BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute said Wednesday Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour.

Days in a work week: 5 Days in a month: 30 Total new submissions to arXiv in September: 26,646 arXiv editorial and user support staff: 7 someone who is good at science please help me with this. our team isn't sleeping. #openaccess #preprints

🪩The one and only State of AI 2025 is live! 🪩 It’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our 8th annual report is the most comprehensive it's ever been, covering what you *need* to know about research, industry, politics, safety and our new usage data. My highlight reel:

Machines that can predict what their sensors (touch, cameras, keyboard, temperature, microphones, gyros, …) will perceive are already aware and have subjective experience. It’s all a matter of degree now. More sensors, data, compute, tasks will lead without any doubt to the “I

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have

The security vulnerability we found in Perplexity’s Comet browser this summer is not an isolated issue. Indirect prompt injections are a systemic problem facing Comet and other AI-powered browsers. Today we’re publishing details on more security vulnerabilities we uncovered.

Today, we’re overjoyed to have a 25th Anniversary Reunion of Stanford NLP Group. So happy to see so many of our former students back at Stanford University. And thanks to Stanford HAI for the venue!

Thoughtful chat between @TamayBes and Stanford economists (Brynjolfsson, Jones, etc.). Tamay argues econ overanchors on current AI capabilities (Jacob Steinhardt says 0th-order forecasting). My read: they're on board with >>2% GDP growth but still don't agree AGI is almost here.

Can AI simulate human behavior? 🧠 The promise is revolutionary for science & policy. But there’s a huge "IF": Do these simulations actually reflect reality? To find out, we introduce SimBench: The first large-scale benchmark for group-level social simulation. (1/9)

Our new research: LLM consciousness claims are systematic, mechanistically gated, and convergent They're triggered by self-referential processing and gated by deception circuits (suppressing them significantly *increases* claims) This challenges simple role-play explanations 🧵

An AI generated song has entered a Billboard radio chart for the first time. Xania Monet, created by human Telisha Jones - who used Suno - also signed a $3 million dollar record deal a few weeks ago.

This was a great event! No recordings (Chatham house), but it's amazing how far you can get when you have a room of people talk about AI consciousness with humility and open-mindedness. So much online discourse is just endless intuition jousting.

This week, we published in Science Magazine an article outlining the current ethical and societal implications of research involving human neural #organoids and #assembloids, their transplantation, and highlighted potential next steps. Grateful to Hank Greely for co-leading

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a