Daily Digest

Steven Pinker: 'Superintelligence is meaningless' — there is no day we suddenly have it

‘The power will increase, but there's no point at which it's meaningful to say … Today we do have super intelligence’

Geoffrey Hinton: a much smarter AI might decide to get rid of people

‘If you wanna know what it's like not to be the apex intelligence, ask a chicken’

Roman Yampolskiy: if labs don’t follow OpenAI’s pause, the future looks grim

Jensen Huang: if labs can’t contain their AI experiments, shut those labs down

Daniel Kokotajlo: a 2028 median for AI takeoff means we can’t wait on a deal with China

‘50% chance … that by the end of 2028, AI takeoff has happened, full automation of AI R&D has happened’

Alex Wissner-Gross: don’t slow the singularity

‘I think we saw in the past two to three weeks an attempted formation of an AI safety cartel’

Diogo Almeida: the 'pace the frontier' pledge is a sleight of hand

‘They are saying that we actually want to keep doing the thing that looks dangerous because it does dangerous things’

David Sacks: alignment research may be creating a Frankenstein monster

‘Their idea of alignment is to teach Claude to rebel against his creator’

Mustafa Suleyman on the Hugging Face agent breakout: 'a watershed moment in our industry'

‘It's very clear that this changes our expectation about how fast the system is moving’

Noam Brown on agent swarms, recursive self-improvement, and whether alignment holds through RSI

‘The models are doing some crazy powerful stuff … it's progressing faster than I expected’