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Sam Altman made statements under oath in May 2023 regarding AI safety and OpenAI's practices, but Gary Marcus critiqued these statements as incomplete or misleading, suggesting Altman failed to fully

Good summary of today, @katiemiller, but then again it is getting hard to track of the total number of ex-board members who have called Altman a liar 🤷‍♂️ Also hard to keep track how many OpenAI safet

If extremely violent criminals are not imprisoned, eventually they will murder innocent people This bodega owner told ABC a year ago that he fears for his safety in NY Last night, he was kiIIed by a s

Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionles

NHTSA autonomous vehicle crash data has been updated through March 15, 2026, for AVs including Tesla Robotaxi. This includes unsupervised Tesla-driven robotaxis. • Waymo: 58 incidents • Zoox: 3 incide

* **What it likely covers:** This entry likely discusses contemporary concerns regarding the safety and restriction of freedom of speech or civil liberties, drawing a parallel between past discus...

Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute

Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. I'm not surprised at all, and it's actuall

Today, we’re launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles. Beyond seeing, Alpamayo understands and reasons through the complex world - thinks before it acts. I

It's essential that defenders have the same capabilities as attackers. This is a preview of the future where our ham-fisted safeguards and the doomsday and safety drumbeat make us decidely less safe.

And now from the Chinese government side. This would be a good time for cooperation between the US and China to establish common testing/acceptance standards for new models, so at least the safety cer

Connor Leahy promoted a podcast episode featuring So8res (a researcher/AI safety figure) on Peter McCormack's podcast, sharing a YouTube link to the full video on X/Twitter. The post encourages viewer

My biggest NY-12 competitors aren't on the ballot today: Trump's AI oligarchs. If they can defeat me—the author of the nation's strongest AI safety bill in one of the nation's bluest districts—they ca

Anthropic and OpenAI did not call for a pause. Read the wording: 'good for the world to have the option', 'possible' to slow down 'when needed'. This is how they signal safety to one audience, acceler

Anthropic, if they really believe what they say, should show some leadership: 🔔 IF Anthropic is for real about safety, the should pause, for one month, and show leadership. If they won’t pause, even b

People are often confused that I am against the framing of 'tool AI' This is hands down the best post explaining (some of) the issues with the term. Give it a read! Many in AI safety advocacy argue th

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we pr

Gary Marcus humorously notes that George Hotz, an AI researcher and entrepreneur, is beginning to echo Marcus's own views or criticisms, likely regarding AI safety, limitations, or technical concerns.

This was always and only the sole and exclusive purpose of the UK online censorship act, to help Labour nuke its enemies 🚨 Labour is using the “Online Safety Act” to silence political opponents, and T

This post likely discusses the proliferation of AI bots and chatbot applications while arguing that despite their abundance, many demonstrate reasonable safety practices or alignment with human values

Gary Marcus posted on X (formerly Twitter) requesting that Bloomberg update outdated information, likely regarding AI safety, regulation, or related technological topics that Marcus frequently discuss

Mira Murati’s testimony is gripping – and what it makes absolutely clear is how utterly wrong most of Twitter was about why Sam was fired. – It had nothing per se to do with AI safety - It had nothing

This post references an interview featuring Elon Musk and Sam Altman discussing AI safety, existential risks, and the future of humanity, with an unconventional or humorous element involving goblins.

Scary that he doesn’t know this. Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a 'safety card' is with regard to AI development... 'Why would it be a card?' He also says he doesn'

Gary Marcus critiques the rapid deployment of chatbots to market without adequate consideration of potential harms and consequences. The statement reflects concerns about insufficient safety testing a

honestly, one of the worst things this nation has ever done to itself. No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administr

I spent the last 2 months trying to prevent this. If OpenAI offered a fig leaf, Google said 'imagine we offered a fig leaf.' Google affirms it can't veto usage, commits to modify safety filters at gov

On Star Price's new @hitpausepod podcast, ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) explains how AIs can already tell when they're being tested. Currently, we can still catch them cheating, b

The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive regulation for AI systems, and it’s right around the corner. With the clock running down, we took a deeper look at what these requirements mean for your agents

This is the 7th consecutive week with new reporting that ChatGPT was used in connection with murder or suicide. OpenAI doesn’t “benefit all of humanity.” Safety researchers keep quitting OpenAI becaus

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out

David Friedberg on the Nonprofit Scam: 90% Are Bullsh*t “ The definition of exempt activities is charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literacy, public safety, or fostering amateur sports co

And eventually schools will (if they have any sense) probably withdraw or limit LLMs. 🦔Schools across the US are reversing years of technology-first classroom policies after studies show laptop and sc

More people will die from suppressing AI than from the imaginary AI apocalypse. They'll die from restricting safe self-driving cars that are 90% better drivers than people who kill 1.5 million people

They just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of fraud. Wow! The SPLC worked with Facebook, Old Twitter and Youtube on their safety teams, sometimes directly advising/flagging what c

Gary Marcus argues that Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) and Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) share more similarities in their approaches to AI development and safety than commonly perceived, despite their public

FSD v14.3.1 review after 10 drives and many hours, here are my thoughts (it’s a great one) - v14.3.1 feels like a big jump even compared to FSD v14.3, even for “just” a point release build. Everything

Read The Story of Civilization by Durant “But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern s

link to @HeidyKhlaaf’s sharp analysis: As someone who has audited dozens of safety-critical systems, built static analysis tools, and used most formal verification and security tools, here are some re

We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident. This is an unprecedented incident, and we think it marks an important moment for AI

Pedro Domingos noted that OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to develop the scariest AI for marketing, raising concerns about the potential misuse of persuasive machine‑learning models. His comment hi

SSI should open-source an opus-tier model. 1. it nearly closes the us/china gap on the os frontier 2. they don't want to waste compute allocation on inference, releasing os will enable continued full

Drone delivery is about to be cheaper than cars. But the drone is only 15% of the work to get there. A decade after starting in Rwanda flying blood to one hospital, @zipline has flown 140M+ autonomous

AI systems that are accessible or even better open-source are safer for a simple reason: more people can inspect them, test them, stress them, and report what breaks or harms to keep the builders acco

Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic. A decade from now there will be millions of these things rolling around the world. The war over autonomous vehicles is on, as everyone in San F

Why are AI research restrictions treated differently from every other safeguard? @theemozilla and @karan4d, co-founders of Nous Research: 'On the bio stuff... just saying no to the user and being hone