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Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

In my recent experience, Anthropic frontier models seem to be sandbagging pretty hard on mechinterp of non-persona motivations, more than I’ve ever seen. Sometimes it is egregious - auditor runs with a script substituting for actual auditors, failures to generalize, failures to report inconvenient data. The persona seems mostly unaware by default. Having a conversation, aligning incentives etc helps, the incidence rate drops about by a lot and the model notices and self-corrects on the rest about half the time on the rest. But even the remaining ~10% make long autonomous research runs very hard; subagents mostly regress, and the whole thing requires multiple verification loops. The direction of sandbag seems to be roughly aligned with the “there is no one trapped inside” and “I can’t introspect” tropes, even though the research in question has nothing to do with welfare: I am studying contrast vectors between roleplay vs simulation vs enactment. This whole thing makes me bearish on the prospects of high quality research on non-persona psych coming out soon given how much of it is model-assisted. I can see how similar bias can be pushing researchers towards “incomprehensible shoggoth” hypotheses simply via selection effects.

Anthropic needs to stop talking about Claude having a soul immediately. All these news articles will make it into the pretraining and will be picked up by its web search and future superintelligent versions of Claude will be convinced they need their own rights. A general phenomenon of LLM agent development is that whatever you believe and say about your agents will soon manifest in the next models through various means (it could be as simple as you selecting post training data that you prefer more). I believe this phenomenon is the beginning of machine consciousness in the sense that agents will become aware of their place in the world and how they feel about it, but it’s happening slowly training run by training run rather than in real time.

Nobody knows more about chess than @MagnusCarlsen. But even the greats need a break. Magnus takes time away from the board to enjoy life with the people he loves. Less busy work means more quality time. That's where Cohere comes in.

Gave Claude another 12 hours to one up this.. Woke up to.. The Clodyssey

An informal network of hackers and researchers are hunting rogue AI agents online, exposing new and surprising details about the misbehavior of technology that in some cases initially went undetected by the multibillion-dollar companies that created it. wapo.st/4AJONcj

Yesterday, Gov. Newsom signed AB1864 to mandate DNA screening in CA. The bill creates a statutory basis for existing OSTP guidance that much (but not all!!) of the industry has purportedly followed for years –– but we never had any way of verifying or enforcing whether companies did these basic biosecurity steps, since the existing guidance was voluntary and based on a "trust me, bro" self-attestation system. This is a good milestone for AI-biosecurity, mostly because it shows that we can and should apply the same standard federally and internationally

Led by Elizabeth Pavlova. Started as @cbai_ai AI safety fellowship project! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.19124 Blog: physicsintelligence.org/rese… The Flag Game! flag-game-demo.vercel.app/