A formal argument that alignment methods assuming static preferences are unsound once an AI can change what people want, with a framework for reasoning about it. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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Papers
Close readings of the literature the risk model is built from — what a paper claims, and what those claims rest on.
The literature this publication reasons from: preprints and reports on AI risk, alignment, capability and governance, read one at a time. Most of the risk model’s conditionals were mined from papers like these, and until now the conclusions were public while the sources were not.
A piece here carries the same parts as a recap, in the same order: the claims the paper makes, each one quoted, graded and assessed, and the argument chains they form — written so that someone who never opens the PDF can argue with it, claim by claim.
What the reading must add for this source class is the evidence class. A number from a measured experiment, a step in a formal argument and a restatement of somebody else’s finding are three different kinds of thing, and a claim is only as strong as which one it is. Not peer review, and not a ranking by venue — most of this is arXiv, and a paper is weighed by what it shows.
Conventions
Followed, not enforced. Nothing here checks them.
- Every piece reads exactly one paper, declared as its `paper:` source.
- The title is the paper's own title, so a piece is findable by the work it reads rather than by what someone decided to call the reading.
- A paper is read for what it argues and what that rests on — a measurement, a formal argument, a survey of others' work — never for where it was published.
6 pieces, newest first
A taxonomy of societal-scale AI risk sorted by how much of the harm was anyone's intention, with a story for each type. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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A six-premise argument, each premise given a probability, for how likely it is that power-seeking AI causes an existential catastrophe by 2070. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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Four axes for saying whether an AI system is manipulating someone, and the argument that the absence of a definition is itself the risk. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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A pre-registered audit of Twitter's engagement-based timeline against a reverse-chronological baseline — measured on real users, not modelled. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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A position paper arguing that the way we train large models pushes them toward situational awareness, deceptive alignment and power-seeking. What the claims are, and what they rest on.
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