UCSB Talk Maps AI Progress from Compute to Catastrophic Risks

[1]: https://epoch.ai/trends [2]: https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/the-least-understood-driver-of-ai-progress [3]: https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-survey/ [4]: https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-03-13-apple-picking-ai.html [5]: https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-19-frontier-risk-report/

The last line would probably be better: "Impressive autonomy, but not human level; a lot of reward hacking, some deception, but no egregious scheming yet."