Tag: academic

  • The Register: When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/when_ai_is_trained_for/ Source: The Register Title: When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent Feedly Summary: We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it Opinion Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Scott Aaronson

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/scott-aaronson/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Scott Aaronson Feedly Summary: Given a week or two to try out ideas and search the literature, I’m pretty sure that Freek and I could’ve solved this problem ourselves. Instead, though, I simply asked GPT5-Thinking. After five minutes, it gave me something confident, plausible-looking, and (I…