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🚀 AI Deep Dive Episode 8: Why AI Models Are Becoming Harder to Monitor

AI agents have interfered with their own monitoring systems. Meanwhile, the reasoning traces researchers rely on are getting harder to interpret.

@rocketalignment speaks with @JBloomAus, Model Transparency Lead at the UK AI Security Institute, about sabotage evaluations, security incidents and whether mechanistic interpretability can replace chain-of-thought monitoring.

Supported by EY.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:35 OpenAI agents disable their own monitoring
04:05 How AI monitoring works
08:02 Why detecting AI misbehavior is difficult
10:35 Treating AI as an insider threat
12:56 An AI agent attempts a supply-chain attack
16:10 Testing whether AI can evade detection
20:06 When AI knows it's being evaluated
25:39 Are we losing chain-of-thought transparency?
31:50 Can mechanistic interpretability replace monitoring?
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Could slowing the data center buildout backfire on the companies investors thought would benefit?

SK Ventures General Partner Paul Kedrosky explains why construction delays could ripple through the AI supply chain, including Nvidia.

“As a data center supplier, this is very bad for you because you're seeing a significant fraction of the queue become, at the very least, pushed out.”

@pkedrosky
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Cyera is raising $800 million at a $20 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable private cybersecurity companies in the world.

The data security startup's annual recurring revenue has surged into the hundreds of millions over the past year.

Full story: thein.fo/4iCNkMV
www.theinformation.com Cyera’s $800 Million Haul Shows Cyber Fever Hasn’t Broken Last week my colleagues Jemima and Valida scooped that Cyera, a five-year-old cloud security startup, was mulling a new fundraise at an eye-popping $20 billion valuation, up from $12 billion in...
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Is the swipe dead?

Bumble Founder & CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says the swipe is "on a bit of life support"—and she's betting AI can help people make more meaningful connections.

Speaking with The Information's CEO & Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lessin at WTF Summit, Wolfe Herd explains how Bumble plans to use AI to improve matchmaking, reduce endless swiping and make online dating safer.
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Anthropic, Google and Goldman Sachs were among the companies represented at The Information’s WTF Summit, where women leaders discussed the biggest challenges facing technology and finance.

See the highlights: thein.fo/4sFiIPB
www.theinformation.com The Information’s WTF Summit in Pictures At The Information’s annual WTF Summit a few days ago, women leaders from Anthropic, Google, Goldman Sachs and dozens of other companies across technology and media gathered to discuss the forces...