Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment 🥞 A research program dedicated to co-aligning AI systems *and* institutions with what people value. It's the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken. Here's what we're doing: 🧵

Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.

ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts We live in a weird timeline…

Amazing to see a Japanese edition of the book “Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned” by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman now available in Japan! 🇯🇵⛩️ Thanks Mizuki Oka/岡瑞起 鈴木 健 and others for working on this project.

E/acc's Beff Jezos thinks we should build AGI faster because life accelerates entropy production, and that's supposedly good. 🧵 This is genuinely unprecedented in moral philosophy. Nobody – not Nietzsche, not the transhumanists, not even cosmic pessimists – ever argued that

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Both English and Japanese editions now found a home Sakana AI library ✨

Surreal but definitely interesting banana-centric explainer for Kenneth Stanley and I's book. Fun meta-fact: Bananas we eat also the convoluted outcome of an unplanned breeding program thought to originate ~7k years ago in New Guinea youtu.be/bZ4FOJgQLpA?si… c/o Alpha Romeo

Nice to see an exploration of the potential for ES (evolution strategies) in LLM fine tuning! Many potential advantages are discussed in this thread from Yulu Gan ✈️ NeurIPS'25 .

Intriguing analysis of Life-changing books by Joel Lehman What are your life-changing authors and books? blog.joellehman.com/identifying-li…

Every startup now is like "We found a cool way to monetize undermining the social contract!"

Cosmos Fellowship applications are open: your chance to join the University of Oxford's Human-Centered AI Lab with Philipp Koralus. We’re looking for individuals with the potential for world-class AI expertise and deep philosophic insight 👇

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -yeats

It was a real honor to appear with Joel Lehman on the Japanese program Pivot while in Japan for release of the Japanese edition of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. This is actually an in-person interview with both me and Joel: youtu.be/YsYLx9Z_FBw

Apply for a Cosmos Fellowship at University of Oxford's Human-Centered AI Lab with Philipp Koralus Join a community of fellows like Joel Lehman, Whitney Deng, and Jules Desai building AI for human flourishing.

Excited to announce our MIT Press book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi (Sebastian Risi), Yujin Tang (Yujin Tang), Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can