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Archives for November 2023


A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.

Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.

A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.

The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.

The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate

Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis.

Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.

How a renowned AI scientist became a voice for caution.

It might just be the most important job in the world.

Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment.


Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary.


The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.

ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.


Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?


The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.