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Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes
Here’s who we should be listening to instead
Translating Sam
Wondering what Sam’s endorsement of Dario is really about?
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BREAKING: Secret US AI evaluation framework has been partly revealed
Very partly
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President Trump’s Date With Destiny?
September 24, if played right, could change everything
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Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei
A partial endorsement of his essay “We Must Pace the Frontier”
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Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
Dario Amodei seems to think so.
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No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
AI is already causing harms, there are are many real risks, but constant focus on absurd end-of-the-world fantasies has made the situation worse
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BREAKING: Two rays of hope
Pushing for transparency
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The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
I believe the time has come
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Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic
Lots to consider
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OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
Nine troubling new reports in seven days
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Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
Declaring victory without a definition simply muddies the waters
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Pause OpenAI, now
Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.
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Hot take on GPT-6 Astra
An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models
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The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it
There’s a lot to like here, but the proposal clearly goes too far.
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Elon Musk is on a prediction rampage, and most of the media can’t seem to figure out what to do about it.
The bad news is that he’s not alone
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Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
When “plain English” isn’t a good thing.
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5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
Did OpenAI really do the best they could?
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Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
The time to tame Silicon Valley has come
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Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
And you thought the SpaceX S-1 was ridiculous
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Two ways it might all fall apart
Not mutually exclusive
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A few words about Canada and the US
Sorry, this one is not about AI. But sometimes one must speak out.
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BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs?
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ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
What’s in an acronym? How to read between the lines.
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Data center madness
Two estimates of how crazy AI Capex has gotten, and four new signs that public opinion has totally soured
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OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company
It’s not even really trying to hide it
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Leopold’s Folly
How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era
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Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech
And panicking with good reason