Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A” by MKodama, Thomas Larsen
This criticism of AI 2040: Plan A by Séb Krier unfortunately seriously mischaracterizes our proposal. It also mostly contains flat assertions, not r…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“Better Call Sol The Workhorse” by Zvi
OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“Pausing AI at human level seems harder than pausing ASAP” by MichaelDickens
Cross-posted from my website.
Some people think we should pause AI, but not now. They say we should wait until AI reaches human level, [1] because…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“It’s 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?” by Boaz Barak
[Linkpost to this. Loosely based on a lecture I gave in the recursive conference with the same title. Don’t take “2030” literally¹ —it could also be…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog” by jenn
content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art
Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically b…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“The US Government may find it difficult to seize control during takeoff” by RobertM
Epistemic status: conditioning on things I consider unlikely, many undiscussed considerations, not the whole story, etc. I'm not trying to advance a…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“One-Pager Brief on Pangram Labs” by Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali
Pangram Labs builds the most accurate AI text detector in the world. Team is >25 FTE; they are active on Twitter, you can engage directly, look for …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
“5 “Plan A” scenarios” by Dave Orr
https://ai-2040.com/ is a compelling look at one path forward in a world where the US decides to cooperate with China to slow down transformative AI…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space” by antonghawthorne, Mariia Koroliuk, Irakli Shalibashvili, sidbaines, Clément Dumas, Konstantinos Voudouris, David Africa
This post summarises the paper Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space.
Paper | GitHub | HuggingFace
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“The Human Substitution Test as a Sanity Check for AI Evaluations” by VojtaKovarik, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Mateusz Bagiński
TL;DR: We suggest a sanity check for proposed evaluation or AI oversight schemes: Imagine the AI was replaced by a competent, strategic human — some…
3 weeks ago