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The Machine That Learned to Say No

A recent Anthropic blog post caught my attention and it ended up persuading me some of my past stances on AI doom were probably naive. It’s called “Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026.”

The blog post described some experiments Anthropic ra...

5 days ago
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Your Social Credit Score

On May 20, 2026, a scientist at Meta received an email telling her that her role had been eliminated. She was on approved pregnancy leave at the time. Her water broke the following day. She gave birth the day after that.

Two other people w...

10 days ago
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That's the Point

On Friday, June 12, at 5:21 in the evening, the Commerce Department sent a letter to Anthropic, makers of the chatbot Claude. The letter ordered the company to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models for every foreign national, in...

a month ago
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The Machine That Can't Say No

There’s a particular genre of horror stories online: AI doom narratives. Plenty of serious people treat them as prophecy. To them, it’s not fiction.

The stories are usually some variation of this: a superintelligent AI system wakes up. The...

2 months ago
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The Chatbot Checkpoint

On May 4, 2026, the New York Times reported that the White House was considering an executive order to create a government working group that would vet AI models before public release. Bloomberg confirmed that the White House had already br...

3 months ago
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