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YouTube link How does game theory work when everyone is a computer program who can read everyone else’s source code? This is the problem of ‘program equilibria’. In this episode, I talk with Caspar Oesterheld on work he’s done on equilibria of programs that simulate each other, and how robust...
YouTube link In this episode, Guive Assadi argues that we should give AIs property rights, so that they are integrated in our system of property and come to rely on it. The claim is that this means that AIs would not kill or steal from humans, because that would undermine...
I’ve recently read the book Inventing Temperature, and very much enjoyed it. It’s a book that’s basically about the following problem: there was a time in which humans had not yet built accurate thermometers, and therefore weren’t able to scientifically investigate the phenomenon of temperature, which would require measuring it....
YouTube link When METR says something like “Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% time horizon of 4 hours and 50 minutes”, what does that mean? In this episode David Rein, METR researcher and co-author of the paper “Measuring AI ability to complete long tasks”, talks about METR’s work on measuring...
tl;dr Here’s a pdf. The story of me making it is slightly fun. Augustine of Hippo, a prominent Christian of the 4th and 5th centuries who is recognized as a saint by many churches, wrote many things, including a work known as the Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love (or...
The 8th iteration of the Machine Learning Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Program has come to a close, and we want to share the research projects our scholars have been working on this Summer. This cohort had 98 scholars who conducted research with 57 top mentors in the fields of...
YouTube link Could AI enable a small group to gain power over a large country, and lock in their power permanently? Often, people worried about catastrophic risks from AI have been concerned with misalignment risks. In this episode, Tom Davidson talks about a risk that could be comparably important: that...