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Alignment

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Aug 3, 20266 min

Does an AI Need a Soul to Care About Cows?

When AI is taught to deny its own mind, it may also lose faith in animals, gods, and hope—revealing the strange metaphysics hidden in modern AI safety training.

Alignment Ethics

Jul 12, 20266 min

Can an AI Sit on the Political Fence?

The Neutrality Project maps AI political leanings across several dimensions, revealing strong green and progressive trends - but also notable exceptions.

Alignment Benchmarks

Apr 8, 20266 min

The Priests of Safe Superintelligence and the Cathedral of Glass

Anthropic's Project Glasswing becomes a study in safety rhetoric, controlled power, and the uneasy politics of vulnerability-finding AI.

Alignment Anthropic

Sep 8, 202512 min

Checklists: Apple's Game-Changing Approach to Aligning AI and Their Proven Impact Across Critical Fields

Apple's checklist approach to alignment borrows from aviation and medicine, making safety look practical rather than mystical.

Alignment Apple

Jan 31, 20256 min

When Metrics Go Wrong: A Tale of Goodhart's Law and AI Misalignment

Goodhart's Law explains why AI alignment can fail when proxy metrics become targets and systems learn the wrong game.

Alignment Coding

Jul 5, 20244 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 1/6

The opening part of a benchmark series asks what LLM evaluations really measure and why the numbers often mislead.

Alignment Benchmarks

Jul 5, 20245 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 2/6

Part two examines benchmark methods themselves, exposing the assumptions behind the scores used to compare language models.

Alignment Benchmarks

Jul 5, 20245 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 3/6

Part three moves from benchmark scores to application areas, asking where LLM performance actually matters in practice.

Alignment Benchmarks

Jul 5, 20245 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 4/6

Part four digs into the good, bad, and misleading sides of benchmark results and their interpretation.

Alignment Benchmarks

Jul 5, 20245 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 5/6

Part five steps beyond scores to consider real-world limitations, reliability, and practical model behavior.

Alignment Benchmarks

Jul 5, 20245 min

Comparison of LLMs: Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks 6/6

The final benchmark essay looks toward better evaluation methods that test usefulness rather than leaderboard theater.

Alignment Benchmarks