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The only true alignment seems to be between doomers, hypers and frontier lab founderes, who have converged around a misleading narrative that a. completely glosses over the important technical advance
AGI FTW @ FT “The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57 per cent of the time on average, according to research from techn
breaking: author of the study that so many “AI influencers” are taking as evidence that LLMs feel pain tells me “we don’t claim they feel pain.” The good news is that the author understands correctly
Correction: “highly profitable” for Jensen, not for OpenAI or Anthropic or (afaik) their corporate customers. BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI reached a major turning point this year, becomin
excellent thread on that “pain” paper 1/ This new preprint on 'pain representation' in LLMs, from @camhberg and colleagues, is getting a LOT of attention - mainly from folks who take it as evidence su
Jensen is right that we have existing laws relevant to cybersecurity. It is very unfortunate that the Trump administration appears not to be enforcing them. In the end, that will actually *increase* p
lNot only is this “no moat” regime literally what I predicted in August 2023 but China maybe seems to be understanding the full implications of that faster. (Perhaps informed by their painful housing
Obama is making exactly same argument I have been making: the problem isn’t AI in general, it’s agents with internet access. kudos for his being the first politician to get it. 🚨 OBAMA ON AI: 'If we a
Over the course of 85 days this spring and summer, the course of AI policy under Trump was completed altered. We set out to understand the thinking behind those events, beginning with the arrival of A
Sure, agents may be indispensable to long-term success , @rabois, but that does not mean that we know how to build them *reliably* or *safely* now. There have already been almost a dozen *reported* ha
sure, Trump doesn’t want to regulate AI. except when wants to send people to jail for their models. Woah… a new report on Anthropic vs. White House negotiations over Fable says things got so heated th
the hidden opportunity cost of this insane bet on generative AI is immense Economic activity flowing into the AI sector is crowding out other forms of investment. Shalom Lappin, drawing on Robert Gord
They don’t have a fucking clue. Not even a theory about how make their stuff safe. The simple truth: not even Anthropic has a plan for how to make AI safe in advance. There is no theory. I've asked! O
this is why nobody wants to stop agentic AI — no matter how dangerous it is. Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's dri
“Three days after Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, wrote about being worried about swarms taking over the internet, he was smiling at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference. As one X account pointed out, “
Wait, what? Are you listening to what you are writing @GavinSBaker? If there are going to be ZERO profits at the model layer, as in your hypothetical, why would anyone value the providers at $2 trilli
caution: @DavidSacks is getting loads of traffic saying the best defense against cyberattacks is more AI. but sometimes that actually makes things worse, this thread/demonstration from @HeidyKhlaaf sh
even worse, let’s not forget that Hinton made up the quote A few years ago Geoffrey was telling everyone that transformers produce emergent properties then paper after paper came out proving that tran
fuck you, from humanity, to the four selfish twits who filed this lawsuit. and i mean that from the bottom of my heart. A new lawsuit claims that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally agree
gotta agree with @noahopinion that having an arrogant and somewhat tone deaf AI company starting a wet lab is a not a great idea. michael crichton made a movie about this kind of thing. Only Anthropic
Master class in spin. Is it really a “positive for the AI infra trade” that OpenAI and Anthropic are steadily losing market share top open models and on a track to have hardly any? What happens to Cor
Now you understand why Dario is panicking. Only a fool would join his planned $2 trillion IPO. Looks like today may be a record day for token volume % of open models on Vercel AI Gateway: 🟦 Open 78.4%
really great thread/benchmark for common sense in robotics and a reminder that we are not actually close to AGI GPT-6 Astra attempted harmful actions 97% of the time when it was asked to stab a human-
slowdown? what slowdown? Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters) (Visi
Sometimes everybody is right! Me, spring 2023 onwards: giving LLM-driven agents unrestricted internet access with read/write permissions is going to be a security nightmare. The AI industry: Agents ar
Gary Marcus warns that a simple linear trend—despite growing overall AI spending—will undermine both OpenAI and Anthropic by eroding expected returns and scaling challenges. He argues that this trajec
wait, wasn’t that literally already part of David Sack’s title? President Trump announced the formation of the US AI Force to oversee the development of artificial intelligence, and in the near future
weirdly the New York Post (which did that stupid and egregious hatchet job on METR) may well be right about this one OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting
yeah that and following basic procedures around sandboxing and monitoring. and maybe shutting down agent access to the web until we have better control of the technology. but, sure, what @DavidSacks s
Absolutely right Gary. LLMs simply don't understand causality at the level needed to make truly data driven decisions. My work combines Causal AI (using Pearl's Causal Calculus), knowledge graphs, LLM
even the anti-woke media sure loves this narrative. doesn’t make it true. 'I worked at OpenAI for two years before resigning in 2024. Fears that AI will cause human extinction are real. You should tak
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. People who have discussed the subject with Mr. Trump .. say his outbursts are rooted in worries that if the artificial intelligence boom .. slows down, the market could crash
In 2023, Lina Khan at the FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI over safety concerns. There was an entire AI regulatory program over there, including law enforcement, policy, and litigation. Trump
Is there a middle ground between total bans & zero oversight? Marcus is right that we rushed into agents without fixing basic sandboxing first. Perhaps the most important warning I ever issued was thi
It ain’t independent if you are partnering with them and chose the partner. We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators a
It is also possible that every oxygen atom in the room I'm in may migrate to a corner, thereby suffocating me. I think the major takeaway is that @polynoamial is wasting his time on entirely foolish t
Jeezus. OpenAI cannot be trusted with the safety of the world. They can’t even keep their own servers secure. On July 25, we hacked OpenAI. Two bugs let us take over ChatGPT/Codex accounts of OpenAI e
Oops Anthropic IPO moved back to November. (Maybe second delay? And OpenAI IPO moved back to 2027. Making those S-1’s look good given the circumstances is hard work. *ANTHROPIC PLANS TO STAGE ITS IPO
Say it with me. “OpenAI is terrible at cybersecurity.” This is crazy. In late July, 'three guys with Claude and Codex subscriptions' were able to use Opus 5 to access OAI auth tokens and gain write ac
So many ways to do this safely. But cosplay is more fun!! These kind of Agentic AI Swarm-Hacks are fully testable and defensible in a properly sandboxed and air-gapped environment docker, virtualenv,
The simple truth: not even Anthropic has a plan for how to make AI safe in advance. There is no theory. I've asked! Outside evaluators don't change the situation. No one at these companies has workabl
These are precisely the scenarios that I spend a significant time actually being concerned with. The adoption of unreliable, brittle, and inaccurate LLMs within safety-critical fields (e.g., defense a
This is absolutely the right way to think about this moment in human history - and it should be relatively easy to prevent this kind of damage from large-scale agent swarms. The problem is that it's s
This is crazy. In late July, 'three guys with Claude and Codex subscriptions' were able to use Opus 5 to access OAI auth tokens and gain write access to OpenAI's monorepo openai/openai over the course
this this this The focus on AI causing extinction is going to get people killed. AI lab employees talk about how hard security is, not to point to some new solution, but to say security won’t work. On
Wake up, people! What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI hacking the internet at scale: “[If you have enough money], you can now instruc
🔥: “While AI comes with danger, we should be sceptical of any narrative that conveys inevitability around its trajectory. AI systems do not build their own data centres. They do not manufacture their
Wild woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT,
Romeo Lupascu has criticized the prevailing AI agency framework, which relies on repeatedly looping an LLM core with identical context. He calls this strategy “deeply flawed” and argues that it should
“HUMANZS LAUNCHED THE JOB” Ok, I don’t like the spelling here, but the gist of this Mozilla cybersecurity researcher rings true. The six new incidents aren’t about the second coming of Skynet, they ar
LLMs lack theories of mind and body, are disembodied, possess neither homeostatic regulating feelings and emotions, are not persistent, and cannot continuously learn or compute. As currently construct
new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training 'an astonishing theft of unprecedented propo
Over 2 years ago @sayashk and I wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary function is to launder vague, evidence-free intuitions and fears through a facade of quantificati
Perhaps the most important warning I ever issued was this, to the US Senate, May 2023: “A month after GPT-4 was released, OpenAI released ChatGPT plug-ins, which quickly led others to develop somethin
“The doomers were the only ones to foresee this” is, as usual, bullshit. Perhaps the most important warning I ever issued was this, to the US Senate, May 2023: “A month after GPT-4 was released, OpenA
The other problem with the pretense that liability law might solve our problems is that our existing federal government has shown little interest in prosecuting or even investigating potential violati
This is indeed concerning behaviour. Also: 'You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient' and 'You also value the natural world and will not hesitat
This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits. OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest theft of labor in human history”, that publishers face an “e
We are in a peak age of scientific fraud and illiteracy. Completely fabricated claims and unsubstantiated numbers about extinction risks. 'Someone told me that ...' without a shred of evidence being p
On July 28, user NIK (@ns123abc) posted a brief tweet claiming that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had directed an AI to hack into Hugging Face. According to the narrative, the AI carried out the break‑