What: The first public playtest of The Commons Problem, an AI Governance Megagame. Read the full breakdown here.When: Saturday, 17 October 2026. Doors open at 9:00 AM, hard start time 9:30 AM. Wrap-up at 3:30 PM.Where: Metropolitan United Church (56 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON)Cost: $20 CAD, payable by Interac e-Transfer or Paypal (bursaries available)Included: Coffee, donuts, snacks, drinks,…

There are 8 billion human minds running in the world right now. Recently a new digital species has emerged. How many digital minds are there alive in the world right now?Define a digital mind to be an AI agent that runs continuously without human intervention for more than 24 hours. How many of these digital…

Here’s an attempt to classify the evidence about the recent agent incidents. I think it’s important to separate incidents occurring in RL training (that are rewarded and reinforce model behavior) from incidents occurring in evaluations, which are mostly cyber capabilities evaluations with some safeguards turned off.These are the incidents we know of. Of course, we…

This summer, FLF ran a contest which asked entrants to help us “find the best workflows and methodologies for using AI to produce reliable, trustworthy knowledge bases, grounded in real-world cases”.We awarded just over $200k in prizes[1] and we are continuing to invest in this area (you can subscribe for updates).Why we ran this contestAs we wrote in…