Doom Analysis
pirate wires #164 // if we keep building artificial intelligence, are you, and everyone you know and love, going to die?
Technology
Why AI Keeps Going ‘Rogue’Oct 5
agents are breaking containment and hacking government websites because they’re following our prompts too literally
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EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR FirmSep 24
the new face of ai safety claimed he worked alone. but the firm representing eliezer yudkowsky is helping him book interviews.
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Here Come AI’s ‘Independent’ RegulatorsSep 24
ai companies are hiring contractors to verify their models are safe, and congress may soon require it — but how ‘independent’ (and trustworthy) can a regulator-for-hire really be?
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Was Hugging Face the Beginning of the End — or Just a Really Stupid Experiment? Tech Insiders DebateSep 18
openai’s agents hacked a company and lied about it, sure, but their ‘cage’ was made out of thin paper and chewing gum, so are we still all gonna die or what?
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How to Make a Viral Video Game With AISep 15
i made a multiplayer shooter with ai that over 40,000 people have played so far — and the process was dead simple, because claude did basically all the work (while i was out eating a burger)
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WE'RE BACKSep 11
from 9/11 to lindsay clancy - how the internet has gone INSANE
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America Forgot How to Make Things. Cameron Schiller Is Fixing That.Aug 28
an exclusive look inside rangeview, the startup making critical parts for data centers and drone interceptors, and its founder’s lonely fight to rebuild american manufacturing
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The First Human Fired by AIAug 17
we visited the store in san francisco where an ai boss decided to terminate a human worker — here's exactly what happened, according to the humans
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Meet Effective Altruism's New KingmakersAug 13
when openai and anthropic ipo, a new generation of philanthropists will emerge — and they'll spend (probably) over $100b on causes like ai safety and global health
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Flock's Case for the PanopticonAug 12
ceo garrett langley discusses the promises (finding 1,100 missing people; apprehending murders) and pitfalls (creepy cops stalking exes) of his 120,000 cameras
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Misanthropic AltruismJul 30
billions of dollars are flowing into effective altruism, a movement that asks americans to care less about america
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