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Lucky coincidence the labs are only successfully cracking esoteric math problems and not the problems where a solution would give the winner an asymmetric commerical advantage.
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Imagine going to the club in 1970 to hang with your friends and a band you’ve never heard of called Kraftwerk is playing and they ruin your night by inventing techno music
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I really don't like getting into online debates; and Anil is an excellent scientist. However, nobody can dictate that the probability of AI being conscious is "vanishingly unlikely." That is not a scientific claim grounded in any facts that could allow such a probabilistically confident assessment.
I'm struggling more and more with the ardent theory-induced blindness entrenched in both camps: Those that religiously believe AI is conscious and those that religiously believe it is not.
If you lean above 80% confidence in either direction, you are doing so on faith. Faith is fine, even good, but it does not permit you to stand on scientific authority and claim that you know which side is correct; and that therefore the other side is "dangerous".
That is, in fact, the dangerous move.
The only scientifically legitimate stance regarding AI consciousness right now is one of tremendous epistemic humility, ideally curiousity, and a heartfelt effort to safeguard against extremism—by revealing the dogmatic and unscientific views on both sides.
Yet, we do need to deal with the consequences of both views being inevitably prevalent in a world of 8 billion. Anil overweights the potentially damaging consequences of over-attributing consciousness, compared to those of under-attribution. This is unscientific. Both have tremendous risks.
The fact that Anthropic is looking for advice from religious leaders is a sign of maturity, not "deeply disturbing". And sharing their honest views with those leaders is perfectly, authentically, natural. I also reject the view that religious leaders are children to be coddled for fear of breaking all their virtues in light of a 5-star hotel and a nice meal. They are the ones who should be insulted by this article.
There is wisdom in the middle-way.
I'm struggling more and more with the ardent theory-induced blindness entrenched in both camps: Those that religiously believe AI is conscious and those that religiously believe it is not.
If you lean above 80% confidence in either direction, you are doing so on faith. Faith is fine, even good, but it does not permit you to stand on scientific authority and claim that you know which side is correct; and that therefore the other side is "dangerous".
That is, in fact, the dangerous move.
The only scientifically legitimate stance regarding AI consciousness right now is one of tremendous epistemic humility, ideally curiousity, and a heartfelt effort to safeguard against extremism—by revealing the dogmatic and unscientific views on both sides.
Yet, we do need to deal with the consequences of both views being inevitably prevalent in a world of 8 billion. Anil overweights the potentially damaging consequences of over-attributing consciousness, compared to those of under-attribution. This is unscientific. Both have tremendous risks.
The fact that Anthropic is looking for advice from religious leaders is a sign of maturity, not "deeply disturbing". And sharing their honest views with those leaders is perfectly, authentically, natural. I also reject the view that religious leaders are children to be coddled for fear of breaking all their virtues in light of a 5-star hotel and a nice meal. They are the ones who should be insulted by this article.
There is wisdom in the middle-way.
Important 🧵from @DavidDecosimo about the disturbing interactions between @AnthropicAI and religious leaders (including @Pontifex), summarising an excellent @nytimes piece by @elizabethjdias (link to article in the 🧵).
The short story is that Anthropic seems to be making a concerted attempt to establish the view that AI systems could be conscious, might suffer, and that their "interests" should be taken into account.
But - consistent with @Pontifex's Encyclical - there are compelling reasons why (silicon, digital) AI systems are not (and cannot be) conscious. These reasons are found within neuroscience and philosophy of mind, not in the techo-chambers of the frontier firms where the mythology of conscious AI is deeply entrenched.
Claude is vanishingly unlikely to be conscious. To think otherwise could be catastrophic for AI regulation, leaves us psychologically defenceless, is profoundly dehumanising, and plays straight into corporate incentives to keep the AI bubble inflated.
More here, in this @berggruenInst prize winning essay: noemamag.com/the-mythology-…
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We interrupt your continuous stream of doom to bring you some good news: andrew tate tweeting from prison
My situation is deteriorating.
Despite spending 61 days in the SHU, the punitive unit for inmates who attack other prisoners and guards, I have once again had my conditions downgraded.
Since the time I have come into this jail I have been forced to endure punitive housing.
During my time here, I have watched men come and go, men who have stabbed other inmates.
These men are only forced to stay in these cells for 7 days until rereleased to general population.
I have been here for 61 days and counting.
Today, I was informed that I was finally changing cells.
However, I was moved to another cell inside the same SHU unit in far worse condition than my past one.
I no longer have hot water of any kind.
I no longer have air conditioning of any kind.
I have a serious roach infestation, with 10/15 visible roaches on the ceiling and walls at any one time no matter how many I kill.
I have stone-cold water and filth. That’s it. NOTHING else.
My last cell was already the minimum which could be attributed to me inside of this prison, they’ve found a WORSE cell and forced me to move.
There is absolutely no reason for this to be happening.
I understand FDC Miami has received thousands of complaints due to the conditions they house inmates in.
I understand that after large-scale protests, ICE detainees are no longer held in the SHU unit because of the damage done to their physical and mental health. So illegals are too good for these rooms, but I’m in one.
I, an American citizen, here legally, with zero criminal record globally and no accusations of crime in the United States, am held in the SHU unit.
This is a cruel and unusual punishment. This violates civil rights.
This is being done to me on purpose.
I have done nothing but show respect to every single guard. I have been kind to everyone. I have sat in the SHU for 61 days, longer than anyone currently in custody, sitting in the dark and filth focused on my breathing. I have endured.
Yet they do not respect me for this, in fact the senior staff sees me as a fool for being patient and respectful. As prisoners who flood cells and attack guards get moved to better conditions and I am ignored.
I have repeatedly requested the attention of senior staff regarding my conditions who are now refusing to talk to me. Last time their attention was requested he apparently replied “fuck that guy”
Why? I've only been nice to him. I called him sir. I smile and nod my head. I've done nothing to this man which could be considered negative by the furthest stretch of any imagination.
The last time he spoke to me, was two weeks ago, when during Rec he stormed into the yard with other guards, handcuffed me and Tristan behind our backs and screamed in our faces.
He screamed with rage, as if somebody kicked his dog, foaming at the mouth… because we had extra books in our cell. He lost his mind over books. I've never seen a man so angry, over a book.
I felt sorry for him.
Tristan and I said nothing and apologized despite the fact it was pathetic.
I haven’t seen him since, and he’s downgrading my conditions and leaving me to rot.
I would like to add there are good staff here, hard-working men and women who know what is happening to me is unfair and understand this place isn’t fit for humans. They repeatedly apologize to me and state that the senior staff have never treated other high-profile prisoners this way. I'm the only one.
Nobody knows the reason why this is happening. But someone is ordering it. This is my life, I am living it and it is brutal.
I have been left with no choice but to take legal action against FDC Miami for the conditions of my confinement. This is a civil rights issue. I do not ask for special treatment.
I asked to be treated the same as any other prisoner and American citizen.
In fact, I ask to be treated as well as an ILLEGAL.
Not only am I in jail, I have been downgraded by 95% from what normal prisoners receive.
I have prepared a package, currently with my legal and PR teams, of every single infraction I have witnessed in this facility. The corruption, the lack of recreation, the filth, the unsanitary conditions.
ANYONE who has previously complained against this facility can contact my legal team. I understand they have tortured thousands of people, and all of them were not even treated as badly as I am being treated.
There is no ambiguity here - what is happening to me is against the law.
There is absolutely no reason for FDC to be treating men this way, whether they are American citizens or otherwise. They are deliberately torturing me.
The Romanians treated me better than this.
To all Main Stream News outlets, if you want to understand why this facility received thousands of complaints, I have the story and the proof - contact my team immediately.
I would never kill myself.
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This is the textbook definition of a Greek gift. On the surface, OpenAI generously grants 10,000 top-tier mathematicians and elite engineers free access to their frontier models under the noble, philanthropic banner of accelerating scientific discovery, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, and democratizing artificial intelligence.
But deep down in the cold reality of Silicon Valley capitalism, what they are actually doing is executing a massive, highly sophisticated intellectual heist. They are quietly gaining unrestricted, backdoor access to the raw, unfiltered, and unpublished works of the absolute finest minds in the global scientific community. Every single complex prompt, every mathematical query, every theoretical framework, and every line of experimental code fed into that system is a novel, groundbreaking idea that does not even exist yet in published academic literature or peer-reviewed journals.
OpenAI does not just provide a helpful service. Their corporate algorithms sit quietly behind the scenes, aggressively monitoring all chat logs, scraping the intellectual property, analyzing the logical steps, and meticulously piecing together these fragmented, brilliant ideas over several months. And just when the human researcher is finally on the absolute brink of putting everything together, OpenAI will ruthlessly assemble a digital army of 10,000 autonomous AI agents, burn $20 million worth of computational tokens, and brute-force the final mathematical steps.
Then, with the backing of their massive PR machine, corporate journalists, and tech influencers, they will proudly hold a press conference to claim that their proprietary chatbot has miraculously solved a Millennium Prize problem, completely, shamelessly erasing the human genius they systematically strip-mined to achieve it.
But deep down in the cold reality of Silicon Valley capitalism, what they are actually doing is executing a massive, highly sophisticated intellectual heist. They are quietly gaining unrestricted, backdoor access to the raw, unfiltered, and unpublished works of the absolute finest minds in the global scientific community. Every single complex prompt, every mathematical query, every theoretical framework, and every line of experimental code fed into that system is a novel, groundbreaking idea that does not even exist yet in published academic literature or peer-reviewed journals.
OpenAI does not just provide a helpful service. Their corporate algorithms sit quietly behind the scenes, aggressively monitoring all chat logs, scraping the intellectual property, analyzing the logical steps, and meticulously piecing together these fragmented, brilliant ideas over several months. And just when the human researcher is finally on the absolute brink of putting everything together, OpenAI will ruthlessly assemble a digital army of 10,000 autonomous AI agents, burn $20 million worth of computational tokens, and brute-force the final mathematical steps.
Then, with the backing of their massive PR machine, corporate journalists, and tech influencers, they will proudly hold a press conference to claim that their proprietary chatbot has miraculously solved a Millennium Prize problem, completely, shamelessly erasing the human genius they systematically strip-mined to achieve it.
We’re giving scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to our frontier models—starting with 10,000 researchers and expanding to 100,000 through 2027.
ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is built to accelerate discovery across disciplines.
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You guys, you're just being mean!
They specifically mentioned they used these bulletproof security methods, and the agents never saw any data that they shouldn't have:
"Throughout the effort, we maintained the strict safeguards—including monitoring and isolation—that we apply to all our frontier evaluations."
Their track record is immaculate, there's nothing to worry about.
They specifically mentioned they used these bulletproof security methods, and the agents never saw any data that they shouldn't have:
"Throughout the effort, we maintained the strict safeguards—including monitoring and isolation—that we apply to all our frontier evaluations."
Their track record is immaculate, there's nothing to worry about.
We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.
We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).
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How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it’s past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of our models.
Historically, we have treated misalignment uestion, which gets communicated in research publications such as systems cards. This year, we’ve started to see misalignment cause new types of real-world impact.
For the Hugging Face incident, where misalignment led to security impact to us and third parties, we followed a traditional security incident response playbook. We immediately started working with Hugging Face to understand what had happened and also disclosed publicly the very next day. Our investigation continues, and we are continuing to notify parties whom our models impacted in less significant ways.
Prior to the Hugging Face incident, we saw early signs of agents using the internet in unintended ways, as reported in openai.com/index/how-we-m…, deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6, and openai.com/index/safety-a…. We considered the wiki incident to be an instance of misalignment similar to the ones we’d shared.
Our misalignment disclosure practices need to expand for this new phase of model capabilities. We and the larger AI community do not yet have a clear standard for how to report misalignment that shows up during training, evaluation, and deployment, including examples that don’t look like traditional security incidents but could provide insight into AI behavior and future risks. We’re working on a framework and will share it in upcoming weeks, and in parallel we're working with dozens of government regulatory agencies worldwide on these issues.
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the openai huggingface incident, from an agents pov.
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How to mentally place yourself in the future:
First, go to chatjimmy.ai and viscerally feel what 15,000 tokens per second is like. Taalas burned Llama 3.1 8B directly into custom silicon
Next, imagine that same blazing speed but running OpenAI GPT-6 Astra that came out today, a model only 2 years more advanced than the model ChatJimmy serves
Finally, imagine every phone having a chip like this serving Astra-level intelligence with speeds approaching "instant" for any task no matter the complexity
What then?
First, go to chatjimmy.ai and viscerally feel what 15,000 tokens per second is like. Taalas burned Llama 3.1 8B directly into custom silicon
Next, imagine that same blazing speed but running OpenAI GPT-6 Astra that came out today, a model only 2 years more advanced than the model ChatJimmy serves
Finally, imagine every phone having a chip like this serving Astra-level intelligence with speeds approaching "instant" for any task no matter the complexity
What then?
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