The Cognitive Revolution · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Bronson Shine explains that Apollo Research's primary focus is on identifying and studying risks associated with future AI models that might covertly pursue misalignment objectives. Their work involves broad exploratory reading of AI reasoning to understand current behavioral tendencies that could become problematic.
“Yeah, primarily at Apollo Research, the kind of primary area of interest that we're focused on is risks from future models with respect to models like covertly pursuing misalignment objectives.”
“A lot of what we're trying to study is what are the various either precursors or drives that you'd want to understand about models or current behavioral tendencies, cognition, to try to build up an understanding now of things that could be problematic in the future, to start actually building out like a science around this.”