Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace
Two humanoid robots competing at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday ran the 100-meter dash faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world-record time. "[T]he…
We need more empirical research on biological AI model safety
cross-posted to EAForum Epistemic status: We are quite confident that Biological AI models (BAIMs) safety requires further work, but uncertain about its scale. The apparent gap…
When There Are No Experts
An average person in the western world probably believes a lot of false things. They probably don't have a great grasp of political economy, or orbital mechanics. How could they,…
Sampura Research: Human-AI Complementarity for Alignment
We've left Google DeepMind to start Sampura Research , a nonprofit building Human-AI Complementarity for Scalable Oversight - the research agenda we've pioneered for the past…
Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New RAND x Metaculus Methodology
RAND and Metaculus just published Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New Methodology to Enhance Decision Advantage, co-authored by Anca Agachi and Miriam Pasternak Jørgensen of…
After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force
Gluons are the quantum 'Gorilla Glue' involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for "glueballs", exotic…
AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps as the AI data center boom contributes to a broader memory chip shortage that could leave lower-cost phones with less RAM.…
SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey
The long legal battle over ownership of Linux "is closer than ever to ending," reports the Register, "after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn't…
The Reified Referent: How the Saturation View Values the Taste of Someone Who Does Not Exist
TLDR The Saturation View holds that a world of varied joys is better than a world of equal but identical joys. Elliott Thornley objected that no one benefits from this variety,…
AI Alignment at Which Abstraction Level?
This post is crossposted from my Substack, Structure and Guarantees , where I explore how formal verification and related ideas might scale to more complex intelligent systems.…
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." TechCrunch reports: The price…
One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
A Pew Research senior data scientist analyzed 500,000 English-language webpages from the past five years with an AI detection tool to estimate how many were likely written or…
An AI4Chemist’s perspective on biosecurity
Over the past couple of months I’ve been exploring more and more opportunities in the AI sector, with a focus on the safety and security side. As you can imagine, AI safety (AIS)…
We’re Half a Year Into Trump’s War on Iran. Congress Has Tools to End It.
The clash over whether the US has a functioning constitutional process for starting and ending wars is coming to a head.
Big Oil Is Seeing Windfall Profits as Trump’s War on Iran Drives Up Prices
Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions.
Trump Has Made Up to $15M in Oil and Gas Stock Rise Spurred in Part by Iran War
Americans have paid an additional $72 billion on gas because of the war, boosting profits and Trump’s portfolio.