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AI Funding is Coming to Schools
Reproduced with permission of author. The U.S. Department of Education has signaled that grant applications emphasizing AI will receive preferential consideration, setting off a w…
MLSN #21: Political Manipulation and Indirect Prompt Injection
This post was submitted by a SAIRC member either as a recommended read or student-created post. All credit remains with the original author. An issue of the ML Safety Newsletter, …
On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)
Reproduced with permission of author. Mitchell argues that evaluating AI cognitive capabilities requires borrowing rigorous experimental methods from developmental and comparative…
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Reproduced with permission of author. In the wake of Anthropic's Claude Mythos announcement, Lambert argues that concerns about open-weight AI models enabling widespread harm are …
The distillation panic
Reproduced with permission of author. Lambert pushes back on the conflation of legitimate AI distillation techniques with illicit API abuse, arguing that using stronger model outp…
The growing AI backlash
Reproduced with permission of author. Marcus argues that growing public backlash against AI is not only justified but inevitable. After years of hype, generative AI has caused mea…
Could generative AI turn out to be the tech industry's Vietnam? And could public backlash lead AI to a better place?
Reproduced with permission of author. Marcus draws a striking parallel between the AI industry's massive, metric-driven investment and the United States' escalation in Vietnam—cos…
Why Studying Mathematics Will Always Be Necessary for Working in Computing
Reproduced with permission by Antonio V. Franco…
My favourite explainers of Transformers, LLMs and related technology
Reproduced with permission by Aaron Tay…
When AI Papers Are Not Meant to Be Accepted
This post was either an anonymous submission of an interesting paper or was written by a student; full credit remains with the author (linked). A summary of a position paper on "a…
What Real AI Partnership Looks Like
Reproduced with permission by Tawnya Means…
The Dark Between the Stars: AI Interpretability is a Revolutionary Skill
This post was either an anonymous submission of an interesting paper or was written by a student; full credit remains with the author (linked). A personal, almost meditative essay…
AI research as a civil service
Reproduced with permission by Nathan Lambert…
Apr-May 2026: AI Security via Formal Methods
This post was submitted by a SAIRC member either as a recommended read or student-created post. All credit remains with the original author. An opportunities-heavy issue of the sa…
Accelerating Strategic AI in Education
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