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I don't agree with the strong emotional reaction against the anti-data-center movements that I've seen this week. As I see it, algorithmic progress means that whatever you would be able to do with more and bigger data centers in 2 years, you will be...

In the future, international cooperation such as an AI version of the NPT may become necessary. South Korea must position itself as a nation that objectively evaluates and verifies AI technology.

AI agents can write migrations, but production changes need guardrails. This live demonstration walks through an agent-assisted PostgreSQL workflow using Tiger Cloud and the Tiger CLI: provisioning an isolated development service, generating versione...

These models lack bodily experience, understanding the world largely through statistical associations. To advance embodiment in artificial intelligence and achieve genuine world comprehension, we posit that models must move beyond token associations ...

IMDA and CSA are therefore studying how to strengthen the reporting of serious AI-related incidents, including whether additional reporting or information-sharing arrangements are needed. We will draw on international approaches and build on existing...

Transparency labels should be legally required for synthetic (AI) content in electoral communications such as ads.

Universal Basic Capital (UBC) distributes ownership stakes in productive assets — such as equity in companies, funds, or infrastructure — directly to citizens, rather than relying solely on wages or government transfers to spread economic gains. [......

As I see it, solving alignment for LLMs isn’t just impossible, it’s incoherent: we can’t even articulate what it would look like to succeed.

If Anthropic was just one voice among many, this would not matter. But given its market-leading position and the risk that the industry develops as an oligopoly, society as a whole may wish to have some say over what is good for it. There are ways to...

AI is creating opportunities in model development, chip design, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, governance and enterprise implementation. The question is whether these roles will grow fast enough to offset pressure on routine work, and whether di...

To get from today’s AI to human extinction requires a long chain of assumptions. [...] Luckily, none of the steps on this list have come to pass yet. [...] However, something being difficult to disprove does not make it likely. [...] Possibility is b...

We can put these companies on notice that they’re going to be evaluated by folks that understand the process, that understand the technology, and will be transparent and hold them accountable so that they create safe products, and they don’t send out...

Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.

Alternatively, a second idea suggested by Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal, Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman and Daron Acemoglu (with co-authors Andrea Manera and Pascual Restrepo) is to rectify the current imbalance of taxation on labor and capita...

Independent third-party AI auditors will act like financial accounting firms: investigating and verifying safety protocols and legal compliance. They’re a critical part of the safeguards needed around powerful frontier AI models.