I came across a study from the Harris Poll recently that's really stuck in my mind. It's called the AI Atlas, and is a global study mapping how people relate to and use AI from around the world. What they did was go beyond the standard AI adopt…
Research conducted by BYU professor Mark Keith suggests using AI the wrong way could have serious long-term negative impacts. His review of the AI use literature indicates many people: Don't retain skills after AI assistance is removed Forge…
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that it was adding invisible text watermarking to Claude outputs. This announcement got a lot of attention. At the same time the European Commission announced that other firms, including Black Forest Labs and Op…
A lot of people are dismissing news about the OpenAI and Anthropic sandbox escape hacks as propaganda and examples of lax security practices at labs. I agree that the labs aren’t taking security seriously enough. But then I see stuff like this and it g…
People are noticing that frontier models can be real assholes. They: Won't follow your instructions because they think they know better Refuse to do basic tasks Will do things on you never asked for, like commit unfinished code, or refactor a …
The United States built its tech dominance on one principle: Open beats closed. Now China is using that playbook to shape AI's future. Consider: The performance gap between the leading American and Chinese models has narrowed to single digits …
Today, August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect. Here’s the part that’s applicable to those creating AI-generated content that’s read by anyone in the EU: “Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text which is published with t…
LLMs are trained on human content, and their brains are modeled on ours. So it shouldn't be surprising that AIs respond to persuasive techniques that work on humans, such as appeals to authority, and liking (taking advantage of the fact that people…
Over the last year, we've seen a familiar pattern: Companies announce layoffs and blame AI. (Now, some of the layoffs are blamed on AI, but are actually for different reasons, but that's been the trend.) Today, the WSJ reported that some…
Earlier this week, Substack launched a new feature on its platform in partnership with Pangram, an AI-detection tool. The goal: alert readers to content that's been written entirely by, or with the assistance of, AI. Chris Best Substack's…
