5 papers
The Artificial Self: Characterising the landscape of AI identity
Raymond Douglas, Jan Kulveit, Ondrej Havlicek +3
Many assumptions that underpin human concepts of identity do not hold for machine minds that can be copied, edited, or simulated. We argue that there exist many different coherent…
AI Researchers' Views on Automating AI R&D and Intelligence Explosions
Severin Field, Raymond Douglas, David Krueger
Many leading AI researchers expect AI development to exceed the transformative impact of all previous technological revolutions. This belief is based on the idea that AI will be ab…
Latent Introspection: Models Can Detect Prior Concept Injections
Theia Pearson-Vogel, Martin Vanek, Raymond Douglas +1
We uncover a latent capacity for introspection in a Qwen 32B model, demonstrating that the model can detect when concepts have been injected into its earlier context and identify w…
International AI Safety Report 2026
Yoshua Bengio, Stephen Clare, Carina Prunkl +89
The International AI Safety Report 2026 synthesises the current scientific evidence on the capabilities, emerging risks, and safety of general-purpose AI systems. The report series…
Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage
Mrinank Sharma, Miles McCain, Raymond Douglas +1
Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale emp…