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“Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident” by Zvi

October 13, 2026 · 33 min

It has been roughly a year since my last dedicated post on this question. Its first sentence has not changed: I happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness. It would have been nice if a year had allowed us to make progress on…
“OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers” by Zvi

October 12, 2026 · 46 min

Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for ‘mishandling sensitive company information.’ Those employees have published an open letter. The employees have said they believe…
“New Math from OpenAI” by Zvi

October 9, 2026 · 43 min

It is kind of a huge deal. OpenAI dumped a broad range of huge new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. They just put it all on GitHub. This included 90 of the top 500 open problems in all of math, as per Proof of…
“AI #189: New Math” by Zvi

October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

The big drop of this week was not a new AI model. It was instead the biggest day (so far!) in the history of mathematics, as OpenAI dropped solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems, along with many others, reached on an average…
“The Curve Bends You” by Zvi

October 7, 2026 · 38 min

The plan is no plan. That is not the worst possible plan. But it is close. Since before the transformer, we have warned that the most suicidal thing you could do would be to ask your AI to do your alignment homework, and automate the…

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“Childhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards” by Zvi

October 6, 2026 · 39 min

First you get to college via the wrong metrics, as previously discussed in #12. Then things get easier. I’m still digging out from under everything that happened the four days I was gone. Normal AI posting should resume tomorrow, likely…
“AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon” by Zvi

October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

Is Google back? They claim that they are back. Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out, with competitive frontier-level benchmarks, at 2 dollars/10 dollars. What we don’t have is access to the model, because Google Fails Marketing Forever. So it…
“A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety” by Zvi

September 30, 2026 · 27 min

The leaders in AI were invited to the White House. We left with a White House agreement that is nonzero Actual Progress rather than a step backwards. The key to success, in many situations, is to call the whole operation something…
“Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned” by Zvi

September 29, 2026 · 21 min

We once again got a new set of warnings yesterday, and new movement towards living in a sane world. On the heels of its pause in inference and training due to its latest sandbox escape, OpenAI has cancelled the planned release of their…
“What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace” by Zvi

September 28, 2026 · 41 min

OpenAI has been holding out on us. First we learned about the HuggingFace incident. They gave us a postmortem, but it was highly incomplete. Even the accompanying holy s*** METR investigation and postmortem was localized and…
“The Quest for Embedded Evaluators” by Zvi

September 27, 2026 · 18 min

Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside perspective and also reports on what was…
“Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions” by Zvi

September 26, 2026 · 37 min

When it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level. They should have raised yours, too. Claude Opus 5.5 should raise your ambition levels again. It just works…