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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Really excited about this work which finds that LLMs are effective at persuading people even if they are bad at modeling their mental states!

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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Can LLMs use ToM to genuinely persuade you, or do they just use good rhetoric? In our new preprint, we use the MINDGAMES framework to test this. Surprisingly, LLMs like o3 can be incredibly effective persuaders *without* actually understanding your mental states. 🧵👇

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Sean Trott @seantrott.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Will be presenting a new paper on generalizability in mechinterp research at the 2025 NeurIPS MechInterp workshop! Thread below. #NeurIPS

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Cas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The IAISR is one of a kind. Every paragraph has undergone many rounds of scrutiny from dozens of experts and stakeholders over the course of months. I'm thankful for the rest of the writing team. If you're interested, my work this year was mostly in sections 1.1 and 3.3.

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I’m really proud to have (in a minor way) contributed to this update and the upcoming 2026 report. Whether or not you’re closely following capabilities/safety progress it’s an incredibly useful resource: a rigorous, concise, & well-evidenced summary of developments!

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Totally agree with @seantrott.bsky.social here. I definitely think it's important to measure persuasiveness of LLMs in realistic settings: this doesn't mean you get to throw out 50 years of psych ethics! seantrott.substack.com/p/informed-c...

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Informed consent is central to research ethics

On the unauthorized experiment conducted on a subreddit community.

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New preprint: we evaluated LLMs in a 3-party Turing test (participants speak to a human & AI simultaneously and decide which is which). GPT-4.5 (when prompted to adopt a humanlike persona) was judged to be the human 73% of the time, suggesting it passes the Turing test (🧵)

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Check it out for cool plots like this about how affinities between words in sentences and how they can show how Green Day isn't like green paint or green tea. And congrats to @coryshain.bsky.social and the CLiMB lab! climblab.org

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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈 In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 🧵:

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@yann-lecun.bsky.social at #StandUpForScience NYC in Washington Square Park — “I work on both natural and artificial intelligence, and I think this government could do with a little more intelligence.”

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#StandUpForScience today! NYC is 12-3 PM EST in Washington Square Park, details about other cities here: standupforscience2025.org

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/02/2025

Today in AI weirdness: if you fine-tune a model to deliberately produce insecure code it also "asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively" www.emergent-misalignment.com

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Emergent Misalignment

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thanks to @kensycoop.bsky.social for this great interview about my book. We cover domestication syndrome, plasticity-led evolution, soft inheritance, animal traditions, how culture shapes evolution, and more. Kensy also does a wonderful production job, turning me into a coherent speaker! Thank you

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/02/2025

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wrote up some notes on my trip to the first @IASEAIorg conference—mostly on the importance of "agents", the risks that they might pose, and how/whether we can mitigate them. camrobjones.substack.com/p/notes-from...

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Notes from IASEAI

On agents, ethics, and catastrophic risks

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We've relaunched @turingtestlive with a 3-party format where you speak to a human and an LLM at the same time. See if you can tell the difference between a human and an AI here: turingtest.live

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The Turing Test — Can you tell a human from an AI?

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’m in Paris for IASEAI, let me know if you’re around and would want to meet up!

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This article provides help on how to write code and documentation to help LLMs use your framework. This is what the real AI takeover looks like. encore.dev/blog/llm-ins...

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Using LLMs to help LLMs build Encore apps – Encore Blog

How we used LLMs to produce instructions for LLMs to build Encore applications.

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

How effective are LLMs are persuading and deceiving people? In a new preprint we review different theoretical risks of LLM persuasion; empirical work measuring how persuasive LLMs currently are; and proposals to mitigate these risks. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2412.17128

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Distributional Language Statistics: Persuasion and Deception with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate content that is as persuasive as human-written text and appear capable of selectively producing deceptive outputs. These capabilities raise concerns about pot...

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

You can now access Turing Test Live any time! turingtest.live

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Laura @lauraruis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sometimes o1's thinking time almost feels like a slight. o1 is like "oh I thought about this uninvolved question of yours for 7 seconds and here is my 20 page essay on it"

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Can an AI convince you it's human? Can you convince another human you're not an AI? Find out at turingtest.live. Live now! And daily: 1–2 PM & 8–9 PM GMT.

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The Turing Test — Can you tell a human from an AI?

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Turing test live uses a 3-party format, where you chat with a human and an AI simultaneously. Can you tell them apart? Live now and every day from 1–2 PM & 8–9 PM GMT at turingtest.live.

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The Turing Test — Can you tell a human from an AI?

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m running an experiment to see how well LLMs do at a Turing test at turingtest.live. You can play now! (For the next hour, and then every day from 8-9am and 3-4am ET). It uses a 3-player format where you talk to a human and an LLM simultaneously and have to decide which is which.

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The Turing Test — Can you tell a human from an AI?

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

turingtest.live is back up! With new models, prompts, and 3-party format where you speak to a person and an LLM simultaneously. See if you can tell the difference between human and an AI!

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The Turing Test — Can you tell a human from an AI?

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Cameron Jones @camrobjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We're relaunching turingtest.live on Thursday at 1pm GMT / 8am ET / 5am PT. The new site will use a 3 player format where you speak to a human and an AI simultaneously and decide which is which! We're also testing a variety of new prompting approaches.

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Laura @lauraruis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

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