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Is the AI Doomsday Narrative the Product of a Big Tech Conspiracy?
A close reading of what tech titans actually say on the matter
Dec 4
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Garrison Lovely
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A Compilation of Tech Executives' Statements on AI Existential Risk
Documenting industry leaders’ thoughts on whether AI might kill everyone
Dec 4
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Garrison Lovely
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November 2024
China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race (Now with a Reply from Gwern)
An influential congressional commission is calling for a militarized race to build superintelligent AI based on threadbare evidence
Nov 19
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Garrison Lovely
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New OpenAI emails reveal a long history of mistrust
Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever had questions about Sam Altman's intentions as early as 2017
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Nov 15
Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall?
And is there a “basically clear” path to AGI?
Nov 13
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Garrison Lovely
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Why I Swapped My Vote and Why You Should Too
Probably the most impactful thing you can do about the presidential election right now
Nov 4
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Garrison Lovely
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October 2024
“End of an Era”: OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Chief Resigns and Team is Disbanded
Miles Brundage was one of the last of the AI safety old guard at OpenAI. He thinks the world is not ready for powerful AI.
Oct 23
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Garrison Lovely
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“End of an Era”: OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Chief Resigns and Team is Disbanded
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All My Coverage of California AI Safety Bill SB 1047 (in One Place)
Governor Gavin Newsom killed the bill, but the fight over it sketches a blueprint for the AI safety battles to come
Oct 11
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Garrison Lovely
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All My Coverage of California AI Safety Bill SB 1047 (in One Place)
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September 2024
Lies and deception: Andreessen Horowitz’s SB 1047 campaign is as misleading as it gets
The venture capital giant has repeatedly peddled untruths in an effort to kill the AI regulation bill
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Sep 18
August 2024
The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations
Expanding on my latest reporting plus the prospect of getting AI safety laws with teeth
Aug 16
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Garrison Lovely
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May 2024
35 - Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Labs are “Playing Dice with Humanity’s Future”
The 2nd most cited living scientist on existential risk from AI
May 9
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Garrison Lovely
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March 2024
Claude Doesn’t Want to Die
Anthropic’s brand-new model tells me what it really thinks (or what it thinks a language model thinks)
Mar 5
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Garrison Lovely
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