❗️Only two days left to apply to the Astra Fellowship!
Apps close EOD SUNDAY May 3rd, AoE. Astra's 5 months, fully funded, @ConstellOrg Berkeley
80%+ of our first cohort now work full-time in AI safety
Mentors include Redwood, AI Futures, TruthfulAI, CoG, IAPS, RAND & more ⏬
🚨New paper!
How safe and aligned is Kimi K2.5?
We found concerning dual-use capabilities, sabotage and self-replication tendencies, political censorship on Chinese-language queries, and potential agentic misuse risks. (1/N)
🚨New paper!
How safe and aligned is Kimi K2.5?
We found concerning dual-use capabilities, sabotage and self-replication tendencies, political censorship on Chinese-language queries, and potential agentic misuse risks. (1/N)
🚀 Applications are now open: Constellation's Astra Fellowship 🚀
Fully funded, 5-month fellowship at our Berkeley research institute. Pair with mentors across empirical AI safety research, strategy, and governance at @ConstellOrg!
📅 Apply by May 3rd (begins Sep 2026)
🔗 https://t.co/pxtOduDBFh
Who has Xi purged from the CCP Central Committee?
Attendance at next week's Fourth Plenum will reveal the extent of his recent "purge surge"
If all rumors are true, only 168/205 members (82%) and 159/171 alternates (93%) will be there
And only 17/44 of PLA members (39%)!
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This took a while to get to the finish line, but it is finally out there!
Why the Decline of Local Media Could Be a Security Risk https://t.co/nPC8AJn8ra via @RANDCorporation
I always say that wargames are half design and half party planning. See below for the party planning part of Schelling and Ferguson's 1961 Berlin Crisis Game.
A translation and analysis of Wushi waiguo zhuan (Account of Foreign Countries in the Wu Period) and Nanzhou yiwu zhi (Record of Unusual Things from Southern Lands) by Andrew Chittick.
If you're curious about China's approach to modern warfare and are thinking through AI issues, I had the chance to talk with some really incredible people at the The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
You can give it a listen here:
https://t.co/5luWhNcuFi
Applications are now open for the 2023 PPNT Boot Camp! Applications are due May 5, but don’t wait. The Boot Camp is open to graduate-level students, postdocs, and professionals, and features #nuclear policy lectures, discussions, debates, and simulations. https://t.co/86yqOMFL4D