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- LessWrongsafetyNYT Editorial Board Comes Out Against Extinction
( Archive link ) The NYT editorial board's article on AI is far better than I'd expected, but at the same time not all I'd hoped for. The title sets off very well: "Humanity Has Avoided Apocalypse Before. Let’s Do It Aga…
- BBC TechnologysafetyNot all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings.
- LessWrongsafetyWe are not prepared to win
TL;DR: It would be nice to survive for a long time and be happy about it. It doesn't look like we'll be happy about it right now. We should change that by putting more effort into making sure we'll be happy about it. Som…
- LessWrongcommunityCommon mistakes in AI safety group organizing
Back in the day, I was a very active AI safety group organizer. I commonly notice people making the same mistakes across many clubs. I have written down a list of some of these mistakes hoping people will avoid them in t…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsAI governance moves from observability to provable control
As artificial intelligence agents move from experimental tools into production systems, enterprise governance is being forced to answer a harder question. It is no longer enough to know what an agent did. Organizations i…
- The Verge AIagentsMeta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actual…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsFlock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
- The Verge AIsafetyHumans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were jus…
- LessWrongresearchFailure of the coding theorem for randomized stopping machines
Epistemic Status and Contributions. This post explains a technical separation result in algorithmic information theory which was derived during Mikhail Mironov's Summer 2026 PIBBSS fellowship . The result contributes to…
- Guardian AIsafetyYour AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down , Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of…
- Guardian AIpolicyAustralia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast There’s nothing like a threat o…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyTrump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyTrump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help m…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette-auth-github 1.0
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cook…
- LessWrongcommunityYou Should Go Vote for the MAGA-Rebranded Name for AI
I. The AI safety movement has cycled through a lot of different vocabulary in its history: Friendly AI, Oracle/Genie, FOOM. None have yet reached common parlance, so their careful implications have thus far had limited i…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafetyWhat to expect during Oracle’s ‘AI Cyberattacks Are Escalating: How to Secure Your Data Now’ event: Join theCUBE on Sept. 22
At a time when AI is introducing new risks to global systems, Oracle Corp. is shifting enterprise security toward the data layer. This approach, based on a three-pronged strategy to secure at source, secure at speed and…
- Guardian AIcommunityBlack Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast
Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT was released four y…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsAt AGNTCon Europe, ensuring AI agents don’t kill us all
At this past week’s AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 conference in Amsterdam, the buzz around agentic artificial intelligence was palpable – but nobody was particularly worried that AI was going to kill us all. The frontier…
- LessWrongsafetyAlignment & Succession: Toward a Future Painted by Human Wills
(originally published on No Set Gauge on 2026-09-13) Asher Brown Durand, Progress (The Advance of Civilization) So far I have argued: The ideology of succession —that humans, either entirely or at least in their role as…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsSalesforce after Dreamforce: How the CRM giant can grow beyond its own interface
Salesforce Inc.’s next growth opportunity just may come from customers spending less time in its interface, and having artificial intelligence agents do more of the work. Coming out of the customer relationship managemen…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyGoogle’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityCalifornia Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife
- LessWrongsafetyThe AI Risk Network
Most conversations about AI risks seem like people are talking past each other. There’s a lot of strawmanning. This is largely because the issue is complex, and in order to make it manageable, the concepts get oversimpli…
- The Verge AIsafetyGemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cyberse…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
- TechCrunch AIcommunityPetlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an ext…
- The DecodermodelsQwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It processes audio and video together and independently uses tools to edit vlogs, translate clips, or summarize movies. On audio-video benchmark…
- LessWrongsafetyCommentBench: Can Models Match Human Comments on AI Safety Posts?
TL;DR We measure how well model-generated comments match human comments on conceptual AI-safety posts, drafts and shortforms. We built a pipeline that goes from a corpus of conceptual documents with comments to a set of…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityPrices go up in 7 days — get your Disrupt ticket now
Current ticket pricing ends September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket.
- LessWrongpolicyThe AI race is already multipolar
TL;DR: Collaborating to reduce catastrophic risks seems very possible even for policymakers with very different goals. T he race for general superintelligence is often described as a bipolar race between two rival hegemo…
- The DecoderagentsUnity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials
Unity has released official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The article Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials appeared first on The D…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
- The DecodersafetyGPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark
Leading AI models usually attempt dangerous tasks rather than refuse them when controlling a robot, according to the RoboHarm benchmark. GPT-6 Astra stabbed a baby doll in 17 of 20 trials, while Claude Fable 5.1 put a ca…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsVals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
- The DecoderagentsGoogle Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts
Google and Deepmind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly recalculations. In tests, it matched or beat existing results, cutting iterations by a factor of up to…
- Guardian Technologycommunity‘Just cut the wires’: why UK conspiracy theorists are destroying traffic scanners
Sensors that monitor vehicle volume are said to be ‘electronic assault weapons’ by the ‘Blade Runners’ group At the top of an extendable ladder on a quiet street of Ilfracombe, in Devon, an older woman dressed smartly in…
- WIRED AIsafetyForget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityI used ChatGPT and Gemini to build my Oktoberfest bucket list — these are the 5 celebrations that made the cut
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The DecoderresearchAI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline
ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype, corporate pay tied to publication records, and above all, AI making it faster to crank out papers.…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyChina bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario
Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI developm…
- Guardian TechnologychipsDomestic datacentres: how computer power can help heat your home
Energy bills are scheduled to rise next month but there are innovative ways to heat your home and save money When Giles Gibson turns on the hot tap in his home, the water that comes out of it is not heated by gas but by…
- WIRED AIresearchMathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
- WIRED AIcommunityJoin the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4
For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityI replaced ChatGPT with Siri AI for a day — here's what surprised me
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- TechRadar AIcommunityICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from AI to Snap Specs
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- Engadget AIpolicyNow Trump says he's creating an AI Force
The president said he will soon announce an "AI czar" to run this newly made-up agency.
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityNotify Me is easily one of the best features iOS 27 has to offer — but it needs to do better
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- LessWrongsafetyLearnings from a week in the wet lab
I work on biosafety evals for LLMs, but have never set foot in a wet lab. This seems kind of silly, so this week I decided to change that. On the 8th floor of Frontier Tower is a community wet lab . You pay $190/month to…
- Engadget AIsafetyAnthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations
This move represents the first step in the CEO’s plan to slow down AI development.
- Guardian AIpolicyAI and fake citation used in Tasmanian murderer’s parole decision
Parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser deemed invalid after board cited non-existent case law Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A review of potential artificial intelligence us…