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Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
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…...
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
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…...
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (1148+ words) It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse. They have…...
BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
2+ week, 6+ day ago (53+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs? FT just broke this: This is bad news. But wait, there’s more. Keep reading with…...
No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
2+ day, 13+ 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…...
Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
3+ week, 4+ day ago (354+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash. You can read more here. This may go down in history as one of the…...
OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...
Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
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…...
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
6+ day, 6+ 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…...
Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
9+ hour, 46+ min ago (553+ words) Dario Amodei seems to think so. Or at least Axios thinks he thinks so, based on Amodei’s new essay. We think that’s (a) a vague claim, and (b) pretty implausible as best we can understand it. But in fairness also…...