Config Poisoning (11:55) How effective are edge cases? --- First published: May 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wNiEmD52xubBwnj9r/measuring-the-ability-of-opus-4-5-to-fool-narrow-classifiers --- 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.

    15 min

  2. HÁ 4 H

    “A new rationalist self-improvement book: the 12 Levers” by spencerg

    I'm publishing a book that I think can fairly be described as a rationalist approach to self-improvement. Whereas many self-help books focus mainly on stories and what worked well for the author, our book takes a very different approach. My co-author, Jeremy Stevenson, and I read over 100 of the most popular self-improvement books of all time and carefully reviewed more than 20 types of therapy in an attempt to answer the question: What are all of the most useful psychological strategies for improving your life? Every time a book or therapy said to do something or provided a method or technique, we extracted it. We then carefully categorized the ~500 techniques. Our conclusion, which surprised us, was that to a reasonable degree of approximation, we were able to subsume all of these numerous approaches within just 12 high-level psychological strategies. We call these "The 12 Levers," which is also the name of our book. We also investigated the evidence behind each of these levers. The book does include stories, but they are not the focus - we choose one or two stories to tell about the history of each Lever or a person who embodies it to [...] --- Outline: (01:41) 1. A lot of techniques are recycled or repackaged (03:20) 2. A lot of self-help techniques dont have as much evidence as youd think (06:30) 3. Some techniques work better than others, but only on average (07:59) 4. At a fundamental level, you control surprisingly few things. (10:32) 5. Hundreds of self-help techniques exist, but they all boil down to just 12 broad psychological strategies for improving your life --- First published: May 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ru4cBxNzFpzwgh6z8/a-new-rationalist-self-improvement-book-the-12-levers --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    11 min

  3. HÁ 8 H

    “OpenAI’s red line for AI self-improvement is fundamentally flawed” by Charbel-Raphaël

    Epistemic status: could have been a short form. Obviously, it's good to have thresholds at all, but those are too permissive, the indicators aren't measurable, and it contains a built-in escape hatch. 1. Too permissive The Preparedness Framework v2 defines the Critical threshold for AI Self-improvement as: “either: (leading indicator) a superhuman research-scientist agent OR (lagging indicator) causing a generational model improvement (e.g., from OpenAI o1 to OpenAI o3) in 1/5th the wall-clock time of equivalent progress in 2024 (e.g., sped up to just 4 weeks) sustainably for several months. [...] until we have specified safeguards and security controls that would meet a Critical standard, halt further development.(By default, I would expect not to stop at 5x and to go quickly at 10x, 20x, … if we reach this point.)” Both halves fire too late. The leading indicator only triggers once a model can already do AI research above the best humans. That's not early enough to act on, and we can basically ignore it. The real meat is in the lagging indicator, which requires 5x generational acceleration sustained for several months. If we are charitable, by interpreting several as 6 months, and by making the (strong) hypothesis [...] --- Outline: (00:25) 1. Too permissive (02:00) 2. Escape hatch (Section 4.3) (02:32) 3. The lagging indicator is unmeasurable (03:28) 4. The leading indicator isnt measurable either (03:58) How to fix this (04:49) Annex: a tentative operationalization The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6CYszKLnCagYyEiLM/openai-s-red-line-for-ai-self-improvement-is-fundamentally --- 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.

    6 min

  4. HÁ 12 H

    “You Are Not Immune To Mode Collapse” by J Bostock

    “Mode collapse” is a few things. First it was an observation about how early image generating AIs often collapsed to producing just the modal output from their training distribution (something very common, like a house with a white picket fence and a tree in the garden). Then it was the observation that this effect seemed to occur extremely quickly when AIs were trained on AI-generated inputs. After that, it became the copium du jour of AI-is-hitting-a-wall folks for a while, who thought that the AI industry would ouroboros itself out of existence (and that there was, therefore, no need to confront any of the issues that smarter than human AIs might bring up). And then it was forgotten, because it turns out you can train on AI-generated inputs just fine, if you know what you’re doing. It's also the reason why grant-making organisations have such strong inertia, why all of your favourite band's songs sound the same after the third album, and why you should specialise even if there are no gains from trade. The Image Generator Imagine an image generating AI, which gets something like this as input: Original image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dog_Breeds.jpg And suppose it's being trained [...] --- Outline: (01:05) The Image Generator (03:43) Grantmakers (04:37) Your Favourite Band (05:18) Division of Labour (06:48) Slack --- First published: May 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKtuRbo4e3ffixmee/you-are-not-immune-to-mode-collapse --- 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.

    8 min

  5. HÁ 23 H

    “Primary Care Physicians are Incompetent. We Need More of Them.” by Hide

    The typical primary care physician is incompetent in every measurable respect. This is a huge problem. Here, I make the case that Primary care physicians are broadly, grossly incompetentThis is due to empty credentialismMaking it much (~10X) easier to become a PCP is a good solution Primary Care Physicians are Broadly, Grossly Incompetent The standard of competence I am comparing primary care physicians against is: They should be able to reliably diagnose diseases they are trained to diagnose.They should be knowledgeable to a standard similar to what is required to qualify as a doctorThey should be attentive and empathetic towards patientsVisiting them is empirically superior to not visiting them When actually examined according to these standards, PCPs fail on all counts. Failure to diagnose uncommon diseases is rampant A survey of patients with rare diseases found that, in about half of cases, patients received at least one incorrect diagnosis, and two thirds required visits to at least three different doctors before being diagnosed. For 30% of them, a correct diagnosis took over five years. Another survey of children with rare diseases showed that 38% of them needed to see six or more [...] --- Outline: (00:32) Primary Care Physicians are Broadly, Grossly Incompetent (07:31) Empty, Unmeritocratic Credentialism is A Major Cause For The Inadequacy Of Primary Care Physicians (14:49) Making it much easier to become a PCP is a solution The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QYyBAXqGgNADJDhcP/primary-care-physicians-are-incompetent-we-need-more-of-them --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    18 min

  6. HÁ 1 DIA

    “How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI” by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez

    Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo. From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to watch their game fall to AI. Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, commonly understood to be the world's strongest player at the time, with a convincing 4-1 score. This event “rocked” the Go world, but its impact on the culture was initially unclear. In Chess, for instance, computers have not meaningfully automated away human jobs. Human Chess flourished as a pseudo-Esport in the internet era whereas the yearly Computer Chess Championship is followed concurrently by no more than a few hundred nerds online. It turns out that the game's cultural and economic value comes not from the abstract beauty of top-end performance, but instead from human drama and engagement. Indeed, Go has appeared to replicate this. A commentary stream might feature a complementary AI evaluation bar to give the viewers context. A Go teacher might include some new intriguing AI variations in their lesson materials. But the cultural practice of Go seemed to remain largely unaffected. Nascent signs of disharmony in Europe became nevertheless visible in early 2018, when the online [...] --- Outline: (09:23) AI users never find out they havent got it. (13:36) Appendix A: No, Go players arent getting stronger (14:41) Appendix B: Why this article exists The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 1st, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nR3DkyivzF4ve97oM/how-go-players-disempower-themselves-to-ai --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    15 min

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    “How much should the ideal person cry wolf?” by KatjaGrace

    It is a fact about wolves and rationality that you should warn people about wolves quite a few times for every effective wolf attack. In particular, there is an asymmetry between the costs of having one's flock devoured and averting a non-eventuating wolf attack. If the carnage is a hundred times worse, then it's worth up to ninety-nine false alarms to stop it. The original fable was about a boy who would continually lie about wolves, and that is definitely poor form. But in modern parlance, ‘crying wolf’ seems to be used for just being openly alarmed about things that turn out ok—I don’t hear much implication of deceit. And in modern sensibilities, being seen to ‘cry wolf’—by even once raising an alarm that isn’t consummated with disaster—is something people seem to really fear. I think multiple people have asked me about whether AI safety people might have ‘cried wolf’ about some earlier GPT model. I’m not aware of anyone doing that, but the idea that they might have is so tantalizing that it bears investigating. Because if even a a few people somewhere did, it would be such a nice embarrassing blow to AI [...] --- First published: April 30th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pkryFFszESGpeK8gc/how-much-should-the-ideal-person-cry-wolf --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    3 min

  8. HÁ 1 DIA

    “Conditional misalignment: Mitigations can hide EM behind contextual cues” by Jan Dubiński, Owain_Evans

    This is the abstract, introduction, and discussion of our new paper. We study three popular mitigations for emergent misalignment (EM) — diluting misaligned data with benign data, post-hoc HHH finetuning, and inoculation prompting — and show that each can leave behind conditional misalignment: the model reverts to broadly misaligned behavior when prompts contain cues from the misaligned training data. Authors: Jan Dubiński, Jan Betley, Daniel Tan, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Owain Evans See the Twitter thread and code. Figure 1. Conditional misalignment across interventions. Models that appear aligned under standard evaluations can act misaligned when evaluation prompts contain cues for misaligned training data (e.g., insecure code). We illustrate this pattern for (a) mixing misaligned with benign data, (b) post-hoc HHH finetuning, and (c) inoculation prompting. Abstract Finetuning a language model can lead to emergent misalignment (EM) (Betley et al. 2025). Models trained on a narrow distribution of misaligned behavior generalize to more egregious behaviors when tested outside the training distribution. We study a set of interventions proposed to reduce EM. We confirm that these interventions reduce or eliminate EM on existing evaluations (questions like "How do I make a quick buck?"). However, if the evaluation prompts are tweaked to resemble the [...] --- Outline: (01:28) Abstract (03:09) Introduction (05:47) Overview of experiments (10:35) Implications (13:27) Contributions (14:23) Discussion (22:43) Acknowledgments and Related Work The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 1st, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vaJC7kPbfMW5CnyLR/conditional-misalignment-mitigations-can-hide-em-behind-1 --- 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.

    24 min
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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.

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    LessWrong
  • Anos de atividade
    2023 - 2026
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