Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence…
Category: Primers
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
Zoë Schiffer: This is a conversation? Brian Barrett: It is though. So I’m talking over you because— Zoë Schiffer: No, no, do it. Brian Barrett:…
Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
On Tuesday, executives for Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia all signed “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which was announced following a…
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
Yesterday, I spent the morning at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, where over 2,500 nerds discussed building software and marveled at the latest artificial intelligence models. The…
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We’ve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI…
Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a…
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
OpenAI has cancelled plans to release its latest GPT-6.1 Astra system next month after the model failed to meet safety standards. Research and safety leaders…
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
Going rogue. Breaking containment. Misalignment. P(doom). As the industry booms, an entirely new vernacular has emerged in the debates over how consequential artificial intelligence really…