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We're launching the AE Alignment Podcast, a new series from AE Studio's alignment research team where we talk with researchers about their work on AI safety and alignment. In our first episode, host James Bowler sits down with Alex McKenzie to discuss Endogenous Steering Resistance (ESR), a phenomenon where large...

This research was completed for LASR Labs 2025 by Alex McKenzie, Urja Pawar, Phil Blandfort and William Bankes. The team was supervised by Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, with additional guidance from Ekdeep Singh Lubana and support from David Krueger. The full paper can be found here. TLDR – We train activation probes...