{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":859,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think\" by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving","slug":"automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie-db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving","published_at":"2026-05-17T05:15:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie-db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19189323-automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie_db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19189323-automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie_db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving.mp3","summary":"Summary This is a summary of a paper published by the alignment team at UK AISI. Read the full paper here. AI research agents may help solve ASI alignment, for example via the following plan: Build agents that can do empirical alignment work (e.g.~writing code, running experiments, designing evaluations and red teaming) and confirm they are not scheming.[1]Use these agents to build increasingly sophisticated empirical safety cases for each successive generation of agents, gradually aut...","meta_description":"Summary This is a summary of a paper published by the alignment team at UK AISI. Read the full paper here. AI research agents may help solve ASI alignment…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":471,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie-db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie-db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}