23+ hour, 48+ 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…...

3+ day, 3+ 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, 57+ min 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…...

4+ day, 17+ 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…...

5+ day, 1+ 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…...

6+ day, 20+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1030+ words) The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English: It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...