Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
The singularity will be seen in hindsight as an interregnum
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Is this the beginning of a new world?
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
What eras bookend our interregnum?
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
How religious are beliefs in the singularity?
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Where are your agents right now?
Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
When will markets price the singularity?
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?
Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
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Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
What laws does superintelligence demand?
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement
Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
How will timeless minds value time?
ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum
Import AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance's CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI
If Ukraine is the first major drone war, when will there be the first major AI war?
Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?
Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?
Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
How can you quantify creativity?
Import AI 442: Winners and losers in the AI economy; math proof automation; and industrialization of cyber espionage
Is superintelligence a phase change or a gradual shift?
Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?
Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain
Import AI 440: Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation
How many of your are LLMs?
Import AI 439: AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations
How might a hypothetical superintelligence represent a soul to itself?
Import AI 438: Silent sirens, flashing for us all
You are your LLM history
Import AI 437: Co-improving AI; RL dreams; AI labels might be annoying
Do you believe the singularity is nigh?
Import AI 436: Another 2GW datacenter; why regulation is scary; how to fight a superintelligence
Is AI balkanization measurable?
Import AI 435: 100k training runs; AI systems absorb human power; intelligence per watt
At what point will AI change your daily life?