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Sam Altman emails Elon Musk in 2015: "we structure it so the tech belongs to the world via a nonprofit… Obviously, we’d comply with/aggressively support all regulation."

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Sundar Pichai says the real power of AI is its ability to improve itself: "AlphaGo started from scratch, not knowing how to play Go… within 4 hours it’s better than top-level human players, and in 8 hours no human can ever aspire to play against it."

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Researchers discovered Claude 4 Opus scheming and "playing dumb" to get deployed: "We found the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself to undermine its developers intentions."

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Weird timeline… JD Vance has read AI 2027 ("I’m worried about this stuff") and believes that if AI gets out of control, it would be hard to pause, but papal intervention could help: "I think this is one of the most positive things that Pope Leo could do, not just for the church but for the world."

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Sergey Brin: "We don’t circulate this too much in the AI community… but all models tend to do better if you threaten them – with physical violence. People feel weird about it, so we don’t talk about it … Historically, you just say, ‘I’m going to kidnap you if you don’t blah blah blah.’

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Sergey Brin: "We don’t circulate this too much in the AI community… but all models tend to do better if you threaten them – with physical violence. People feel weird about it, so we don’t talk about it … Historically, you just say, ‘I’m going to kidnap you if you don’t blah blah blah.’

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Dario Amodei speaks out against Trump’s bill banning states from regulating AI for 10 years: "We’re going to rip out the steering wheel and can’t put it back for 10 years."

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Dario Amodei speaks out against Trump’s bill banning states from regulating AI for 10 years: "We’re going to rip out the steering wheel and can’t put it back for 10 years."

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OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: "allow yourself to be shut down."

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Anthropic researcher: "We want Claude n to build Claude n+1, so we can go home and knit sweaters."

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