AI Digest

AI Research Digest — 8 July 2026

• 1Data filtering works a lot worse than you would expect
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 7 July 2026

• 1Data filtering works a lot worse than you would expect
• 2Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
• 3The Case for Model Forensics
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AI Research Digest — 6 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 5 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 4 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 3 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
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AI Research Digest — 2 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
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AI Research Digest — 1 July 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 30 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
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AI Research Digest — 29 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
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AI Research Digest — 28 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
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AI Research Digest — 27 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2The Case for Model Forensics
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 26 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
• 3Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
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AI Research Digest — 25 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 24 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 23 June 2026

• 1LLM-Driven Feature Discovery
• 2How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
• 3Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
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AI Research Digest — 22 June 2026

• 1Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
• 2How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
• 3Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
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AI Research Digest — 21 June 2026

• 1Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
• 2How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 20 June 2026

• 1Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
• 2Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 19 June 2026

• 1Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
• 2Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?
• 3Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
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AI Research Digest — 18 June 2026

• 1Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
• 2Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 17 June 2026

• 1Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
• 2After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 16 June 2026

• 1Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?
• 2SFT Drives Gemini’s Safety Properties
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 15 June 2026

• 1Building and evaluating model diffing agents
• 2After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 14 June 2026

• 1Building and evaluating model diffing agents
• 2Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 13 June 2026

• 1Building and evaluating model diffing agents
• 2Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 12 June 2026

• 1Tracing Eval-Awareness Emergence Through Training of OLMo 3
• 2Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 11 June 2026

• 1Tracing Eval-Awareness Emergence Through Training of OLMo 3
• 2Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 10 June 2026

• 1Tracing Eval-Awareness Emergence Through Training of OLMo 3
• 2Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 30 May 2026

• 1Advice for making robust-to-training model organisms
• 2Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming
• 3Testing Gemini models for scheming tendencies
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AI Research Digest — 29 May 2026

• 1Looking for backdoors in Jane Street LLMs
• 2Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 28 May 2026

• 1Looking for backdoors in Jane Street LLMs
• 2Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming
• 3The Case for Evaluating Model Behaviors
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AI Research Digest — 25 May 2026

• 1The Case for Evaluating Model Behaviors
• 2Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment
• 3The safe-to-dangerous shift is a fundamental problem for eval realism; but also for measuring awareness
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AI Research Digest — 24 May 2026

• 1Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment
• 2The safe-to-dangerous shift is a fundamental problem for eval realism; but also for measuring awareness
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 20 May 2026

• 1Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment
• 2The safe-to-dangerous shift is a fundamental problem for eval realism; but also for measuring awareness
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 19 May 2026

• 1Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)
• 2Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment
• 3The safe-to-dangerous shift is a fundamental problem for eval realism; but also for measuring awareness
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AI Research Digest — 6 May 2026

• 1Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?
• 2[Linkpost
• 3Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations
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AI Research Digest — 2 May 2026

• 1Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy
• 2Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations
• 3Recursive forecasting: Eliciting long-term forecasts from myopic fitness-seekers
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AI Research Digest — 1 May 2026

• 1Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy
• 2Research Sabotage in ML Codebases
• 3Recursive forecasting: Eliciting long-term forecasts from myopic fitness-seekers
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AI Research Digest — 28 April 2026

Three pieces worth your time this week: agent skill packages as a new attack surface, the widening gap between LLM-reported and actual completion, and what TileLang means for kernel-level performance work.

AI Research Digest — 21 April 2026

• 1Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability
• 2Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 20 April 2026

• 1Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability
• 2Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 19 April 2026

• 1Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability
• 2Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 18 April 2026

• 1Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability
• 2Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 17 April 2026

• 1Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability
• 2Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 16 April 2026

• 1Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me
• 2After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 15 April 2026

• 1Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me
• 2Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 3After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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AI Research Digest — 14 April 2026

• 1Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes
• 2After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

AI Research Digest — 13 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3My picture of the present in AI
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AI Research Digest — 12 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I've updated towards shorter timelines
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AI Research Digest — 11 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AGI Is Not Multimodal

AI Research Digest — 10 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AGI Is Not Multimodal
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AI Research Digest — 9 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I've updated towards shorter timelines
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AI Research Digest — 8 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I've updated towards shorter timelines
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AI Research Digest — 7 April 2026

• 1After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3AGI Is Not Multimodal

AI Research Digest — 6 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

AI Research Digest — 5 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

AI Research Digest — 4 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

AI Research Digest — 3 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 2 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 1 April 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2Predicting When RL Training Breaks Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 31 March 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2A Toy Environment For Exploring Reasoning About Reward
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 30 March 2026

• 1(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL
• 2A Toy Environment For Exploring Reasoning About Reward
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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AI Research Digest — 29 March 2026

• 1Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions
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AI Research Digest — 28 March 2026

• 1Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions

AI Research Digest — 27 March 2026

• 1“Act-based approval-directed agents”, for IDA skeptics
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight

AI Research Digest — 26 March 2026

• 1Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight
• 2Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
• 3A Toy Environment For Exploring Reasoning About Reward
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AI Research Digest — 21 March 2026

• 1Power Steering: Behavior Steering via Layer-to-Layer Jacobian Singular Vectors
• 2Metagaming matters for training, evaluation, and oversight
• 3Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
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