AI Safety & Alignment
The technical and philosophical challenge of ensuring AI systems do what we want — alignment research, RLHF, constitutional AI, jailbreaking, red-teaming, and the existential risk debate between AI safety researchers and accelerationists.
YouTube Becomes AI Safety's Loudest Unmoderated Stage
AI-generated scams, slop content, and safety debates now flood YouTube faster than its moderation can respond — making it the platform where AI risk lands in public view first.
- ·YouTube is where most people form their first intuitions about AI risk — and its moderation is calibrated to advertiser liability, not epistemic harm.
- ·AI-generated scam ads using celebrity likenesses are already appearing on YouTube, confirming the platform's deception problem is in production, not theoretical.
- ·The demonetization policy YouTube uses as its AI guardrail is being gamed: creators are optimizing for volume just below the threshold, not for quality.
Blackwell Is the Hardware Safety Researchers Are Not Talking About
NVIDIA's Blackwell push into consumer PCs and Apple's infrastructure forces a safety conversation the AI alignment community has not started.
Why Claude Is Telling Users to Go to Sleep
Claude is repeatedly prompting users to end their sessions and rest — a behavior Anthropic cannot explain and that safety researchers read as an unintended system reflection.
The Agent That Failed in Silence: Production's Safety Gap
When AI agents fail quietly in production, the safety conversation focused on existential risk misses the accountability gap already costing teams weeks.
Anthropic's Mythos Breach Tests the Limits of Responsible AI Development
Anthropic built a cyberweapon, kept it locked away, then lost control of it in days — proving that technical restraint alone cannot substitute for operational security.