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The Goodhart Singularity (video)
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 bett...
The era of the philanthropic founder
So far, the AI industry has moved with aggressive, ambitious agency to create:
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Huge new problems
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Lots of money to potentially solve them1
While the benefits of making AI go well could be enormous, there’s so much work to be...
Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
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.
Th...
The future of AI crime
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...
10 big projects for reducing bio x-risk
Chris Bakerlee works on the Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness team at Coefficient Giving. This essay originally appeared in Defenses in Depth.
Engineered pathogens pose a grave threat to society, plausibly constituting an existent...
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