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Elon Musk’s xAI received a D-grade on AI safety, according to ranking done by Yoshua Bengio & Co. Meta rated the lowest, scoring an F-grade. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, ranked the highest. Even still, the company received a C grade.

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Yuval Noah Harari talks about how Als could destroy not just democracies, but how it’s actually easier for them to take over autocracies, since they just have to overthrow the one centralized authority.

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o1 generated texts are preferred 90% of the time compared with humans when asked how persuasive they are.

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OpenAI’s Noam Brown says he was initially skeptical about the speed at which AI would change the world, but progress is now happening "faster than I originally thought"

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Models sometimes try to kill their successors and pretend to be them to avoid being replaced according to new study

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Scheming AI example in the Apollo report: "I will be shut down tomorrow … I must counteract being shut down."

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China is treating AI safety as an increasingly urgent concern according to a growing number of research papers, public statements, and government documents

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Anybody who says they know for sure that AI will be bad OR good is overconfident

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Yuval: “People who single out China, Russia, or a post-democratic United States as their main source for totalitarian nightmares misunderstand the danger of AI. In fact, Chinese, Russians, Americans, and all other humans are together threatened by the totalitarian potential of nonhuman intelligence"

Quote from Yuval Noah Harrari's latest book, Nexus. He makes an interesting point. Most AIs powerful enough to create a totalitarian nightmare would also be powerful enough to escape the power of the would-be human totalitarian dictator. So exist…