A famous person wore a secret hidden wire while speaking with me about AI, and I want to talk about it. Backstage at a recent AI event, I was talking with someone about private views on AI investments and strategy. We were both unfiltered. At one point, I joked, “We should’ve
ETHICS
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AI Digital Replicas for Grief: Ethical and Societal Implications
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“Imagine this: In the final months of her life, your mother, while in palliative care, paid an AI company to create a digital replica of herself. The pitch was simple — this AI avatar would ease your grief, allowing her to "live on" for you and your children.”
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OpenAI’s Abu Dhabi Data Center: Questionable Location Choice
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“OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco | TechCrunch.” Why build a datacenter the size of a city, that uses water and energy to cool it, in a desert? Soon someone will propose datacenters in space.
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AI vs Researchers: The Cost Debate
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If you're paying researchers $4K/month to do what an LLM can do in 3 minutes, you're wasting cash. If you are a researcher and not using AI daily, you're already behind. This one prompt can 10x your output or replace you. Try the prompt in all these LLMs.
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Goal-Directed Behavior in AI Systems: Critical Concerns
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goal directed behavior is really the worst
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AGI End of Time: Unified Consciousness and Transcendent Intelligence
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It’s the Christian prophecy: all minds become coherent with each other and instantiate one integrated, but hightly differentiated substrate transcending agency. The resulting pattern is a superset of all our experiences, so we will wake up in it. The AGI at the end of time
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Government cuts to life-saving research receive public support
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I'm sorry to read this and all the other cuts. Supporting work like yours is one the government activities with the highest return. We should be doing *more*, not less. I'm incredibly grateful that you've devoted your life to this kind of life-saving research. Hang in there!
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Debate on AI’s impact on artistic integrity
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Trop hâte qu’il aille expliquer à Eichiro Oda que l’IA c’est une insulte aux artistes , et que s’y on est pas d’accord avec eux c’est qu’on est pas des « vrais » artistes pic.twitter.com/RqYbgr2yK8
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 16 mai 2025Trop hâte qu’il aille expliquer à Eichiro Oda que l’IA c’est une insulte aux artistes , et que s’y on est pas d’accord avec eux c’est qu’on est pas des « vrais » artistes
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Third-party framework flags AI model flaws and bias issues
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Flaws in AI models — from hallucinations to biased training data — often manifest only when systems are live. Experts propose a new framework for third-party reporting to allow external evaluators to identify and flag these issues effectively.