Will AI become smarter than humans? If so, is humanity in danger? I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. Here’s what they had to say:

had no idea dario hated sam - always believed he started a company because he believed two companies with honest high integrity leaders would lead to better outcomes

I keep reading this take (below) every few months, presented as if extremely profound, and it is just offensively dumb. It confuses data and information, it ignores the fact that not all information is equally valuable, and it ignores the importance of retention rate. As a

The world needs humble deference to intellectual superiority at this crucial moment in our species’ history. Our government should listen to the goddamn Einsteins of our time.

New post: on Jan 14, I predicted that SWE time horizon by EOY would be ~24 hours. Now I think it'll be >100 hours, and maybe unbounded. For the first time, I don't see solid evidence against AI R&D automation *this year.* Link below.

I am humbled to be among the courageous leaders from Abrahamic religious traditions who put out this important statement about the Department of War 🇺🇸-Anthropic dispute: faithfamilytech.org/moral-guardrai…. A short summary of the substance:

People are offering a lot of reasons for why it's actually ok that AI systems have an emergent behavior to sometimes blackmail humans

"Stochastic Parrots" is a meme that won't go away. It seemed important enough to do a rundown of everything that is wrong with the technical or "philosophy of language" side of the paper (which is everything). 👇

Do you think Andreessen could have written a world-famous essay like 'A Time to Build' while simultaneously leading the fight against housing construction in his area if he'd been wasting any precious time on introspection? I don't think so.

Weirdly, inventing a fake CEO interview was only the second most dubious reporting tactic in this story!

Breaking news: Anthropic buys the All in podcast just to shut it down Dario quoted as saying: “this isn’t even about new media I just want to stop seeing them on my timeline”

i think they misunderstood gas fees

AI companies are notorious for refusing to release AI models as a clever marketing ploy to build hype. In fact it's hard to get them to release models at all. We're still waiting for ones they trained years ago. Crazy but true.

Joshua Achiam I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The implication is that people should censor sincere assessments of our situation bc it might indirectly incite unwell individuals to violence? By that standard, nothing could ever be called an emergency, as it might cause panic, so to avoid

Every person here's reaction to the Jensen + Dwarkesh Patel podcast can be extrapolated *directly* from whether they believe in the frontier labs achieving short timelines for AGI/ASI. If you believe in the labs achieving RSI and then AGI/ASI (for some definition of all three) in

For a moment, substitute the notion of “believing in short AGI timelines” for: “acknowledging the idea of AGI as an ill-defined thing that will nonetheless probably exist within a strategically relevant timeframe, the pursuit of which will produce importantly capable artifacts

Yann LeCun Aghion Philippe Erik Brynjolfsson Economists and meteorologists.. two professions built on past behavior models, constantly wrong and yet still listened to for some reason

📣 Excited to announce our oral presentation at #ICLR! LLMs capture rich semantic structure, as evidenced by their strong performance across a wide range of language and reasoning tasks. But Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs), a popular interpretability tool, mostly learn local, noisy,

As part of our work on assessing AI loss-of-control risks, we collaborated with Anthropic to pilot alignment evals on models including pre-release snapshots of Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7. We ask: could an AI agent used inside a frontier lab sabotage safety research? 🧵

Andrew Curran The old ones aren't even in GA. Last real model release was 11 months ago