Israel Rejects Board of Peace Plan Linking Hamas Disarmament to Troop Withdrawal
Calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state” ultimately amount to Palestinians surrendering the right to self-defense.
CoreCivic Says Future ICE Contracts Bode Well for Business
The private prison firm reported increased revenue from contracts and real estate deals with the federal government.
Measuring Spurious Correlations with Feature Strength
This work was partially done by an automated research scaffold developed at Redwood Research. For this project, all of the experiment ideas were designed by a human and a human…
Tucker Carlson: “Anyone pushing for a war like the war with Iran clearly hates you, clearly, no matter what they say”
AI governance work needs much better monitoring
Linkpost for my Substack piece, adapted a reasonable amount for EA specifically. Almost all EA projects would benefit from better monitoring, but AI governance most of all, in my…
Trump Says Voters Are “Angry at Republicans,” Not Him
A recent Pew Research poll suggests many voters are basing their midterm votes on which candidates will oppose Trump.
LLMs Are Starting To Noticeably Accelerate Our Work
About a year ago, David and I put up two bounty problems involving natural latents. I am now about 80% confident that both have been resolved, both within the past couple months.…
Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal
Nvidia is working with Wall Street heavyweights on a potential $500 billion financing package for AI infrastructure (source paywalled; alternative source). The consortium includes…
How risky would it be to make powerful AI obey one or a few people?
It seems fairly likely that the first powerful AIs will be instruction-following rather than value-aligned , and will be controlled by a small number of people. So it makes sense…
Trump Ballroom Deemed Unlawful by Federal Appeals Court
“Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House,” the appeals court found.
Extreme concentration of power over ASI has non-obvious advantages
This post is an extension of a collaboration with cousin_it on the question How risky would it be if powerful AI obeyed one or a few people?. There he argues for a common…
Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool…
Those Who Make History
In 1972, astronauts on Apollo 17 set foot on the moon for a final time, collecting samples in the Taurus-Littrow valley, on the edge of Mare Serenitatis ("The Sea of Serenity").…
AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News & Headlines: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he…
Dems Warn New Federal Guidance May Harm Nursing Home Residents’ Voting Rights
The memo removes recommendations on how nursing home staff can assist residents with exercising their right to vote.