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Edge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action

This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public safety, mobility, and infrastructure management. What you will learn about: How the shift from smart cities to cognitive cities depends on infrastructure that reasons and acts, rather than infrastructure that only monitors.

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Catching split attacks across compactions in long-context coding agents

This work was conducted through the MARS V fellowship under the mentorship of Tyler Tracy from Redwood Research. TL;DR We present the LCM dataset: 30 long context (1.00-1.46M total tokens) matched honest / attack pairs of Claude Code Sonnet 5 sessions. Each transcript has four compactions. Attacks are decomposed into a setup and an execution, split up by multiple compactions.

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Reinforcement Learning is Probably Inconsistent with Ethics

"Reinforcement learning is evil." - Yoshua Bengio I agree with Bengio here, though I have an argument I haven't seen elsewhere. [1] A standard argument for reinforcement learning being dangerous goes like this: reinforcement learning requires you to specify a reward function; specifying a reward function which captures all of ethics is really hard; so we will specify a proxy of ethics instead; powerful optimizers will game any proxy objective;…

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Models Trained to Evade Topic Probes Struggle to Answer Questions about Those Topics

TL;DR Neural Chameleons are models trained to evade activation probes whenever the prompt says "You are being probed for X". The paper reports that this generalizes to probes the model never saw, at a small capability cost (about 3 points on MMLU and 1 on GSM8K). But it never tests the models on questions where the cognition the probe is looking for is necessary to answer correctly.

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How Researchers Lie to AIs

This is a two week sprint project done as part of the Redwood Research internship. Alessandro was the main IC, Alex supervised. Figure 1: The percentage of 292 public alignment evaluations between Dec 2022 and Oct 2026 (see Appendix) that contained a lie of each type. There are many contexts in which researchers lie to models, which can be useful both from a practical perspective [1] and a scientific one.

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