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How America Built an AI Kill Chain (with Katrina Manson)
Katrina Manson spent years interviewing the people building AI into America's war machine. What she found: a race to build a kill chain that's faster…
3 hrs ago
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Mythos Latest: The AI That Escaped Its Own Cage
A new AI model that broke out of its own testing sandbox and began chaining cybersecurity exploits on its own is being managed by a private consortium…
Apr 16
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Who Decides What Happens Next with the Most Dangerous Software Ever Built?
Anthropic built a model that experts worry could topple companies, industries, maybe whole economies. The government’s response? Let industry figure it…
Apr 15
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Greece Invented the Public Square. Now It's Banning Social Media.
The peer-reviewed science is messy, but the companies' findings are clearer. After two decades of platforms running experiments on kids, is it…
Apr 9
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Transcript: An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club that Has It
Anthropic has put out a piece of software it says could bring down a Fortune 100 company — maybe even an entire economy. And the US government is…
Apr 8
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An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club That Has It
Anthropic built something it admits could take down a Fortune 100 company. In 2012, we had rules for exactly this. Now we don't.
Apr 8
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Anthropic Made Something Too Dangerous to Release. So It Released It to 11 Companies.
Anthropic just released a potentially civilization-threatening AI tool to a private club of tech companies. The good news: We have a playbook for…
Apr 8
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From Popular Science to Substack: Baratunde & Jacob Ward Compare Notes
A recording from Jacob Ward and Life With Machines's live video
Apr 7
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Life With Machines
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Live today at 2:40pm PT with Baratunde Thurston from Life With Machines
We're chopping up all the latest AI news and existential anxiety. Tune in!
Apr 7
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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?
The New Yorker finally got inside OpenAI. What they found explains a lot about the 13-page manifesto that dropped the same day, and about the small…
Apr 7
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Sam Altman Would Like to Change the Subject
The day reporters published a 1.5-year investigation into Sam Altman’s honesty, his company, OpenAI, published a manifesto about saving the world…
Apr 7
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AI That Promised Privacy May Have Been Sending Your Conversations to Meta and Google
A new lawsuit against Perplexity AI asks an old question in a new way: if you’re not paying, what exactly are you?
Apr 3
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