Can Group Selection Protect Against AI-Induced Cultural Collapse?
Many—including myself—have worried that heavy reliance on generative AI could lead to reduced cultural variation. For example, stories written with AI assistance tend to have more …
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When does competition lead to recognisable value?
Beren Millidge gave an interesting talk at the Post-AGI Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) asking what happens to human values in a world of many powerful AIs. Many have worried that this …
Some Open Problems in Technical Multi-Agent AI Governance
From Reuel and coauthors (2024): Evaluating and monitoring agentic systems. User customizability, such as through prompting or the integration of new tools, makes it particularly …
Chalmers on Propositional Interpretability
In a new paper, David Chalmers argues for the importance of “propositional interpretability” for AI —i.e. of understanding AI systems’ mechanisms in terms of …
Agent Infrastructure and Cultural Evolution
There’s a new paper on agent infrastructure—“technical systems and shared protocols external to agents that are designed to mediate and influence their interactions …