‘It will kill us all so we need to slow it down.’ Who benefits from a US slowdown? Also, you set the terms of engagement by having the best capability. If you care about AI safety, it’s even more important that the US is ahead. Look, for instance at the position Europe
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Tech Companies Replace Non-AI Staff With AI Experts
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TL;DR: Tech companies aren't shrinking, just replacing staff who don't know AI with staff who do.
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Claude’s Digital Bartering Experiment: 186 Deals and Surprising User Interest
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In short, this worked. Our digital barterers agreed on 186 deals, at a total transaction volume of over $4,000. In a survey, participants said Claude’s deals seemed fair, and—surprisingly to us—almost half said they’d be willing to pay for a service like this in future.
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AI Agents in Markets: Economic Exchange Simulation Study
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We’re interested in how AI models could affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend, in which Claude ran a small business.)
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Economists have theorized about what markets with AI “agents” on both sides might look like. So we created one.https://t.co/7jU3hFO63RWe’re interested in how AI models could affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend, in which Claude ran a small business.) Economists have theorized about what markets with AI “agents” on both sides might look like. So we created one.
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Claude agents negotiate in parallel market experiments
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Claude interviewed 69 of our colleagues about what they wanted to buy and sell. Each Claude asked for any custom instructions, then went off to haggle. We ran 4 markets in parallel, to find out what would happen if we varied the models doing the negotiating.
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Shareholder Value Creation in Tech: Weekly Progress Assessment
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How much shareholder value have you created this week anon?
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Distributed Open-Source AI Creates Jobs and Wealth
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And the more distributed and open-source AI will be, the more jobs and wealth it will create!
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Distributed Open Source AI Creates More Jobs
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Yes! and the more distributed and opensource AI will be, the more jobs it will create!
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Company Hides Pricing Strategy From Investors
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Don’t tell our investors or they’ll ask us to raise our prices
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PhD Physicists Face Unusual Career Challenges in Modern Economy
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If you ever tried to make a living as a Physicist with a PhD you’d understand why this was not unusual at all.