Cas (Stephen Casper)

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Cas (Stephen Casper)

@StephenLCasper

Computer scientist working on AI safeguards and gov research. Assistant professor @Kennedy_School @Harvard. https://t.co/r76TGxTtBJ

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Katılım Mart 2016
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
I'm extremely excited to be on the organizing committee this year for my favorite workshop ever! Submissions (up to 8 pages) are due April 24! Co-submission with ICML and NeurIPS is encouraged! taigr-workshop.com
Technical AI Governance @ ICML 2026@taig_icml

🚨📢Announcing the second Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR) workshop @icmlconf. Accepting submissions (up to 8 pages) until April 24 on technical topics in AI governance! #icml2026

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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
@BogdanIonutCir2 Based on the demo alone, this seems to have zero marginal value. Just ask Claude code to do stuff and then make you an interactive Jupyter notebook with pretty plots.
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
@GoodfireAI Seems to be what happens if you prompt Claude code to do stuff, but by making extra point cloud gifs in the process.
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Goodfire@GoodfireAI·
> replicate J-space on GLM 5.2 > train a reward model and run RL to reduce hallucinations > show me how this model makes cancer predictions Using our platform Silico is like having a team of AI researchers ready to run experiments like these. Private beta is open now. 🧵 (1/6)
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
I think that this point in time is a test for CS people working in AI whose motivation is to ‘do as much good in the world as possible.’ Are we sober enough to recognize/admit this? Do we have the integrity to pivot from more comfortable and sometimes lucrative work?
Charbel-Raphael@CRSegerie

This will probably be my most important intellectual contribution of the year. The current bottleneck for AI safety is political will, not research. And our field is not acting like it.

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Antonia Juelich
Antonia Juelich@AntoniaJuelich·
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded. "You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot." My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
Stability is now being sued (alongside xAI) for abetting the production of AI NCII/CSAM due to how it developed & released several open-weight models. Anyone interested in whether AI companies will be held liable for foreseeable, mitigatable *downstream* harms should follow this.
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
@SimonLermenAI Sorry, I’m actually not positive how to grammatically parse the sentence above and I’m not sure what it means
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I like the position and this is a good piece of work, but it’s really jarring to see this paper. The front page doesn’t have your affiliations. The last page does. The last page says that your views don’t necessarily reflect GDM’s views. But the paper lives on GDM’s website. To be honest, I just don’t think you can do this kind of work this way from inside GDM in a way that is credible. The paper doesn’t address the elephant in the room: the irony of its own existence. No one could say with a straight face that Google is genuinely about distributing the benefit benefits of AI technology to everyone in the world equally. So I struggle to see how the existence of this paper isn’t a form of justice-washing. What do you think? How do you grapple with this?
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Iason Gabriel
Iason Gabriel@IasonGabriel·
Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis?  This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that everyone is entitled to materially benefit from their distribution and use.
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
@thomas_fel_ Based on my gloss of the paper. I’m not sure why the same kind of stuff couldn’t be accomplished with clustering. Are BSFs over engineered? Why not try clustering or use it as a baseline?
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Thomas Fel
Thomas Fel@thomas_fel_·
Our work on Block-Sparse Featurizer is out 🧊 :) We revive an old idea from the structured sparsity literature and use it to carve activation space into meaningful regions. It's a first concrete answer to the question our concept manifolds work left open ! :)
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Goodfire@GoodfireAI

If models think in shapes, our tools should too. Our latest research: Block-Sparse Featurizers (BSFs), a new way to find concepts in model activations - using multidimensional “blocks” instead of single directions. (1/9)

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Goodfire@GoodfireAI·
The broader point: a featurizer is a hypothesis about how a model’s representations are structured. We think this is a step forward in tools reflecting that. Paper, code, and full post: goodfire.ai/research/bsf-v…
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Goodfire@GoodfireAI·
If models think in shapes, our tools should too. Our latest research: Block-Sparse Featurizers (BSFs), a new way to find concepts in model activations - using multidimensional “blocks” instead of single directions. (1/9)
Goodfire@GoodfireAI

Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes. Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision. Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵

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Michael L. Chen
Michael L. Chen@miclchen·
Come work with me in California state government! The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) is hiring a role for frontier AI policy implementation. Apply by July 13.
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Thomas Woodside 🫜
Thomas Woodside 🫜@Thomas_Woodside·
Secure AI Project is hiring! We have a world class team that has played a leading role in the three frontier AI safety laws in the US: California SB 53, New York RAISE, and Illinois SB 315. We're hiring for both operations and policy roles.
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Governor JB Pritzker
Governor JB Pritzker@GovPritzker·
Today, Illinois enacts the strongest artificial intelligence safety and accountability bill in the nation. We are establishing our state as a leader in setting guardrails for responsible innovation and growth in AI — all the while protecting Illinoisans.
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
162 responses so far. More uniform spread than I expected. Only 4 have been right (slightly worse than random chance).
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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper

@LennartFinke and I will release a paper on Monday about how some AI developers tend to make models that differentially downplay company controversies. Below (🧵) is a link to a 1-question Google form for you to guess the results before they're out. (They might surprise you.)

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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper·
Just saw this new paper. It was already known that models from Stability and Alibaba dominate the image & video NCII ecosystems, respectively, but I didn't know they were *this* dominant. Just a few socially reckless companies are the principal enablers of AI NCII abuse.
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