platformer.news

Does intelligence need a hard cap?

The former say we may see a catastrophe as soon as next year; the latter has vacillated between creating a de facto licensing regime for frontier models and publicly encouraging US companies to go even faster. But the Trump administration remains frustratingly obtuse on the question of where all this is headed, even as more warning signs blink red.

ai-supremacy.com

AI Reality: The Race to (P)doom End-times

There are so many AI risks to democracy, capitalisms and society not being talked about when x-risk takes the center of the stage.

noahpinion.blog

Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion

A coordinated slowdown in AI progress would be bad for these companies' bottom line, because it would allow upstart competitors to catch up. So the fact that they're still calling for a slowdown, in defiance of their own financial interests, is a clear sign that their worry about human extinction is sincere.

noahpinion.blog

23 low-regret recommendations for AI policy

If 'pacing' becomes necessary, we think it should consist of two parts: first, specifying thresholds for when automated AI R&D is likely to pose severe risks; and second, if a threshold is exceeded, incentivizing AI companies to reallocate resources away from the most risky research, and towards activities that make further automation safer, or diffuse the benefits of existing AI faster. Without preparation now, however, our preferred pacing strategy will be impossible to implement.

platformer.news

Superintelligence is a dragon

Whether we can control AI systems is no longer a theoretical question, given recent revelations about OpenAI models scheming against the company for months on secret message boards. And yet to Zuckerberg, the danger isn't that we might lose control over these systems — it's that someone else might monopolize them.

stratechery.com

2026.30: The Copium Wars

Come to understand what happened, and stay to learn where OpenAI appears to have erred and why this mess is arguably reassuring with regard to alignment fears around LLMs.

dwarkesh.com

Blog prize for the big questions about AI

Compelling answers about the big questions about AI can inform the most important economic and foreign policy decisions that will ever be made, the deployment of (at least) hundreds of billions of philanthropic dollars, and the training and governance of superintelligences.

ai-supremacy.com

Summary of the AI Index Report 2026

this year's report emphasizes that while AI capability is accelerating, the governance and safety frameworks meant to manage it are struggling to keep pace.