Hannah Fry on the 'gorilla problem': "As human intelligence has evolved, our impact on the world has left gorillas on the brink of extinction ... It is a warning about the risks of building machines that are vastly more intelligent than us."

I'm honored to be featured in PauseAI ⏸'s newsletter! Snippet below👇 Joep Meindertsma ⏸ asked: So you talked about how fear could limit people's actions or what they believe they can actually achieve. Can you talk a little bit more about how that impacted you and how you were

How do we get ppl at scale to intuitively understand wtf is actually going on with AI? Perhaps leverage their training data so they pattern match, that right now, we're soon in a world similar to the ones depicted in sci-fi, that the default outcome is really bad if we pursue

Weirdly most ppl I talk to in the Bay area believe "Superintelligence will end humanity". Please note "will", not "could" (!) Anyway, fantastic day Stanford University yesterday with lots of curious people wanting to learn more!

AI experts have been surprised again again from their predictions coming in true earlier than expected. We don't know how to control ASI. Let us pause while we can.

We propose a normative guiding principle: No superintelligence. Most AI is a beneficial tool for human growth. Superintelligence is a successor species. We should understand the latter as a hyper-capable adversary to contain, and build our defenses against.

While some say a new AI winter is coming, this paper on Test-Time Training (TTT) tells a different story - it shows that we can update a models parameters during inference. Unlike finetuning, TTT can operate in a low-data regime. There is no wall, scaling has just begun. We

Public commitment: I'll read a book, take notes and share. Every week, starting Monday

The Guide to Going Viral, 9/10 It's a literal stepwise manual for making viral video content. A few key general takeaways: You need to grab attention, get them to stop scrolling, then hold their attention. Substance is vital. You need people to love your content to come back

o3, endgame confirmed

🥔 Sentient AI with rights? Dan Hendrycks (@DanHendrycks) says they'd be like an invasive species—but with exponentially faster growth. Humans would be the endangered species.