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What happens when the AI bubble bursts?
The world is prepping for an AI crash. History points to what that might look like
Oct 16
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James Ball
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AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy
Opinion: Felix M Simon argues that AI is unlikely to significantly shape election results in the near future, but warns that it could damage democracy…
Oct 1
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No, ChatGPT isn’t ‘making us stupid’
— but there’s still reason to worry
Sep 24
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Celia Ford
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Would democracy survive an AGI-supercharged economy?
AGI could lead to growth of 30% — and double digit unemployment. It’s not clear that democratic institutions would be able to survive
Sep 18
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We’re getting the argument about AI's environmental impact all wrong
Individual ChatGPT queries are a rounding error — we need to think about the future
Sep 9
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James Ball
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AI’s child safety failures are becoming unignorable
Transformer Weekly: Sriram Krishnan on AGI, Meta’s talent drain, and Huawei’s chip production
Aug 29
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
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A roundup of AI psychosis stories
Concerning anecdotes keep piling up
Aug 21
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Marty Swant
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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
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Shakeel Hashim
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AI unemployment discourse is heating up
Transformer Weekly: Amodei’s job warning, US AISI rebranding, and a new DeepSeek model
May 30
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Shakeel Hashim
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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
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Shakeel Hashim
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The dangers of sycophancy
Transformer Weekly: GPT-4o rollback, changes to the diffusion rule, and the US fights the EU AI Act
May 2
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Shakeel Hashim
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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
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Lynette Bye
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