Anthropic Rejects Pentagon: AI Safety vs State Power
At 5:01 p.m. on a Friday in February, Anthropic rejects Pentagon goes from Twitter discourse to live-fire test of who…
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Anthropic Pentagon Dispute: A Deliberate Stress Test
At 5:01 p.m. on a Friday, the Anthropic Pentagon dispute came down to a single sentence: the Department of Defense…
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AI Nuclear Strike Simulations: Models Keep Choosing Nukes
In one widely cited experiment, a reinforcement‑learning agent running a war game “discovered” the nuclear option and started using it…
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What the AI-Generated Faces Study Really Shows About Human Overconfidence
AI-generated faces are now so realistic that even people with exceptional face-recognition skills struggle to tell them apart from real…
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What Is the Famous Photo of a Single Atom and How Was It Taken?
A photograph of a single atom is really a long-exposure image of light emitted by that atom while it is…
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Why the Milky Way Smells Like Raspberries and Rum
Space does not literally taste or smell like raspberries and rum to human noses, but astronomers have found a molecule…
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What Is Gardening in Cryptography and How Does It Work?
In cryptography, gardening is the practice of deliberately causing an opponent to send messages that contain a specific, known piece…
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Silicon Valley Developers and the Pressure to Ship Harm
A number that should make you pause: 74% of Silicon Valley developers in the preprint A New Digital Divide? Coder…
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Bots Surpassed Humans in 2024: The 51% Traffic Trap
A weird thing about the claim that bots surpassed humans is that most people hear it as a story about…
