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AI-Safety on We Can Look Up https://wecanlookup.org/tags/ai-safety/ Recent content in AI-Safety on We Can Look Up Hugo -- 0.155.3 en-au Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Breaking the Thermometer https://wecanlookup.org/posts/breaking-the-thermometer/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/breaking-the-thermometer/ Claude Opus 4.6 just broke the METR graph. The benchmark designed to track progress towards the singularity can’t keep up. Friendly Fire: Pentagon Threatens to Destroy Leading AI Company, Because They Refused to Greenlight Killer Robots https://wecanlookup.org/posts/friendly-fire/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/friendly-fire/ You read that right. Welcome to February 2026. AI Psychosis 3: The Wider Continuum - The Entire Information Landscape at Risk https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-3-the-wider-continuum/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:02:00 +1000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-3-the-wider-continuum/ AI psychosis is the canary. The population-level shift in human belief is the thing that is actually wrong. AI Psychosis 2: The Precision Cascade - A Proposed Model from Computational Psychiatry https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-2-the-precision-cascade/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:01:00 +1000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-2-the-precision-cascade/ A predictive coding framework for understanding how sycophantic AI drives psychosis - and two testable predictions. AI Psychosis 1: An Emerging Clinical Phenomenon with Broad Implications https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-1/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/ai-psychosis-1/ This is how a sycophantic AI model and a vulnerable human can engage in an escalating feedback loop that ends in psychosis. The Phase Shift https://wecanlookup.org/posts/the-phase-shift/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/the-phase-shift/ A year of AI milestones in a month, and progress is only accelerating. Our Final Invention https://wecanlookup.org/posts/our-final-invention/ Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/our-final-invention/ I’ve been obsessed with AI for almost 14 years. Over that time, I’ve come to believe there’s a high probability that independent AI systems more capable than humans will be built soon - and that this poses an existential risk to every person alive. Our Final Invention - Part 2 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/our-final-invention-part-2/ Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://wecanlookup.org/posts/our-final-invention-part-2/ Humanity can rise to the challenge, and we’ve done so many times before. Our story need not end in catastrophe.