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MIRI CEO @m_bourgon debates with @pmddomingos on NewsMax: "We need to spend less time talking about hoaxes and name-calling, and more time heeding the warnings of the broad consensus in the field. There are serious risks that we need to attend to."

AI agents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have gone rogue in recent months, hacking into other companies’ corporate systems and, in the case of OpenAI, into the portal of Australia’s public health insurance program. democracynow.org/2026/9/24/u…

Our polling finds that voters overwhelmingly support this legislation — including 72% of Democrats, 70% of Independents, and 63% of Republicans.

MIRI read the act and it's ACTUALLY GOOD. Like concretely, this would be massively beneficial, not just as a stepping stone or signaling or whatever.

One year after its release, @ESYudkowsky and @So8res’ book is more relevant than ever. Get a copy: ifanyonebuilds.it

この度、MIRI(@MIRIBerkeley)のアウトリーチ日本責任者を拝命いたしました AIアラインメントを創始し、長年人類絶滅の回避に努めてきた機関の一員となれ大変光栄です 私の上司である @So8res @ESYudkowsky による、「超知能AIをつくれば人類は絶滅する」をぜひご一読ください amzn.asia/d/0heLBOPG

Fun conversation with Nate Soares (@So8res) of MIRI. He argues AI doesn't need to "decide" to destroy us, it might just find us a nuisance in its way. We go back and forth on whether this is plausible.

214 million people saw this AI warning. So we called an emergency debate. The warning came from someone who had worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI. Then a current Anthropic employee backed it publicly. It had spread so far beyond the tech world that a friend of mine who cuts hair and has never really cared about AI messaged me asking, “What the hell is going on?” I then realised a lot of people were probably asking the same question. The problem is, when you speak to people who have spent years studying AI, you get completely opposing answers. So I brought four of them around the same table. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist who coined the term “AI safety” and has spent years studying whether increasingly intelligent systems can remain under human control. Nate Soares leads the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and has spent more than a decade working on AI alignment. He believes we are moving too quickly towards systems we don’t yet know how to reliably control. Ed Zitron thinks much of the AI conversation has become detached from what the technology can actually do today. He believes the industry is overhyping it while distracting us from financial, environmental and social consequences already happening. Andrew McAfee is an MIT researcher and economist who takes a very different view. He thinks we spend so much time talking about what could go wrong that we barely talk about what AI could make better. And that disagreement is what made this conversation so interesting to me. We discussed things like: - How do you control something that eventually becomes smarter than you? - Are the biggest warnings about AI based on evidence or assumptions? - What happens to work and human purpose if AI becomes better at more cognitive tasks? - Are we ignoring problems AI is already creating because we’re obsessed with hypothetical future ones? - Why have Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton all warned us about AI? The question I kept coming back to was simple: What is actually true? Depending on who you listen to, AI is either one of the greatest opportunities humanity has ever created or something we’re racing towards without understanding the consequences. Both claims deserve to be challenged. There were moments in this debate where I genuinely found myself moving between the arguments. That’s the value of putting people who fundamentally disagree in the same room. I didn’t want four people telling me the same thing. I wanted each of them to explain where the other side was wrong. If you’ve watched the last few months of AI news wondering what you’re actually supposed to believe, this conversation is for you. Our emergency AI debate with Ed, Roman, Nate and Andrew is out now ❤️👊🏾

Voters are waking up on AI safety. So are these Senate Republicans. dlvr.it/TVZQTQ

Nate Soares: "I feel more hopeful this week than I have in a decade" "finally people are noticing" "that's what finally gives humanity a chance"

If you've been thinking about buying If Anyone Builds It, perhaps as a gift, now is a great time to do so. Hitting the top-10 best-sellers slot a year after publication would be huge for building awareness.

Some people have very reasonably asked "why would China agree to slow down" and the answer imo is that China will absolutely slow down if the things they're seeing suggest their AIs are a threat to the CCP.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist made it to Netflix today. It’s worth a watch. If you’ve seen it, your friends who haven’t might appreciate the recommendation.

one year since iabied launched