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AI is suddenly shockingly persuasive
I remember when Claude Opus 4.6 was released.
It was the first time I felt like I was “meeting” a model. The jump in capabilities was palpable. It could write well, think well, and hallucinated far less than any other LLM before it. It ha...
A majority of Americans now think AI could destroy humanity
Last week the AI safety debate burst out into the open.
For better or worse, some of the darker narratives are successfully finding purchase. Politico just released a poll showing that a majority of Americans now think there’s a real risk...
Why Would AI Want to Kill Us? With Nate Soares
It has been a huge week for AI safety.
For those of us deeply concerned about this historically niche cause, it has felt a bit like one’s cult emo band has suddenly rocketed to the top of the charts. People suddenly care, a lot. And for go...
You are wrong about how wrong the other side is
Today I’m publishing the YouTube version of my interview with Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. Link below.
One of the most important threads in the conversation is that we hold a lot of incorrect beliefs that make things seem wor...
Steven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality
Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist at Harvard, a 2x Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of notable works like The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now.
Today we discuss his researc...
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