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this is an amazing paper on AI persuasion. Large study with 10k+ participants. LLMs cost roughly half as much per converted voter as standard tactics, but only if u can get people to talk to them. Distribution/Reach, not rhetoric, is the real constraint arxiv.org/abs/2505.00036

I was pretty skeptical that this study was worth running, because I thought that *obviously* we would see significant speedup. x.com/METR_Evals/sta…

So much research is being done about LLMs that it's hard to stay on top of the literature. To help with this, I've made a list of all the most important papers from the past 8 years: rtmccoy.com/pubs/ I hope you enjoy!

I think Andrew Lampinen has some of the most consistently sensible takes on AI

My team at AI Security Institute is hiring! This is an awesome opportunity to get involved with cutting-edge scientific research inside government on frontier AI models. I genuinely love my job and the team 🤗 Link: civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… More Info: ⬇️

Our setup: 1. A “teacher” model is finetuned to have a trait (e.g. liking owls) and generates an unrelated dataset (e.g. numbers, code, math) 2. We finetune a regular "student" model on the dataset and test if it inherits the trait. This works for various animals.

They should put these things on the model cards.

Great discussion in Matthew Yglesias 's mailbag today about loss of control risk.