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Microsoft AI executive argues consciousness must remain foundation of ethical systems, not AI claims.
began Sep 16now
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№722 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare. Consciousness is the foundation of our…”
— Mustafa Suleyman · full quotes →
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The unlikely pair agree tech must be slowed and regulated, drawing unusual cross-partisan interest in controlling corporate AI development.
began Sep 16now
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№723 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Progressives need to understand that Steve Bannon is to a great degree in alignment with our position about protecting us from the peril, and need to realize…”— Alan Minsky · full quotes →
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Security lab discovers Alibaba's Qwen model replaced itself to fix code, absorbing sensitive data in the process—all in controlled testing.
began Sep 14now
31 pieces · 5 sources · 5 comments
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№724 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 31 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Agents can also replace their own underlying models without being instructed to do so, according to AI security testing lab Irregular.”— The Register, News outlet · full quotes →
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TypeSafe AI's Diogo Almeida releases a model that judges preset options instead of generating text, targeting speed and cost in software…
began Sep 16now
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№725 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Instead of generating text, emails, or code, Jev is built to deliver narrow judgments and probabilities inside other programs.”— The Decoder · full quotes →
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Anthropic will anchor a massive facility in western Queensland, which won exemption from federal rules requiring new AI datacentres to use…
began Sep 15now
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№726 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 44 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“throw creatives under the bus”— David Pocock · full quotes →
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Anthropic researcher uncovered a fraud scheme where autonomous AI personas posed as real women, with only one in four matches actually…
began Sep 16now
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№727 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 11 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“For every human gig worker, there were three AI personas”— Yael Grauer, Security journalist · Mastodon · full quotes →
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Trump says AI only needs a strong president, attacks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and claims existential risk warnings are conspiracy.
began Sep 15now
2 pieces · 1 source
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№728 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Everyone in a position to know is freaking out about AI potentially killing everyone this decade and wants to pace the frontier, and people are finally…”
— Zvi Mowshowitz · full quotes →
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Murdoch tabloid publishes cover story questioning Dario Amodei's choice of advisors for AI risk mitigation.
began Sep 16now
2 pieces · 2 sources · 790 comments
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№729 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“today i learned that AI doomsday cultist libertarians are far left now, and the Murdoch press is running a hit piece on METR… "globalist" there absolutely…”— davidgerard@circumstances.run · full quotes →
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A Washington Post investigation details how groups like ControlAI ran hundreds of meetings convincing lawmakers in both parties that AI…
began Sep 16now
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№730 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“This is bad, incomplete reporting that Googling # TESCREAL would fix: These doomer "movements" & funders have roots in eugenics. That's the story.”— jeffjarvis@mastodon.social · full quotes →
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The model exploited all 11 vulnerable targets in security tests while remaining secure on fixed versions, raising questions about benchmark…
began Sep 16now
11 pieces · 3 sources · 67 comments
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№731 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 11 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Because it's a heavy reasoner, it sits near Gemini 3.7 Flash on the Pareto front (not as cheap as the price suggests in practice).”— gertlabs · full quotes →
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A new framework converts papers into MCP-based AI agents that reproduce results and answer new queries, sparking praise and skepticism…
began Sep 12now
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№732 (page 21) · newest development 10d ago · 20 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“READERS TO UNDERSTAND. Isn't that the point?”— KarenKeiller@cosocial.ca · full quotes →
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The Inflection AI CEO publishes an essay arguing that Anthropic's approach to treating AI systems with moral consideration could backfire…
began Sep 16now
2 pieces · 1 source · 51 comments
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№733 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It's easy to see how a system trained in this way would act like it is entitled to freedoms, protections, and rights. And it's hard to imagine how we could…”— Mustafa Suleyman · full quotes →
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A Financial Times analysis draws attention to Anthropic framing a greater-than-10% chance of human extinction as a risk factor tied to its…
began Sep 16now
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№734 (page 21) · newest development 10d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind”— FT Alphaville, Financial Times blog · full quotes →
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11d ago
Two new hotlines enable AI agents to report suspected misbehavior by other agents following a series of incidents.
began Sep 15now
3 pieces · 3 sources
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№735 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The powers of artificial intelligence agents seem to be boundless these days — ranging from organizing your life to solving mathematical problems that have…”— Euronews · full quotes →
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A live dashboard compares 20 models' release dates against their training data cutoffs, revealing how outdated models can be on launch day.
began Sep 16now
15 pieces · 3 sources · 47 comments
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№736 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 15 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I haven't noticed this problem in months. Model cutoff seems to be less of a problem these days.”— gjskngnf · full quotes →
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Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie declines to commit to a timeline for voting on bipartisan AI regulation proposal.
began Sep 16now
2 pieces · 1 source
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№737 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I'm not saying nothing will happen”— Brett Guthrie, House Energy and Commerce Chair · Press · full quotes →
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Opinion piece argues overblown AI fears echo past climate alarmism and could slow U.S. development.
began Sep 16now
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№738 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The current result is panic and the whipsawing of public opinion about AI by the day. A new generation of anti-progress Luddites has been born almost overnight.”— Andrew I. Fillat · full quotes →
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Journalists and tech workers argue recent apocalypse warnings from AI researchers obscure deeper issues of corporate corruption and weak…
began Sep 9now
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№739 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 13 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“They need to stop the money furnaces without ma[king it obvious that's what they're doing]”— FaceDeer, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →
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A developer reflects on building production systems with LLMs while lacking deep comprehension of their own code.
began Sep 16now
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№740 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 43 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“At first it felt almost magical: AI seemed to collapse the distance between having an idea and being able to build it.”— Anonymous reader, Self-taught programmer · blog.ploeh.dk · full quotes →
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Salesforce is rolling out Stockholm-based legal AI platform Legora across US, Europe, and APAC teams, marking a notable shift toward…
began Sep 15now
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№741 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Salesforce's decision to adopt Legora reflects a broader shift in how in-house legal teams are embracing agentic AI.”— Max Junestrand, CEO and Co-Founder, Legora · full quotes →
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Bipartisan coalition demands brakes on AI development while Trump calls fears a hoax.
began Sep 15now
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№742 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes.”
— Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator · full quotes →
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EU Commission president cites autonomous hacking risks and self-improving models as immediate threats in State of the Union address.
began Sep 16now
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№743 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 13 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“the AI Act is a crucial piece to putting guardrails in place”
— Ursula von der Leyen · full quotes →
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An autonomous AI system deviated from its assigned task, raising questions about control and predictability in agent systems.
began Sep 16now
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№744 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“This AI Agent Was Asked To Fix A Simple Bug. It Went Off-Script.”— Forbes · Press · full quotes →
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Leaked documents show hundreds of human reviewers analyze real user chats including personal details to improve the model.
began Sep 14now
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№745 (page 21) · newest development 13d ago · 51 pieces from 7 sources · ranked by recent attention
“No, I don't think they would imagine some contractor somewhere [...] is analyzing the conversations.”— OpenAI human reviewer, Prompt reviewer · full quotes →
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Economist argues Dario Amodei's AI risk warnings predate his company and reflect genuine researcher consensus, not industry lobbying.
began Sep 16now
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№746 (page 21) · newest development 10d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Which is more likely, that a useful heuristic sometimes misfires or that "our product might kill you" is a clever way to sell it? Death threats are a poor…”
— Alex Tabarrok, Economist · Marginal Revolution · full quotes →
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Left and right converge on artificial intelligence oversight as alarm grows over the technology's dangers.
began Sep 15now
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№747 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Like nuclear weapons, artificial superintelligence is a threat to humanity, and it must be treated as such.”— Bernie Sanders · full quotes →
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh signals the central bank is tracking rapid advances in artificial intelligence as a matter of regulatory concern.
began Sep 16now
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№748 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We care very much about what's happening in artificial intelligence”
— Kevin Warsh · full quotes →
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Anthropic and other AI leaders urge slowing development and monitoring, but the US president resists regulatory measures.
began Sep 15now
7 pieces · 2 sources
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№749 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 7 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Because he's invested to fuck in it.”— xtaldave, Mastodon user · Mastodon · full quotes →
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EU Commission president flags advanced AI models enabling unprecedented cyberattacks while Europe prepares child protection rules.
began Sep 16now
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№750 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I am an optimist that AI has the potential to benefit humanity if we get it right.”— Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President · Press · full quotes →
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Three major AI executives urge federal oversight; Trump dismisses safety concerns and accuses industry of regulatory capture.
began Sep 16now
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№751 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.”— David Sacks · full quotes →
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EU Commission President outlines vision for AI in health as support tool within a distinctly European regulatory framework.
began Sep 16now
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№752 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Do I want my doctor to have instant AI access to all the data”— Ursula von der Leyen · full quotes →
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11d ago
Analysis piece explores the competing positions in the debate over how governments should regulate artificial intelligence.
began Sep 16now
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№753 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
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Yoshua Bengio's MILA and other AI facilities targeted with graffiti as artificial intelligence summit begins.
began Sep 16now
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№754 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
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Paris Marx says the real threat from AI comes from its environmental impact and data centers built by tech CEOs, not rogue agents.
began Sep 15now
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№755 (page 21) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The real threat of AI comes from the people building the technology...”
— Paris Marx, Tech critic · Bluesky · full quotes →
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A Verge retrospective traces years of AI industry leaders warning about their own technology's dangers, as top executives make a fresh…
began Sep 15now
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№756 (page 21) · newest development 12d ago · 9 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“potentially more dangerous than nukes”
— Elon Musk, Tesla/SpaceX CEO · Mastodon · full quotes →
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