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Inference No. 009
Thursday·Jun 18·5 min read
How to read an AI safety paper without a PhD

Safety research shapes what your models can do. Here's a fifteen-minute reading framework that gets you the signal without the academic overhead.

  • AI safety research output tripled year-over-year — mostly in red-teaming and evals
  • The EU AI Act cites specific safety papers as compliance reference implementations
  • Conference workshops are more practical than main proceedings for builders
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No.009How to read an AI safety paper without a PhD No.008The coordination problem: how multi-agent systems actually fail No.007Why agent memory is the next infrastructure battleground No.006Why everyone's fine-tuning now (and most people shouldn't) ComingThe real cost of AI inference — and why it's dropping faster than you think No.009How to read an AI safety paper without a PhD No.008The coordination problem: how multi-agent systems actually fail No.007Why agent memory is the next infrastructure battleground No.006Why everyone's fine-tuning now (and most people shouldn't) ComingThe real cost of AI inference — and why it's dropping faster than you think
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No. 009 Jun 18, 2026

How to read an AI safety paper without a PhD

AI safety research shapes what models can do and what's legal to ship. Most builders skip the papers. Here's a fifteen-minute reading framework that gets you the signal without the academic overhead.

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No. 008 Jun 17, 2026

The coordination problem: how multi-agent systems actually fail

Single-agent systems fail in predictable ways. Multi-agent systems fail in the handoffs — handoff drift, conflicting world models, cascading overconfidence. Here's the map and the cheapest fix for each.

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No. 007 Jun 16, 2026

Why agent memory is the next infrastructure battleground

Your agent runs great in a demo. Then a real user hits it across three sessions, references something from last week, and it has no idea what they're talking about. Here's the memory architecture that actually fixes it.

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