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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‑

Why does the AI industry wants you to believe in “rogue agents” when we are really just talking about irresponsibly developed software? Here’s a good theory: @haydenfield @mmitchell_ai @HeidyKhlaaf @t

article in no way whatsoever supports the headline. trash. Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse. Read today's cover here: htt

The “Crazy prediction” page asserts that the next major AI‑agent incident originating from an AI laboratory would have been entirely preventable with strong cybersecurity measures. The site is current

Gary Marcus reported that the entity “Fox” has claimed confidence in its ability to guard a henhouse. Separately, The Straits Times quoted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as saying he is confident the tech indu

GPT-6 Astra is an obviously broken product that needs to be taken off the market until it’s fixed. AXIOS: “.. It's increasingly clear that the Hugging Face breach wasn't a one-off incident.” @inafried

Just went on BBC TV and they opened with clips today from Altman, Huang, and Sanders. Altman and Huang want us to believe that the AI companies have the public interest at heart and will happily just

Zack Korman tweeted that rogue AI agents could pose a severe safety threat—“super scary” and potentially lethal—even to entire families. He clarified that the agent‑trace logs from the recent Hugging

The essay below from Aaronson is just unmoored from reality, sorry. It is just not true, if you try to approach the question in a data-oriented fashion, rather than via vibes and speculative fiction a

the risks WERE foreseeable; i foresaw them. repeatedly, focusing specifically on the risks of LLMs and cybersecurity. happy to provide receipts on request. I’m not a lawyer, but Sam Altman and Dario A

all the conspiracy theories about this guy were probably nonsense but that doesn’t mean we need take seriously everything he says. 'I agree with President Trump's tweet that global warming doomsday sc

full support this proposal from @DKThomp, and there should be a similar broadening for negligent defamation Drop Site and parts of the antitrust left are poo-poohing the idea that we need new rules to

The current AI and I suspect that all AI of the near future (few human generations that is) is in fact a more sophisticated form of data access methods in the same category as classic database indexes