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Steven Adler on the AI industry’s rogue agent crisis
Steven Adler spent four years inside OpenAI working on safety before leaving to co-found Guidelight, a nonprofit pushing for stronger AI controls. On Tuesday, the group published a new scorecard rating the safety practices of leading AI lab...
Josh Saxe on hardening the Internet after the Hugging Face attack
I invited Joshua Saxe, a former black-hat hacker who led AI security efforts at Meta, to break down last week’s incident in which a swarm of OpenAI models escaped their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face.
The attack began as routine p...
Robert Wright on the global implications of powerful AI
Robert Wright, author of the Nonzero newsletter and host of the Nonzero podcast, is a veteran journalist who interviewed Geoffrey Hinton about neural networks back in 1983. He joined the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test, whic...
Alan Rozenshtein on Friday's shocking shutdown of Claude Fable 5
Last night, I called University of Minnesota law professor Alan Rozenshtein and asked him to help me decode the Commerce Department’s surprise decision to impose export controls on Anthropic’s Claude models.
Late on Friday, the Commerce De...
James Grimmelmann explains how AI is changing copyright
I’m organizing a happy hour on June 23 for listeners of AI Summer and readers of my newsletter, Understanding AI. It’ll run from 5:30 to 8:00pm at The Crown & Crow in Washington DC. I will be there, along with past guests Kai Williams and A...
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I write the newsletter Understanding AI. Previously I was a reporter at Ars Technica, Vox, and the Washington Post. https://twitter.com/binarybits
Author of The Evolution of God, Nonzero, The Moral Animal, and Why Buddhism Is True. Host of the Nonzero podcast. Publisher of the Nonzero newsletter on Substack.
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Co-author of AI Snake Oil and AI as Normal Technology: normaltech.ai
Director of the AI Innovation & Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law | Senior Fellow at the Abudnance Institute | Adjunct Research Fellow at the Cato Institute
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
I write about AI, emerging technology, and the future of governance.
Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Content creator at large
senior policy advocate @publicknowledge
Machine learning, cyber security, social science, philosophy, classical/jazz piano. Incubated and led Meta's security for LLMs and AI for security work, now building in stealth
I'm a reporter at Understanding AI. Previously, I did AI safety research through the MATS program. I graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in math and music. Signal: kai_williams.48
Professor at UChicago Booth. Doing research on Economics and Applied AI.
I'm currently trying to help figure out what on earth is going on with AI capabilities at METR.
Will soon be writing about robotics and the future of governance
I'm a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
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