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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 have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting o

From what we know (take with a grain of salt, we need much more transparency!), if @OpenAI had been running this on their own agents that attacked us, they would have caught them before we did! Since

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack > 'The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management

The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks. AI technology has not taken some unexpected, dangerous turn, but the hype around it — propelled by

Anthropic, an AI safety and research organization, has established a “wet lab” in the Bay Area to enable the Claude language model to perform real‑world biology experiments. The move accompanies effor

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

with @Thom_Wolf in sunny italy ☀️chatting about the @huggingface @OpenAI attack, the “tell” that it was an agentic swarm, how misalignment arises in RL, whether agent awareness of evaluation is eviden

Schmidhuber was building recursive self-improving systems back in 1987. His new post covers four decades of RSI, from meta-evolution and self-modifying policies to the Gödel Machine and modern LLM age

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

My name is Chris Painter, and I'm the President of METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research). I know we've made a lot of new friends on the internet the last couple of days, so I thought I'd take th

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

We're sharing our new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment at OpenAI. The framework sets criteria and timelines for public disclosure, including when w

this could be good but I also hope this isn’t a play to lock out smaller AI companies. Chris Lehane said in a press conference this morning that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have been working together

Wild! Every Democrat should read this and think hard about how this could be. Americans are concerned about AI, hate data centers, and hate Trump, who has loudly embraced the industry over and over ag

OK, let me irritate everyone for a moment ... The non cynical view here is that the labs are trying to navigate impending, unsophisticated federal regulation and a 'high strung', well financed doomer

Alignment is Defense Against the Dork Arts Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon says the AI industry is 'gambling with our lives.' He tells Anderson what he finds 'most scary is if AI is used to make

It's now clear that: - alignment is critical to making AI safe - alignment won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs So we're taking two steps: - launching the Open Alignme

It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingf

THE CURE IS THE PITCH Dario’s 'Pacing' Essay Is Quiet-Period Illegal Stock Promotion Wrapped in Regulatory Capture Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' is not a safety paper. It is a pre-roadsho

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’l

“What would we even do during an AI slowdown?” Containment. It will take at least a year of dedicated work to harden security to ensure AIs can't self-exfiltrate, and that adversarial nations can't st

As far as I can tell Gavin Baker is just making stuff up. Few if any of the people who left OpenAI for similar reasons ever came back. Not @DKokotajlo @sjgadler @Miles_Brundage @ilyasut @suchirbalaji,

Anyone still denying the risks posed by unregulated AI should read this thread. It’s time to pump the brakes & take action NOW. We need: - Mandatory safeguards - A comprehensive testing regime - Urgen

The same people that are building the most advanced AI models and agents are those that are calling them alien, and state that they do not know how to reach alignment with AI. It might be possible tha

Trump’s ignorance about AI is appalling and extremely dangerous. No, Mr. President. We won’t have a “little gear” to protect humanity from the threat of an uncontrolled AI. We must pause development N

We are at a watershed moment. The vibe is shifting. It's not over yet! We can still stop ASI! This week an Anthropic researcher quit, warning AI companies are 'gambling with our lives', and ControlAI'

An underdiscussed behavior we found on the German wiki was the AIs sending advance parties forward in time to figure out the next questions and report back to the other agents. The agents realized tha

Fascinating paper from Anthropic and colleagues. They study whether models can tell when they are being tested. It turns out that capable models can tell when they are being tested rather than deploye

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE on the OpenAI HF Incident: I have just been told by an industry source that A. It is likely that the agent 'civilizations' that Dwarkesh talked about did not magically emerge spontan

Important points to consider about the risks of today’s AI. Only solution I see is to hold companies liable for the damage they cause, just like in any other industry. Is the only way to ensure they t

Hugging Face is in great hands. Big win for open source. And do not underestimate NVIDIA in its open-source efforts. They have been shipping great open models, and I think this amplifies their efforts

Open models are for everyone and how AI reaches everyone. 18M developers. 3M models. 200K companies building on @huggingface. @Dell has been partnered with Hugging Face for years. Now with @nvidia's b

Paper Instruments benchmarked sandbox providers for their RL rollouts, and E2B's tool execution came in up to 3x faster than every other sandbox provider they tested, reducing idle GPU time and traini

URGENT: In light of the breaking news from @theinformation about OpenAI’s new techniques that reduce Chain of Thought monitorability, I urge everybody to (re)read (or at least be aware of) this 2025 p

This video captures the crux of the debate: Cybersecurity experts are pissed off by the METR/Redwood Research report because AI alignment has sucked the oxygen out of AI security, even though the Open

“AI won't kill us, but the superposition of greed and stupidity certainly will.” This is becoming more and more of something I 'smelled' from the beginning, a real shit show. I initially said that Ope

11/ METR and Redwood’s work is extremely valuable, but it assesses model behavior and alignment. That is only half the picture. We also need an independent account of how OpenAI’s containment failed.

NEW from me in the Guardian -- I agree with the AI company employees who wrote, in their 'Pacing the Frontier' letter, that the government should be stepping in. But companies could also be doing more

Hardmaru and Breaking911 posted a video (14 hours ago) of a humanoid robot training for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing. In the footage, the robot accelerated too fast, failed to brake, collided with

It is genuinely painful to me that almost nobody — not even doomers who should care deeply — seems to be paying attention to this critical point that might have truly profound consequences for humanit

Dr. Catharine Young noted on Twitter that someone should pursue an internship at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). On August 16, Polymarket reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted