Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what? So everyone’s concerned about these negative effects, and everyone said that when we got to these thresholds, that we would…
The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all “On the other hand, the agents were unambiguously bad at carrying out the research itself,” says Kapoor. They ran bizarre…
The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem Cheap, accessible models now produce weaponized deepfakes—from sexually explicit images to political propaganda—that look startlingly real. They’re already inciting violence,…