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It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior.

It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ and reports from OpenAI that try to establish how unnerving and powerful (not to ment...


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Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.

Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant hypothetical future, but in the next few years. Understandably, this created a tsunami of media attention and anxious discussion.

I added to this debate with a


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Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.

Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he ​explained on X​: “[OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”

A former AI lab employee making these types of claims isn’t unpr...


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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
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Are We at War with AI Agent "Civilizations”?
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