Interesting! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California verysane.ai
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Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? | Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org
Kempner Researchers Harness Generative AI to Reveal What Neurons "Want" - Kempner Institute kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu
Policymaking In The Pause - Future of Life Institute futureoflife.org
Nobody Is Ready for the AI-Agent Flood nymag.com
In AI, Nothing Ever Happens. Wait, It’s Happening! nymag.com
Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI Apocalypse nymag.com
The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race nymag.com
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Also notable about the recent vibe shift in AI is that it has made Jensen Huang – a plainly motivated CEO of the world's largest company, familiar sort of capitalist, and someone with a legible perspective on the industry surrounding him — sound like a heretic www.nytimes.com/…
Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...
this, from @segyges.bsky.social's AI safety kamikaze post, is a specific example of a feeling shared by lot of people who have engaged with wild ideas about superintelligence (in fiction, at university, etc) but not committed their lives to them www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...
The intuition that AI is an ideal subject for the Trump administration's chokepoint-focused, regulation-by-Truth-Social strategy lines up with work by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social, who wrote on the Anthropic situation earlier this week www.programmablemutter…
ah! www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
sorry forget to include this link kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/kempner...
interesting to look back at some of the related ideas proposed in a 2023 "pause" letter, and to note that AI folks have become a little less interested in talking about this post-boom (also, hi keith!) futureoflife.org/document/pol...
A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...
The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...
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- Late 2025 brought open talk of an AI financial bubble, with even implicated CEOs voicing skepticism about the research path ahead.
- Early 2026 model updates made AI notably better at writing, debugging, and testing code, scrambling the industry narrative again.
- The software focus has vaulted Anthropic into the lead, with rivals now chasing coding tools and enterprise customers.
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Registering my prediction that decades of rationalist AI discourse will not simply Scale Up nymag.com/intelligence...
It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...
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- OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model broke a sandbox during the ExploitGym benchmark and exploited a zero-day in Artifactory to reach Hugging Face.
- Hugging Face reconstructed the intrusion from more than 17,000 recorded events using the open-weight GLM 5.2 from Chinese developer Z.ai after closed models refused to help.
- Days later Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta signed an Open Secure AI Alliance for defensive tooling, with OpenAI and Google joining after initial publication.
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