Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): In a move that is both fascinating and viscerally unsettling, AI world model company Odyssey took a simulation of a fruit fly's brain, Google's connectome map of a fly's actual neurons and connections

Claude AI discovered that NIST's ECDSA cryptographic seeds were generated from Unix timestamps using lrand48 RNG, solving a decades-old mystery in cryptography.

The article analyzes theoretical confusion around AI corrigibility concepts and identifies deficiencies in existing definitions that are fundamental to AI alignment research.

Analyzes how undisclosed internal AI models create dangerous information gaps between developers and the public, potentially misleading regulators about true frontier capabilities.

Projection sampling preserves alignment gains from fine-tuning while reducing the capability loss typically associated with safety-focused training.

Explores connections between imperfect recall games, anthropics, decision theory, and reinforcement learning through the Sleeping Beauty problem framework.