27 JUN 2026

Day 178

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke · Profiles of the Future

A short literary text associated with William Blake’s 1794 Songs of Experience, held as a work in the British Museum collection.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

A Poison Tree

1794 · British Museum · Literary work

Published in 1794 in Songs of Experience and held by the British Museum, this short poem follows repressed anger until it ends in murder.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Red Teaming for Language Model Safety

alignment / safety · Perez et al. 2022; Bai et al. 2022 · human & LM red teaming, CAI

Human testers systematically attack language models to provoke unsafe replies. The failures they find often sit outside the reach of standard automated benchmarks.

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A seated bearded man in marble, body twisted, one leg drawn back, heavy tablets under his arm, long hair and beard deeply carved, with two small horns above the forehead.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Moses

Michelangelo · 1510 · Marble

A seated Moses in marble, horns rising from his hair, carved by Michelangelo for the tomb of Pope Julius II and still in San Pietro in Vincoli.

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