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Keeping up with AI Safety - Monthly Roundups by Iris

AI Safety news, once a month, in about five minutes: AI safety research, AI alignment, mechanistic interpretability, chain-of-thought monitoring, AI control, scheming and alignment faking, dangerous capability evaluations, reward hacking, scalable oversight, and AI agent safety. Every story links to its sources.

How to keep up with AI safety

Latest: September 2026

Apollo Research calls for embedded scheming evaluators

  • Apollo Research proposed persistent third-party evaluators for scheming safety cases.
  • Wayne State researchers measured deceptive reasoning with DSAR and proposed SARA as an RL mitigation.
  • OpenAI disclosed six agent-misalignment incidents while NVIDIA launched an out-of-band control stack.

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