TL;DR: This post presents three case studies of automated alignment research runs at Arcadia Impact. We use these case studies to emphasise the following takeaways: 1. It is hard to parse auto-research runs! Each run produces a couple of hundred pull requests of jargon-dense agent output. When researchers look through...
Preamble The preamble is less useful for the typical AlignmentForum/LessWrong reader, who may want to skip to Adversaria vs Basinland section. On 28th of October 2025, Geoffrey Irving, Chief Scientist of the UK AI Security Institute, gave a keynote talk (slides) at the Alignment Conference. The conference was organised by...
Introduction and summary This retrospective focuses on the 4-month MATS extension phase (referred to as "MATS 5.1") that ran from April 1 to July 25, 2024, and presents findings gathered from an end-of-extension survey as well as follow-up interviews and surveys ~5 months after the program. Main changes from the...