We’ve spent the last few days doing a deep dive on what went wrong with last week’s GPT-4o update in ChatGPT. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy and the changes we’re going to make in the future:
ETHICS
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Karen Hao’s Book Featured in Vulture’s May Reading List
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Really honored to be on @vulture
's list of books to read in May (alongside the inimitable Ocean Vuong).
"Startling and intensely researched…an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us." -
Tesla Autonomous Driving Fails to Prevent Near-Miss Accident
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La conducción autónoma es sorprendente, pero todavía no es perfecta.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 2 mai 2025
En el vídeo vemos como la rápida reacción del conductor logra evitar un accidente que los sistemas del Tesla no fueron capaces de anticipar. Faltó un pelo… pic.twitter.com/TiHSKHJH4uLa conducción autónoma es sorprendente, pero todavía no es perfecta. En el vídeo vemos como la rápida reacción del conductor logra evitar un accidente que los sistemas del Tesla no fueron capaces de anticipar. Faltó un pelo…
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Dealing with Free Course Requests from Affluent Students
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A person having iphone and ipad is asking me to provide 6 months live course on Agentic AI for free saying that he has financial problem. What to do tell me? I have provided so many free courses to many people thinking there may be some problem that they may be facing including
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Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance
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Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Iason Gabriel: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2504.21848 #AIAgent #AIGovernance #Governance -
Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance
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Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Iason Gabriel: https://
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Cogito Ergo Sum: The Philosophy of AGI and Artificial Consciousness
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"Cogito, ergo sum" "I think, therefore I am" – René Descartes #AGI #AGIAgent #ASI
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Civil Service Incentives and Policy Implementation Failures
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And so our civil service races down an incentive gradient to avoid getting in the paper and avoid the ire of elected officials, who have their own incentive gradient isolating them from policies which they pass.
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Institutional Reform Paradox: Self-Inflicted Problems and Fraud Tolerance
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Some of the problems are self-inflicted, including due to patches for past iterations of reform against graft, waste, and abuse. It's also very difficult to openly pursue tradeoffs, as nobody wants to be the Optimal Level of Fraud is Non-Zero politician or administrator.
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AI Energy Consumption Sustainability Challenge by 2028
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La inteligencia artificial nos hace mucho más productivos, pero… a qué precio?
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 1 mai 2025
Se prevé que en 2028 la ia consuma más energía que países enteros, como España, en un año. Después de lo que vivimos el lunes esto da qué pensar.
Crees que este consumo desorbitado es sostenible? pic.twitter.com/oiyrSd6KtZLa inteligencia artificial nos hace mucho más productivos, pero… a qué precio? Se prevé que en 2028 la ia consuma más energía que países enteros, como España, en un año. Después de lo que vivimos el lunes esto da qué pensar. Crees que este consumo desorbitado es sostenible?