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“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones”
also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
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AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux
The contrast couldn’t be starker
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AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
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The impeccable logic of Sam Altman
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
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AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either.
Much was quietly revealed yesterday
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The Five Stages of AGI Grief
And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial General Intelligence means.
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Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.
Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that…
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AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later
What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
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Ernest Davis
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Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history?
In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico…
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25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI
With a review of last year’s predictions
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December 2024

Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted skeptic of generative AI, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI…
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Miles Brundage
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𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴…
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation…
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