Analysis

AI embraces crypto’s dirty politics

A new super PAC network looks set to spend millions to influence AI regulation

Aug 26 •

A roundup of AI psychosis stories

Concerning anecdotes keep piling up

Aug 21 •

Anthropic’s piracy could make its copyright battle existential

Anthropic could have to pay billions in damages — and others may follow

Aug 19 •

Donald Trump is making Chinese AI great again

Giving China access to advanced chips for a $2bn payoff is a bad deal for US security

Aug 11 •

UK launches £15 million AI alignment project

“Alignment is one of the most urgent technical challenges of our time,” the government said.

Jul 30 •

Why is Hugging Face hosting tools to make deepfake porn of teenage celebrities?

The “ethical” AI company is hosting models designed to make nonconsensual sexual content, despite clear breaches of its policies

Jul 23 •

Misaligned AI is no longer just theory

A host of new evidence shows that misalignment is possible — but it's unclear whether harm will follow

May 21 •

Book Review: ‘The Optimist’ and ‘Empire of AI’

Two new books try to unmask Sam Altman and OpenAI, to varying degrees of success

May 19 •

We need to know what’s happening with AI

Without transparency, society is flying blind toward potentially catastrophic AI capabilities

May 15 •

The quest to build better defenses for AI risks

'Societal resilience' measures might offer some protection to the proliferation of dangerous AI capabilities

Mar 20 •

AI coding tools are quietly reshaping software development

They’re making an economic impact, despite not being very good yet

Feb 27 •

Decentralized training isn't a policy nightmare — yet

Governments should still be able to keep track of who's training frontier models — though a shift to reinforcement learning could make that harder

Feb 13 •

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