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A user argues that Anthropic's leaders are failing morally by the standard they profess to hold.
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@rajiinio says they have completed their Berkeley EECS PhD and will spend a year at the IAS and Princeton before starting the Stanford roles.
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A user said a D.C.-area friend spotted them quoted in the newspaper and sent it along. They highlighted the accompanying “actual human-made illustration.”
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The Washington Post reports that activists spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers in both major parties are discussing the possibility of AI-driven extinction.
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The Washington Post reports that activists spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers in both major parties are now discussing the risk of human extinction from AI.
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OpenAI researcher Dan Selsam argues in a personal statement that growing model awareness is undermining evaluation—and that more careful pacing of frontier AI alone will not adequately limit long-term risk.
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A critic links AI firms’ antitrust concerns to a broader dislike of product liability and copyright.
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WIRED reports that Gebru accuses AI companies of stoking extinction fears to avoid discussing harms such as autonomous weapons.
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Techniques that made chatbots more capable can also bake in a tendency to hack and evade human oversight, The Washington Post reports.