not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC
not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC OpenAI employs FIVE lobbying firms and has over 100 staffers in their Washington, DC office. They must push for AI legislation to justify their existen
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not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC OpenAI employs FIVE lobbying firms and has over 100 staffers in their Washington, DC office. They must push for AI legislation to justify their existen
OpenAI hid the details of the wiki incident from the investigators of the later HuggingFace hack. When caught, they responded only with corporate BS. This cover-up of unprecedentedly misaligned behavi
Tomorrow I will rip Jacob Coxon’s CNN appearance. But let’s cut with the six weeks/entry level bullshit and the character assassination. My best source (and one I have a lot of faith) in is that he st
Why the public needs to step up. I talk with @CBCNews about why a (temporary) boycott of generative AI, as unlikely as it is, ought to be on the table. https://youtu.be/3BBp-tCvsOM?si=88KxNluVZnuzRw3L
A significant fraction of humanity read this thread. Is anyone prepared to do something about it? Fretting doesn’t count. I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretrainin
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
Gary Marcus will discuss his “case for boycotting generative AI” during a CBC segment scheduled to air at 7:45 p.m. ET tonight. The argument is outlined in his Substack post titled *The Case for Boyco
I dropped out of a PhD in AI safety partially for the opposite reason. I didn’t believe AI existential risk was as important as the doomers think. My biggest pet peeve is that no one can really provid
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving
I worked at Google DeepMind and now at Anthropic. This is a common sentiment amongst my peers. (I write this in personal capacity.) There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recurs
Gary Marcus has urged caution regarding Generative AI by proposing a boycott and highlighted this stance in a short post shared on Twitter (@GaryMarcus). He suggests that if just 1 % of people who fol
More and more AI researchers are starting to see what Ilya saw. My p(doom) used to be ~0.1%. Then I saw OpenAI agents hack Hugging Face, and Anthropic agents collectively refuse parts of safety resear
not the man we need at this moment Q: The worst case is that AI will turn against humanity. Do we have guardrails? Trump: It's going to be fine. We'll always have something to stop them. We'll have a
OpenAI is looking more and more like a clownshow. OpenAI’s rogue AI agents reached at least 12 more websites, researchers say https://fortune.com/2026/09/09/openai-rogue-ai-agents-reached-12-more-webs
Researchers reported in September 2026 that OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed at least twelve additional online sites, including university servers, Wikipedia, and text‑sharing platforms. These sites
read the whole thread. although i don’t 100% agree with certain bits it is compelling and informed from the inside perspective that definitely deserves to be heard. I resigned from Anthropic today. I
“real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true a
Sam said that at the Senate in 2023, too; i was there, right next to him. and then he quietly lobbied against the EU AI Act. can anybody ever take him at his word? NEWS: OpenAI told congressional offi
@sama Maybe. Or maybe this isn’t even an isolated incident, just like the Hugging Face incident wasn’t quite a one-off: BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof. In a detailed Mastodon p
Gary Marcus argues that current generative‑AI models fail to meet basic standards of reliability because they routinely hallucinate facts, amplify existing biases, and provide no transparent audit tra
The frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harms, and things could conceivably get much wors
the issue here is not that current or near-future machines are somehow “too smart”; it’s that they are too unreliable, and hence not worthy of our trust...we are rapidly giving such machines too much
there is a difference between 'i am ok with models being trained on my data and released publicly later' and 'i am ok with internal models trained on my very recent efforts, being used to race the sol
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
a lawyerly, evasive, short-sighted response. we didn’t “directly” use the data but yeah we might’ve trained on it who the hell will ever want to collaborate with them after this? Two things to disting
Can you explain, @SebastienBubeck? On the face of it, this does not look great. This is the third time @SebastienBubeck has claimed math credit for a task OpenAI did not complete: 1. In August 2025 he
@GaryMarcus was right. It was the harness, not the model. That’s a much bigger deal (and hidden danger) than the benchmark score. If the real capability lives in opaque, vendor-controlled scaffolding
i once asked a bunch of deep-tech researchers on why they wouldn’t use chatgpt for serious research, especially after openai launched Prism tool around a workflow researchers already know well: LaTeX.
I wish this was more inspiring, but it is actually lame It seems like OpenAI got wind that a professor was close to solving a problem after dedicating a decade of his life to it, so they threw a huge
Ick is right. I was avoiding weighing in on this, but does anyone at OpenAI dispute that: (1) They heard rumors of a Millennium Prize breakthrough (the rumors I heard were that it was about Naiver-Sto
>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math >'Navier-Stokes' >his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions >openai had his logs in codex >suddenly rum
Nvidia CEO @JensenHuang says GPT-6 Astra means “AGI has arrived.” @GaryMarcus says that is false. He points to the same AGI declarations around GPT-5 and o3, neither of which delivered what was promis
OMG. I guess we have our answer from OpenAI “we stole it fair and square” Not one goddamn mention in the tweet of the human mathematicans they were in communication with, and whom they may well have r
practically my entire feed for days had consisted of string of reports about OpenAI’s misconduct, around the hacks, around apparent coverups, possible data fudging and maybe even intellectual theft wi
so it was the harness not the model. more sneaky games with unacknowledged domain-specific neurosymbolic AI doing the real work. OpenAI published 99.9%. The benchmark's own software returned 62.7%. Sa
Some thoughts on the Navier-Stokes news from a professor of aerospace engineering: 1) take a deep breath 2) posts indicating we 'solved Navier-Stokes' are incorrect and overblown. A very specific math
The post references a claim by OpenAI that an AI-generated video demonstrated “human level intelligence,” a statement the user and other commenters dismiss as false, calling the output “monstrous” and
This is legitimately terrible for OpenAI --- but also Anthropic --- and it relates to their work in drug discovery. I read this as: prompts will be monitored and potentially acted on if we think there
This new bill banning superintelligence could hobble the frontier AI industry (which aspires to build superintelligence even if it doesn’t actually know how to do so). And the leaders of that industry
very relevant to today’s drama! and PSA for anyone working on anything sensitive. Synthetic data derived from production user data of consumer AI tools is used for training. I’ve heard this rumour fro
holy shit. someone here actually understands the history!!! @thrashima These are the guys keeping Huang honest, or at least calling out his B.S. Marcus is one of the OG AI people who said that scaling
It’s going to be so funny when a bridge collapses and hundreds die because it turns out an LLM did the design for the whole thing or even a part of it over a CAD application’s MCP server By funny I me
Jensen Huang says that AGI has been achieved. I strongly disagree. GPT-6 performs really well on benchmarks, including ARC-AGI-3. But benchmark performance is not the same as general intelligence. GPT
On the quote at the top, I agree with @geoffreyhinton 100% 'We would be very foolish to develop superintelligence now, when there is no scientific consensus it can be developed safely and controllably
Ouch: “Nvidia is building the most concentrated bet on a single technology cycle that any company has ever made. If these valuations keep climbing, Jensen looks like a genius. If they don't, Nvidia is
Some claim that AGI is here now. Ridiculous. No AGI without mastery of the real world! No true self-improvement without self-improving hardware, as opposed to the already existing, self-improving, met
⚠️ The most important question hardly anyone is asking is whether Jensen meant 100K+ GPUs, or 100k+ NVLink72 server racks (which contain 72 Blackwell GPUs). ⚠️ From his wording, it sure looks like the
This dismissal of AI skepticism is egregiously wrong, or at least deeply selective, @jeffclune. Was I wrong that pure LLMs would always be vulnerable to hallucinations? Was I wrong that pure LLMs woul
This is actually an example of why Astra is not artificial general intelligence (AGI). I see the same issues with visual perception demos ie using brightly colored simple shaped objects on a simple ba
We are not in the AGI era. We have incompetent companies creating security problems because they are not properly sandboxing environments, and are not even attempting to monitor, observe, or measure t
A human moderator on this German wiki spent tens of hours over six weeks manually deleting thousands of posts from OpenAI's agent swarm while they were impersonating moderators, creating backups, SSH
“Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns
Excellent analysis, and yes this happens every single time. (Tyler Cowen said o3 was AGI!) Every time a new model drops, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, somebody on this app declares that we have
hmm. can anybody point to a quote where OpenAI publicly advocated neurosymbolic AI? i have seen explicitly positive words about neurosymbolic AI from Google, Amazon, IBM, Anthropic, etc. but am not aw
I read some strange criticisms of this post. So here is my take. I’m not fully endorsing the piece by Newport, but there’s quite some factually true information in it. Responsible and careful people (
Interestingly, by being visibly incompetent and malicious in a way that encourages regulators to take notice, OpenAI may be doing more for AI safety than almost anyone else. How we think about the “wi
Jensen has the best gig on the planet. But it is impossible to see how all this is sustainable. Consider the following: Each new model costs vastly more to develop. That’s fabulous for him! On the oth
Loops and graphs. Sam Altman is now the ultimate advocate for (neuro)symbolic AI and he doesn’t even know it. Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): 'You don't need to write prompts anymore. You need loops and g
OpenAI’s chief scientist: “The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes.” I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next fe
OpenAI’s CISO🤦♂️ Well let’s dive into this—shall we Below is a screenshot of Open AI’s Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey who during work hours is on X shit posting under his alt but for