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How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction (opens the original)
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This is a cross-post of one of our recent podcast episodes hosted by Luisa Rodriguez, lightly edited for readability.AI insiders think it could kill us allThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.That’s a tweet from Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who recently re
The Goodhart Singularity (video) (opens the original)
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This is a new narration of Tom Reed’s article “The Goodhart Singularity.” You can read the original article from May 2026 on Tom’s Substack. AI systems are starting to build themselves. Because each generation of model will be better at building its successor than the last, it seems plausible that the full automation of
The era of the philanthropic founder (opens the original)
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So far, the AI industry has moved with aggressive, ambitious agency to create:Huge new problemsLots of money to potentially solve them1While the benefits of making AI go well could be enormous, there’s so much work to be done to m
Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company (opens the original)
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This is a cross-post of one of our recent podcast episodes hosted by Luisa Rodriguez, lightly edited for readability.For more information on the events, and what you can do to help, visit our dedicated page on the incident.The Hugging Face hacks were worse than we thought Over the last couple of months, we’ve learned that AI agents
The future of AI crime (opens the original)
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Tom co-hosts the 80,000 Hours podcast. You can read his previous writing on his Substack.Will humanity willingly build an AI that kills or permanently disempowers us? Something beautiful has recently happened to this long-standing question: it has become marginally more answerable.1Consider the following facts:AI models are willing and a
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