TL;DR – More of the public than ever are talking about AI consciousness and they won't wait for research to split into their pro- and anti- consciousness camps. The pro-consciousness camp could threaten the control paradigm by viewing monitoring and training as violations, while the anti-consciousness camp could over-invest in control paradigms and miss opportunities…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito – emphasis on work. OpenAI announced…
Læs hele historien hos theverge.com →Brian Hartzband, President of US Operations, GMEX Robotics, leads the company’s U.S. expansion, with a focus on building its commercial footprint, developing strategic partnerships, and bringing its physical AI and robotics platforms into real-world deployments. Prior to joining GMEX Robotics, Hartzband spent nearly four years at TEKsystems across technical recruiting and account management roles serving…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money…
Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →It’s tempting to define safety research as research that enables developers to deploy an AI system more safely without making the deployment much more expensive or much less useful.You can visualize this definition of safety research as pushing out the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier. At any given level of usefulness, there's greater safety available.Awkwardly, this definition counts…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money…
Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →OpenAI published a customer case study on October 2, 2026, describing how Chatham Financial, a capital markets advisory firm, uses OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 models across its advisory workflows, including a trade validation application the firm says reduced review time from approximately 30 minutes to under four. The case study lists Chatham as a small…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted…
Læs hele historien hos theverge.com →This is a beginner-friendly video. Second half might contain new content for people who already know about acausal trade.The beginning introduces decision theory and acausal interactions (CDT, EDT, ECL, MBAT).The middle explains why I think influencing how AIs reason about acausal interactions is time-sensitive.The last bit talks about how to do the influencing.DiscussLæs hele historien…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Anthropic on October 2, 2026 launched Claude Frontier Academy, a training initiative backed by a $100 million commitment that aims to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. Engineers from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and other organizations make up the first cohorts. Anthropic…
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