2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1130+ words) Anderson Cooper looks pretty worried here, as Jacob Coxon, the ex-OpenAI/ex-Anthropic employee who is the media darling of the moment, tells us that the human species might not be here in five years. I am here to tell you…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (487+ words) Back in fall of 2024, Terence Tao, perhaps the most respected living mathematician, was eager to learn about what AI could and could not do. Although he was skeptical of the then recently-released o1, he was optimistic about a future in which…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (239+ words) A couple hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. Unfortunately, Huang gave no evidence and no definitions, which feels to me like an effort at a takeover of a scientific question by corporate fiat. I…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (204+ words) The Information just broke the scoop that OpenAI is playing around with a new technique, in which models will reveal less of their “thinking”, making them harder to monitor. The new techniques they are exploring may make such monitoring difficult…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Excellent new essay by Bill Gates, echoing many of the themes I have been writing about here and in my 2024 book Taming Silicon Valley: The critical, lasting importance of the decisions we make now. The risks that AI creates, around…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (137+ words) A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero. But whatever…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (125+ words) Remember my annual Politico “black swan” prediction, published January 2, 2026? Trump himself hasn’t entirely bolted — yet — but he’s certainly changed course sharply, moving from full anti AI regulation to strongly encouraging the voluntary preflight testing of frontier AI models. Axios just…...