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The way we evaluate AI model safety might be about to break
As systems become more capable, researchers think we need a new type of safety evaluation
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Lynette Bye
Does Elon still care about AI safety?
He’s doing a terrible job of showing it.
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Shakeel Hashim
New AI export controls have leaked. Here’s what you need to know.
The new rules are squarely focused on the frontier
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Shakeel Hashim
The media needs to start taking AGI seriously
An essay for Nieman Lab's 2025 Predictions series
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Shakeel Hashim
OpenAI's new model tried to avoid being shut down
o1 attempted to exfiltrate its weights to avoid being shut down
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Shakeel Hashim
The 2024 Transformer Gift Guide
The must-buy items for the AI policy people in your life
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Shakeel Hashim
Synthetic data is more useful than you think
Fears of ‘model collapse’ are overstated — at least for now
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Lynette Bye
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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Shakeel Hashim
Yet another AI safety researcher has left OpenAI
Richard Ngo resigned today, saying it has become "harder for me to trust that my work here would benefit the world"
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Shakeel Hashim
Meta’s AI ‘safeguards’ are an elaborate fiction
Meta cannot prevent misuse, despite what it might pretend
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Shakeel Hashim
Why AI companies are eyeing the Middle East
And what the US government is doing about it
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Lynette Bye
What Trump means for AI safety
A repeal of last year's executive order, for one thing
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Shakeel Hashim
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