I. H.G. Wells’ 1914 sci-fi book The World Set Free did a pretty good job predicting nuclear weapons:They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands…before the l…
The ATOM Project - American Truly Open Models
Reinvigorating AI research in the U.S. by building leading, open models in America
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
The AI people have been right a lot
Try to keep an open mind as the world gets increasingly wild.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
Unpacking Open Source Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models
Openness has long driven innovation in software,9 and AI is no exception.12 While some see openness in foundation models (FMs) as a security threat,18 others argue that restricting access will not meaningfully reduce risk and will limit the benefits of transparency, research, and global participation.3 As the EU AI Act reporting requirements on FMs—also referred to as general-purpose AI models (GPAIMs)—move toward implementation, there is an urgent need for a more nuanced and informed understanding of openness in AI systems.
We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't
AI and the techno-utopian path not taken
Open access // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
The AI Model That Was Too Dangerous to Release: Meet Claude Mythos
Anthropic just built the most powerful AI in history. Then decided the world wasn’t ready for it. Here’s everything you need to know.
70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
Paper: Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
URL and discussions of the paper "Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies"
AI Research Evaluation: Negative Findings and Failure Modes | Arvind Narayanan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
📢 New paper: Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But most evaluations of agents conducting AI research focus on narrow, verifiable tasks. Can AI agents… | Sayash Kapoor
My claude is constantly wanting to 'A/B test' things instead of actually just doing the thing I told her to do, and constantly wants to fall…
A snapshot of research into answering if frontier AI agents can run R&D into AI (which not surprisingly failed apart from "minor findings…
This is definitely my feeling working with them on recommendation algorithm.
"This paper prompted Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of Anthropic to post this to their news letter: 'the singularity could be delayed'".
