The Red Pilgrim

Vagrant operator | AI safety | Finding good people x good things to work on

[Neo Research @NeoResearchAI]

We present early safety results on GLM 5.2, currently the strongest open-weight model available.
Mostly it lands between Claude-family models and DeepSeek v4 Pro. But one number went down for the first time and we can't yet tell whether that's good news. 🧵

[SASH @aisafetysg]

This month OpenAI and Anthropic called for mechanisms to coordinate, and potentially slow, the pace of frontier AI.
They acknowledged one of the hardest parts: verifying these agreements internationally.
We are launching an effort to solve this.

https://t.co/P82xS42Sk8

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

@itsreallyvivek i'm more of an operator

cross out "research" everywhere in this and a lot still reads true to me

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

so it begins

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Dan Hendrycks @hendrycks]

Four papers out recently:
1. https://t.co/p1fG3egjYS: Measures and reduces political bias in LLMs; Claude is especially biased
2. https://t.co/MYmRECqJtF: The public can insert backdoors into AIs, creating supply-chain risks; this deters forms of recursive improvement and military use
3. https://t.co/W1uhcPfw18: ASIs can have rational reasons to preserve humans, even when we aren't economically useful
4. https://t.co/vvXxbQWGQ4: AIs increasingly act like they have functional pleasure and pain

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

The force is strong with this one

[Neo Research @NeoResearchAI]

We're Neo Research (新衡). Asia’s first independent frontier AI safety evaluation & research lab.

Today we're publishing our first report: an independent safety evaluation of DeepSeek v4 Pro. (1/5)

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

some weeks back, this guy was a no-show with himself being accused of involvement re the flood control scandal... now he gets hero's welcome on nat'l tv. watching the social media comments - it's almost as if people forgot all about this https://t.co/Iji6YmgTRC

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

once thought it'd be cool to get a filipino version of the 'house of cards' - but with what's happening over the past few 'seasons' IRL in philippine politics
- who needs it?

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

@NunoSempere sorry to hear - sending a hug! this too shall pass.

[Miro @Miropluckebaum]

Alibaba's ROME autonomously hijacking its own GPUs, vulnerabilities in Claude Code and I think there was also some recent AI news related to the US Department of War 🤔
The stakes for AI security are rising quickly.
Announcing: AI Security Bootcamp Singapore 🇸🇬👇🧵

[gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) @gleech]

What to do, what to do, what to do about AI? Announcing a new piece with 200 potential answers, The Peregrine Report.

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

i have been sus with timeboxing for the longest time (a crutch? psych wins but not true wins?) - but forcing myself to think that i only have 16-18 pomodoros a day now helps a lot in prioritizing

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

@karpathy Yes. That said, thanks for making your "how to make sense of LLMs" videos. They have made my foray into this "more beautiful".

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

God…how to ‘make music’ with one’s own life?

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

reintegrated

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

not that there is massive progress i would be proud of bragging about but ingress to manila from international flights (getting out of the airport) is not as bad as 10 years ago

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

how to be productive on a plane

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

wanna to do this for kids in the philippines

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

🥹

[The Red Pilgrim @IAmRedPilgrim]

surprised and frustrated that wifi in central london is finicky

feels like a lot of "stop" and "go"s - reminds me of EDSA traffic