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Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.

Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?

Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?

An Alignment Journal: Features and policies — LessWrong
We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features…

Introduction to Agents
Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up

Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement

Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
When do we build the moon arcology?

AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...

AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]

Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

Towards self-driving codebases · Cursor
We're making a part of our multi-agent research harness available to try today in preview.

Cosmik Updates: February 2026 - Cosmik Labs
@atproto.science @cosmik.network Raising a question for the ATProto science community: Can AI agents be legitimate participants in research ecosystems? What would make their outputs trustworthy?
Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...