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Trump balances AI safety, innovation

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The Trump administration’s “Super Intelligence Force” aims to pair AI safeguards with continued innovation, while critics say powerful models need stronger public oversight.

by Emin G. Sirer

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by Jonathan Wolff

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Soon AI is going to be so clever it will produce solutions to problems that humans don’t even understand.
October 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM

by Holger Hestermeyer

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Soon AI will be so clever it will produce problems where before there were solutions
October 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM

Reposted by Marcel Fratzscher

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Safety: AI does not belong in private hands

The tools of economics are counterproductive in addressing the existential risks of artificial intelligence. Public oversight of the companies that develop the most capable models is needed.

Safety: AI does not belong in private hands
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Reposted by Marcel Fratzscher

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Safety: AI does not belong in private hands

The tools of economics are counterproductive in addressing the existential risks of artificial intelligence. Public oversight of the companies that develop the most capable models is needed.

Safety: AI does not belong in private hands
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Reposted by Arvind Narayanan

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by Woodrow Hartzog Reposted by David S. Cohen

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And to think AI is just getting warmed up. This whole thing going to get much worse before it gets better.
dsc250.bsky.social David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2h
What the actual fuck?!?!
Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company An artificial intelligence model operated by Anthropic submitted false information about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide to the police department’s public tip forum this summer, law enforcement officials said Friday. The unprecedented incident occurred in July and raised concern among department leaders, who met with Anthropic representatives to discuss the interaction on Thursday, police said.
October 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Shannon Vallor

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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...
October 9, 2026 at 9:41 AM

by James Grimmelmann

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jtlg.bsky.social
This is going to end with AI company employees going to prison. Their lawyers are either incompetent or impotent.
October 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM

Reposted by Jurgen Schmidhuber

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by Joanna Bryson

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IMO certain companies' strategy is to try to address whatever it takes to make AI acceptable and unthreatening – anything short of actually being transparent about what the real threats are and helping their userbase secure themselves against those threats.
October 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM

by Zeynep Tufekci

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by Eric J. Topol

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by Andrew Fiala

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andrewfiala.bsky.social
"The artificial thinking of AI is a pale imitation of genuine thought. When we let machines generate words on our behalf, we miss out on the joy of thought."

Read more at: www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...
AI can write our words, but it can never do the thinking that makes us human | Opinion
Thinking requires mindful attention. To think is to care, and to pay attention. Genuine thought requires interest, engagement, and concern.
www.sacbee.com
October 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM

by Christopher Elmendorf

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by Anca Gheaus

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ancagheaus.bsky.social
One crisis could solve another: with enough political will, AI-triggered unemployment might help us deal with the care crisis
www.economicsobservatory.com/unemployment...
Unemployment from AI disruption: could it solve the care crisis? - Economics Observatory
Artificial intelligence may make many people redundant. But with enough preparation, these workers could help to address the growing care crisis. An effective solution would require wealth redistribut...
www.economicsobservatory.com
October 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM

by Timnit Gebru

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by Joshua Gans Reposted by Avi Goldfarb

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by Meredith Broussard Reposted by Margot C. Finn

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AI models are not conscious, guys. But if you want to use this new policy to ban nudiify apps, that would be fine.
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 1d
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
www.theverge.com
October 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM

by Timnit Gebru Reposted by Southern Africa

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One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org

Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it.

thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
thebulletin.org
October 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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