Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’
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The Truth Lies Between Alive and Toaster
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Everyone's having the wrong argument about Claude Mythos.
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 8 avril 2026
One side says it's alive. The other says it's a toaster.
Both are missing the 200 pages between those two takes. And that's where the actual story lives.
I read the full 244-page system card.
The real finding has… https://t.co/PpAvng17IS pic.twitter.com/TwGxhBH9xyEveryone's having the wrong argument about Claude Mythos. One side says it's alive. The other says it's a toaster. Both are missing the 200 pages between those two takes. And that's where the actual story lives. I read the full 244-page system card. The real finding has
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Claude Model Evaluation Bias in Character Assessment
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I'm working on character evals and noticed that Claude would constantly pick itself as #1, so I removed the model names from the judge and changed things.
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Meat Differentiation vs Levin’s Blob-like Immortal Planaria
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Meat might be too differentiated already. Mike Levin's immortal planaria are more blobby
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Meta’s New Model Criticized for Benchmark Optimization Over Real Utility
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The new model from Meta is already looking like a disappointment: overoptimized for public benchmark numbers at the detriment of everything else. Knowing how to evaluate models in a way that correlates with actual usefulness is a core competency for AI labs, and any new lab is unlikely to be successful without first figuring that out.
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Human Disagreement on AGI Alignment Remains Fundamental Challenge
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It’s not. But the assumption that humans will agree on AGI alignment before building AGI is inherently flawed. A brief study of human history (or indeed a study AI history) should make that clear.
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Tech Giants AGI Control Poses Existential Risk Society
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This is literally why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley. https://t.co/ihTPmtbU8M
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 8 avril 2026This is literally why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley. Big Brain AI (@realBigBrainAI) Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: "AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research." And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it: "So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation." A corporation that already knows everything about you: "An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data." From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think: "Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism." And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house. He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power: "They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash." The sarcasm is the point. Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one: "That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction." — https://nitter.net/realBigBrainAI/status/2041901452474642630#m
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Newton the Magician: Science as Pattern Recognition
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Keynes acquired Newton's private papers and was shocked at what he found. @michael_nielsen reads the key passage in the essay Keynes published afterwards:
— Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) 8 avril 2026
"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last great mind which looked out on… pic.twitter.com/ACoanqEckbKeynes acquired Newton's private papers and was shocked at what he found. @michael_nielsen reads the key passage in the essay Keynes published afterwards: "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago." And as Michael jokes, what are these great scientists actually doing? Writing down squiggles on a page based on observations and these mysterious cosmic connections, then using it to accomplish miracles. Launching rockets, creating atomic bombs. "That's exactly what magicians do." Keynes was shocked to find that Newton's alchemy and theology used the same methods as his physics: "There was extreme method in his madness. All his unpublished works on esoteric and theological matters are marked by careful learning, accurate method and extreme sobriety of statement. They are just as sane as the Principia, if their whole matter and purpose were not magical. They were nearly all composed during the same twenty-five years of his mathematical studies."
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AI Companions: Short-term Comfort, Long-term Risk for Lonely Users
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#AI companions can comfort lonely users but may deepen distress over time
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 8 avril 2026
by Aalto University @TechXplore_com
Learn more: https://t.co/4U6LpqTo2b#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL pic.twitter.com/EPCji97wij#AI companions can comfort lonely users but may deepen distress over time by Aalto University @TechXplore_com Learn more: bit.ly/3OjC7pm #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL
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AI Performance Drift and Human Oversight in Future Systems
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Yeah, it's interesting how it drifts and gets lazy over time. Even with an amazing memory and rule set. I guess there still is a role for humans in the future. "Keep your lazy AIs working hard." 🙂