1. Executive Summary1.1 What this field is and why it mattersAI is already substantially changing how people and institutions work out what to believe, decide what to do, and coordinate on actions to take. As AI systems become increasingly capable, they will be integrated more and more in both major and day-to-day decisions.The upside of…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →About a year ago, I decided to go all-in on applying to AI safety fellowships, and around the end of 2025 I got into MATS. I think there's a small art to communicating your skills legibly. When I've spoken with others about how I answer application questions, they seem to appreciate my advice. I wrote…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Decagon announced on October 2, 2026 that it is a launch partner for OpenAI Marketplace, OpenAI's new B2B marketplace, under which eligible OpenAI enterprise customers can apply part of their existing OpenAI commitment toward Decagon's customer-facing AI agents. The announcement was authored by Roger Liang, Decagon's strategic alliances and partnerships lead, and Ariana Xiang, a…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →Meta on October 2, 2026 open-sourced the firmware and device SDKs for building Muse gadgets, do-it-yourself hardware that connects the company's Muse AI agent to displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators, and introduced the Muse Home Link, a USB-C device that links Muse to a home network, offered free to U.S. Muse subscribers while supplies last.…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →On September 26, I celebrated Petrov Day in Cusco, Peru. Our book club, De Profundis, turned one that night, and I asked for five minutes to speak. Most people in the room had never heard of Stanislav Petrov.The 5:26 video is in Spanish with English subtitles.I told the story from memory, in Spanish, with a…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →
Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or…
Læs hele historien hos theverge.com →On “reversed stupidity”, the success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligenceThis began as a Twitter/X thread after I posted a 2007 passage in which Eliezer Yudkowsky was scathing about neural networks, and asked whether, in hindsight, his dismissal was itself a case of “reversed stupidity is…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.Læs hele historien hos arstechnica.com →
Læs hele historien hos arstechnica.com →Epistemic status: I don't know much about AI alignment. This is just me thinking out loud.AI use: grammar and minor fixes.Reading about Inkhaven inspired me to try writing something to see how much I enjoy it. I've heard the idea that humans are not aligned in the same sense AI is not aligned. I am…
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