A Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment

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Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…

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The Future of AI: It’s About Architecture

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Scaling: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally For much of the past decade, AI progress has been defined by scale: larger models trained on ever greater amounts of data and compute. The paradigm of “more parameters, better performance” has driven notable advances but is now showing signs of saturation. Empirical scaling laws, such as those identified…

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