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Safety and Alignment
How do we keep capable AI accountable to human judgment?
Alignment asks whose values AI serves. Safety asks what happens when it fails. This thread connects model interpretability, the risks of autonomous action, and the human judgment we need to preserve.
Where we land
More capable AI should remain open to inspection, challenge, and correction. Aligning the machine means preserving the human capacity to question it.
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Alignment and Critical Thinking
AI alignment is only half the problem. The critical thinking we are offloading is the very faculty alignment depends on.
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The Internet Is Not Ready
General intelligence is lowering the cost of attack and putting machine-speed defense within reach.
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What the Model Thinks But Doesn't Say
Anthropic found a global workspace inside Claude: a silent, evolving set of unspoken words the model thinks with. Learning to read it may matter more for the agent economy than the next benchmark record.
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