Astral Codex Ten

AI Lab Watch

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AI Lab Watch

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AI Lab Watch is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 13, 2025 and December 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Zach Stein-Perlman, who runs AI Lab Watch , argues that Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust Is Powerless”; “for AI Lab Watch”. It most often appears alongside ACLU, ACX, AI 2027.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 13, 2025
  • Last seen: December 22, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

OpenAI Nonprofit Buyout: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
March 13, 2025 · Original source
Zach Stein-Perlman, who runs AI Lab Watch, argues that Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust Is Powerless. He points to a rule that a supermajority (with complicated definition, see here) of stockholders can overrule the LTBT. Anthropic partisans counter that they need some way to deal with the trust losing the plot; many of Anthropic’s shareholders are also people with a special interest in AI safety, and it would be hard to get a majority of these people to overrule the LTBT unless it was important.
Inline links: AI Lab Watch, Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust Is Powerless, here
Open Thread 413
December 22, 2025 · Original source
1: Another charity fundraiser, this one for Lightcone Infrastructure. Lightcone is the group that does the hard work for many of the rationalist community resources you enjoy. You probably know them from the Less Wrong website and the Lighthaven campus. But did you know they also designed the websites for AI 2027, for Eliezer and Nate’s book, for AI Lab Watch, and (for some reason) for Deciding To Win, a renegade faction of Democrats who believe that, instead of supporting unpopular policies and losing, the party should support popular policies and win? And on the side, they play a big role in hosting ACX meetups, including letting us use their campus (if you’ve ever been to our Berkeley meetup location, that was them). They’re a rare intersection between “support effective altruist charities” and “support pillars of your your local community”. Donate here, or contact Oli if you have some kind of more complicated donation-related need.
Inline links: Lightcone Infrastructure, Less Wrong, Lighthaven, AI 2027, Eliezer and Nate’s book, AI Lab Watch, Deciding To Win, here