Inlay

I think it is really worth reading this piece on RSI at Anthropic. There is a bit of navel-gazing, some marketing, and a lot of very sincere beliefs about what Anthropic thinks is likely in the near future of AI that you probably want to be aware of. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

Surprise surprise! It is WHAT is processed and not HOW or HOW MUCH it is processed that matters for health. This is EXACTLY the argument that Gabriel Rosenberg and I made in Feed the People! using many of these same studies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guarantees are developed and demonstrated. (1/2)

Arrêtez la bidoche. C'est une catastrophe aussi bien éthique qu'écologique. On peut se nourrir autrement. Ce n'est ni plus difficile ni plus coûteux (contrairement à ce qu'on entend souvent). "Décarner" son alimentation est l'acte individuel le plus impactant sur le plan écologique (et politique).

J'ai beaucoup apprécié mon récent passage à C dans lair pour discuter des risques de l'IA pour nos sociétés, nos économies, et nos démocraties. Merci Caroline Roux pour l'invitation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNCu...

I’ve been writing a lot of long deep dives recently and wanted to step back and write a quick rant about why I’m consistently landing so hard in the skeptic corner in the data center debate blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-thin...

Apparently superhuman performance from the AI in answering questions about contract law in this paper, as judged by law professors compared to the answers of their peers -Gemini 2.5 had a 75% win rate vs. professors -Gemini's answers were rated LESS harmful than humans -Newer models do even better

🥚 TOUTE LA SOUFFRANCE DANS UN OEUF 🔥 Nouvel épisode stratégie Je reçois Keyvan Mostafavi, directeur d'Anima, pour parler de la souffrance des poules pondeuses On soulève des questions épineuses : végétarisme, effets de substitution, mesure de la souffrance – des réflexions utiles pour le mouvement

I asked ChatGPT to make an XKCD-style “pain vs. duration” chart about when to see a doctor. It came up with this. Honestly… it might be closer to real humor than I expected

Announcement that ‘policymakers’ need to be convened by US firm viewed as marketing ploy by some experts Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI – in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products. In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards “recursive self improvement” – that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of AI safety researchers, viewed as the key step for AI to become superintelligent and therefore unleash widespread consequences on humanity. Continue reading...