Max Tegmark

Paul Christiano: There's a 50% chance of losing control to AI if we race to build it as fast as possible. It might happen within a year. Some AI CEO's & investors: Let's race to build it as fast as possible! (Paul is a brilliant AI researcher who invented RLHF and lead the science team at the US government's AI safety institute.)

For the first time ever, AI became a major election issue:

Zvi pushing back against the argument "If you're helping build something that may kill everyone, maybe keep working at Anthropic":

How good is AI at manipulating us when we're prepared? Should we build bots in such a way that they deserve legal rights? Should be try to build AI tools or beings? Meia did her Ph.D. in psychology and a postdoc on human-machine interactions, so these takes are from a psychology perspective:

I'm curious if AI hacking tools were used for this: verity.news/story/2026/repor…

Although this is indeed a spectacular result, that measly log-factor doesn't make much difference in practice: for n=1000, it replaces 2^1000 by 2^380, which is still way more than the number of atoms in our universe, meaning that a universe-sized computer may be unable to solve such a problem even if if we gave it billions of years:

I'm excited to share our new film Delisted, about how we end up in 1984 without AI going rogue. It’s the 3rd dystopian AI scenario that we need to avoid to enjoy AI's great upside: 1) Rogue AI 2) Obedient AI misused 3) Obedient AI causes 1984 4) Race-to-replace by obedient AI Synopsis: When AI-driven power concentration sparks protests, the government's response isn't force - it's erasure. Dissenters are Delisted: wiped from every financial, digital and legal system. Starring Katie Parker, Jamie Bamber, Alex Bhat, Rosalind Halstead, Charlie Hiscock, and Ruby Bridle. Written & directed by Michael Patrick Clarkson Featuring "Bleed Us Anew," an original song written and performed by Ruby Bridle A Space Digital production, in collaboration with FLI

I'm excited to share our new film Moloch, about how we all get disempowered without AI going rogue. It’s the 4th (and IMHO least discussed) dystopian AI scenario: 1) Rogue AI 2) Obedient AI misused 3) Obedient AI causes 1984 4) Race-to-replace by obedient AI Synopsis: As AI triggers worldwide job loss, an engineer who built the tech struggles with dark forces, her family & her CEO over pulling the plug. Starring Fiona Hampton, Parker Sawyers, David Buttle & Buddy Wignall-Ho. Written & directed by Tom Cozens. It's an Owl In Space production in collaboration with FLI. We worked really hard on this and hope you find it thought-provoking!

Now that AI control loss happened, let's talk about solutions: not arguing about whether to race slower or faster toward human replacement, but about racing in different more pro-human direction

Amidst all the buzz about AI problems, let's work hard on building solutions. Here's an amazing technical roadmap: arxiv.org/abs/2608.14611

I'm quite nerd-sniped by how clever out-of-the-box hacking techniques this rogue bot swarm invented, such as using link shorteners and screenshot services in creative unintended ways:

The "AI can cause harm" psyop that I'm part of runs deeper than you may think:

I really enjoyed my conversation with @BillOReilly and hearing his takes on AI: youtube.com/watch?v=87yoGSBQ…

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I'm delighted to share that @mustafasuleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, has signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration. If you too support it, please join him and over a million others by signing it here – the momentum is building! Let's build tools not beings & keep humans in charge. humanstatement.org

The Overton window is shifting remarkably fast right now, with @sama now also endorsing both this and a Trump-Xi Nobel Peace price for avoiding excessive risks on both sides of the Pacific:

Thanks Jakub @merettm for this candid take on the AI race! I have a concrete pitch to you. I agree with you on a) and c): a) "no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer” b) "I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established" c) "international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world” But b) won’t happen because of game theory: “show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome”. So here’s my pitch to you: 1) Put all voluntary commitments from OpenAI, Anthropic & GDM into Astra and have it draft model legislation for the lowest common denominator. 2) OpenAI, Anthropic & GDM pitch this in D.C. as executive orders and legislation that binds you and your competitors conditional on a Trump-Xi deal holding Chinese companies to the same standards. 3) Publicly state that any president pulling off such a successful deal deserves the Nobel Peace Price - I think we agree on this!