Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives
“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”
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AI #158: The Department of War
This was the worst week I have had in quite a while, maybe ever.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Aces Benchmarks, I Suppose
I’ve been trying to find a slot for this one for a while.
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A Tale of Three Contracts
The attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations.
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Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
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How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
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Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk
This is the long version of what happened so far.
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Is AI already killing people by accident?
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
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Did Trump just overplay his hand?
We will learn a lot about Silicon Valley in the upcoming days
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Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions
”No LLM, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system. It's ludicrous even to suggest it.”
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Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?
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