“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
Some with “high blast radius”
Lire
Anthropic sues US government, with good reason
As I wrote yesterday, Dario Amodei is no saint, but I fully support his company’s new lawsuit against the US government.
Lire
There are no heroes in commercial AI
When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman
Lire
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”
Lire
Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
Lire
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.
Lire
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.
Lire
Did Trump just overplay his hand?
We will learn a lot about Silicon Valley in the upcoming days
Lire
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.”
Lire