Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending the 2026 Bilderberg conference this week.Subscribe nowAI can reverse engineer software that contains thousands of lines of code:…MirrorCode demonstrates some of the long-horizon capabilities of modern AI systems…AI measurement organizations METR and Epoch have built MirrorCode, a benchmark meant to ...