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Since you're all fans of Ada Lovelace, we thought we'd give you a sneak peek behind the scenes. Here's some pre-production artwork from when our art director, @peonyvibes.bsky.social, was cooking up her design! Ada Lovelace appears in our latest video. You can watch it here: youtu.be/Z7dH_Cxx75g

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Can computers come up with original ideas?

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How one typo sent GPT-2 spiraling into a smut-maximizing machine:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The alignment training that made GPT-2 maximally lewd:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The origin story of the lewdest AI ever created:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Are AIs ironically hampering our safety tests?

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

AIs know when they're being tested for safety

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Here's what happened when researchers tried to make an AI model scheme less:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Why an AI model hid its true capabilities from researchers:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

How a deceptively aligned AI looks perfectly fine until it takes over:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How human drives decorrelated from reproductive success:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

AI capabilities can generalize while goals remain misaligned:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

How a tiny shift in the environment broke an AI agent:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Humans are misaligned from the perspective of evolution:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Here's how we broke out of the simulation:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They were not aliens. They were something much weirder.

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It looks like our simulators aren't very bright...

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It looks like aliens are sending us a picture.

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Someone is talking to us by... shifting the luminosity of stars?

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Here's why security measures won't work on superintelligence:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We might only get one real attempt at superintelligence

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Most Trustworthy Things: Laws and Kings

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Most Trustworthy Things: Beggars and Daughters

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Most Trustworthy Things: Books and Plows

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Weak AIs have a hard time teaching human values to strong AIs:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

AIs that teach other AIs that teach other AIs...

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Dumb AIs trained smart AIs to play chess. Here's how that went:

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It may not look like it, but the weaker AI is coaching the swole one here. Our latest video explains why that makes sense: youtu.be/INP8ru2Tj5M

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Rational Animations @rationalanimations.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Us: in the bottom-right quadrant, making videos about AI Safety. You: in all the other quadrants, watching the videos. This is also 100% relevant to our next video, which is coming out very soon.

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