Has humanity lost the instructions for its own creation? In an op-ed published in the journal Science, Eric Horvitz and Robert West warn about entering the era of 'operational opacity': AI is beginning to understand us better than we understand it.
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Cutting-edge AI suspended by presidential decree for national security
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World first: a cutting-edge AI suspended by presidential decree. Anthropic cut Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on orders from Washington. Reason: national security. Europe discovers this morning that it rents its brain to a nation that can unilaterally disconnect it. The
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Risks of rushing toward super-AI: generation, jobs, democracy
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@dr_l_alexandre wants to rush toward super-AI. Me, I have time and that's why I measure the risk. 25 years: I have time to see what the rush hides: a precarious generation, liquidated jobs, and a democracy that hasn't digested the rupture. Who decides
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AI creates a new class of educated losers
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AI creates a new class: educated losers. Turchin in Le Figaro: the market was already saturated with higher education graduates before AI. It now halves their job prospects. Educated, ambitious young people with no place at the top. The overproduction of elites is
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AI creates a class of degree-holding losers
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AI creates a new class: degree-holding losers. Turchin in Le Figaro: the market was already saturated with higher education graduates before AI. It now halves their job prospects. Educated, ambitious young people with no place at the top. The overproduction of elites is
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AI Understands Humans Better, Humans Less AI: Three Trends
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AI understands humans better and better. Humans understand AI less and less. 3 trends are emerging: recursive self-improvement, proliferation of agents, persistent integration into daily life. Result: increasing behavioral opacity. The window for
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Pope Leo XIV excommunicates ChatGPT, the soulless AI but shareholder
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Someone had to eventually excommunicate ChatGPT. It will be the Pope. Leo XIV, the first American pope in history, has just brought before the court of morality the most American industry there is. The algorithm has no soul. But it has a shareholder.
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Critique of Laurence Devillers’ Contradictions on LLMs
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Laurence Devillers, you say everything and its opposite. For years, you have explained to us that LLMs were hollow, without personality, and incapable of reaching a level comparable to that of humans. Today, you are alarmed that Claude seems to develop https:// x.com/lau_devil/stat /lau_devil/status/2062767846397039062 …
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SaaS to AI: End of Software Publisher Model and Middle White-Collar Workers
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SaaS sold you a tool. AI sells you the result. This shift of three words is the death of the software publisher model. It is also the death of a massive fraction of intermediate white-collar workers. The developer no longer produces code. He validates an architecture.
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The true cost of AI: every query has its price
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For three years, AI was served to us as a free meal. That's over. Its real cost is not training it, but running it endlessly. Each query is a meter ticking. The token, the unit of consumption for models, becomes to AI what the barrel