1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (446+ words) AI is too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight. Yesterday evening, Amodei gave his answer. He rejected Hegseth's "best and final offer," writing, "I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend…...

18+ hour, 10+ min ago  (169+ words) After refusing to bow to the Pentagon's demands, the company faces what could be the most extreme regulation in the short history of AI. Weeks before Hegseth issued his ultimatum, Amodei opined on his website about the risks involved with…...

23+ hour, 38+ min ago  (89+ words) Even when companies vow to develop AI responsibly, geopolitics may force them to abandon that commitment. Humanity's real problem, the great biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, is that "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." There is no…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (443+ words) When she was three years old, Indrani Das conducted her first scientific experiment. Inspired by a National Geographic feature about fossils found in bright blue Amazon waters, she spent weeks chiseling away at a blue geode with toothpicks, convinced she…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (27+ words) This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens'The Atlantic Someone just put a lot of money on ET. Read: AI is getting scary good at making predictions...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (181+ words) Michael Pollan's new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans. Here is a possibility worth holding in mind, just for a moment. What if humans are something better than machines? For…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (48+ words) AI Is Unlocking a New Way of Doing Math'The Atlantic Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI. Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (140+ words) You don't "train a human" He continued: "The fair comparison is, if you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained to answer that question, versus a human? And probably, AI has already…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1919+ words) Are we in another acceleration phase for AI? Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Anil Dash: A huge part of the cultural tension around these things is everybody advocating them is like, Why wouldn't you love this? And everybody whose…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (81+ words) AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm'The Atlantic The post-chatbot era has begun. Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google's AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs…...