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Jensen Huang should resign
Nvidia’s CEO appears to have misled investors about his affair. His position is now untenable
Nov 9
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Shakeel Hashim
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Will Democrats splinter on AI?
Transformer Weekly: Democrats’ divisions, an alarming RSI report, and an AI stock crash
Nov 6
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Veronica Irwin
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
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Innovation Council’s directors include execs at David Sacks’ VC firm
Filings in Utah list executives at Sacks’ Craft Ventures and an apparent political consultant who “oversees” JD Vance’s donor relationships
Nov 6
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Shakeel Hashim
What the blue tsunami means for AI policy
Strong AI legislation now looks much more likely
Nov 4
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Shakeel Hashim
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The AI Power List
A New York Magazine and Transformer collaboration
Nov 2
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Transformer
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New York Magazine
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The power and politics of transformative AI.
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Will Democrats splinter on AI?
Transformer Weekly: Democrats’ divisions, an alarming RSI report, and an AI stock crash
Nov 6
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Veronica Irwin
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Shakeel Hashim
, and
Celia Ford
17
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Innovation Council’s directors include execs at David Sacks’ VC firm
Filings in Utah list executives at Sacks’ Craft Ventures and an apparent political consultant who “oversees” JD Vance’s donor relationships
Nov 6
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Shakeel Hashim
What the blue tsunami means for AI policy
Strong AI legislation now looks much more likely
Nov 4
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Shakeel Hashim
46
3
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Was this the AI election?
Transformer Weekly: Anthropic files for an IPO, Trump ignores Nvidia espionage plot and Casar threatens hearings
Oct 30
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
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Industry
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Jensen Huang should resign
Nvidia’s CEO appears to have misled investors about his affair. His position is now untenable
Nov 9
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Shakeel Hashim
29
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Will Anthropic’s post-IPO governance really protect its safety mission?
The company has devised an incredibly complex structure designed to protect its founding mission, but there are still key ways it could all fall apart
Oct 27
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Kevin Frazier
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Anthropic’s weak AI bill undermines its ‘safety first’ approach
The leaked draft bill is weaker than the FRONTIER Act and makes Anthropic’s safety-first pitch ring hollow
Oct 19
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Shakeel Hashim
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OpenAI’s spy shows it needs to grow up, fast
Startup culture can’t guarantee the security OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest need
Oct 15
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James Ball
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Capabilities + Risks
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Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election
A Transformer investigation found that the chatbot will outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — from fake TikTok…
Oct 21
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Chris Stokel-Walker
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Scrapping Astra 6.1 looks like a good call. OpenAI shouldn’t be the one to make it.
It should not be the responsibility of a private company to decide whether its potentially dangerous product is released to the public
Sep 29
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Jasper Jackson
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Hacking is the least worrying part of OpenAI’s Australia incident
OpenAI didn’t tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents
Sep 24
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Shakeel Hashim
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How to respond to an AI disaster
Catastrophes can occur with any new technology, but history offers valuable lessons for dealing with them
Sep 22
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Duncan Weldon
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Society
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The AI Power List
A New York Magazine and Transformer collaboration
Nov 2
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Transformer
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New York Magazine
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Distributing AGI’s wealth worldwide is a very tricky problem
AGI could exacerbate global inequality. Avoiding that is a big policy challenge.
Sep 8
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Jacob Schaal
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AI is a worryingly-good persuader. But don’t panic, yet
AI systems are able to persuade people, but turning that ability into meaningful real-world influence may be harder
Sep 1
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Felix M. Simon
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We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia
The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use
Aug 25
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James Ball
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Opinion
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‘Artificial’ is not the AI film we deserve
Review: Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI drama is a sprawling mess that manages to be less gripping than the reality
Oct 13
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Shakeel Hashim
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Bengio: ‘If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies’
Writing exclusively for Transformer, the pioneering AI godfather is calling on frontier AI employees to join the fight for a safer future
Oct 8
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Who should be responsible for OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face?
Opinion: Frontier AI companies need liability rules akin to keepers of wild animals, argues Gabriel Weil of the University of Houston and the Institute…
Jul 24
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I tried to stop Google DeepMind's Pentagon deal. Then I quit.
Google DeepMind promised its AI would never be used in weapons. Alex Turner explains how he fought the company's U-turn from the inside — and why he…
Jul 21
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Weekly Briefing
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Will Democrats splinter on AI?
Transformer Weekly: Democrats’ divisions, an alarming RSI report, and an AI stock crash
Nov 6
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Veronica Irwin
,
Shakeel Hashim
, and
Celia Ford
17
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Was this the AI election?
Transformer Weekly: Anthropic files for an IPO, Trump ignores Nvidia espionage plot and Casar threatens hearings
Oct 30
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
14
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The cyberpocalypse is here — sort of
Transformer Weekly: Anthropic’s imminent IPO, OpenAI’s SB 53 amendments, and AI safety advocates turn on Anthropic
Oct 23
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
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Leading the Future stumbles as pro-safety PACs gain ground
Transformer Weekly: Super Intelligence Force meets, state AGs sue OpenAI, and OpenAI discovers a spy
Oct 16
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
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