A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It) www.templeton.org/news/plato-w...

Classical and Quantum Phase Space Mechanics, by Karim Pierre Yves Thébault, Free for two weeks! cup.org/3MhJMDA

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Philosopher @elayshech.bsky.social explains the mind-bending reality of a third class of 2D particles called 'anyons' - using baseballs, holes, loops, and a coffee cup that's topologically equivalent to a doughnut aeon.co/essays/anyon...

In recent years, evidence has been accumulating for a third class of particles called ‘anyons’ which rewrite the rules for how particles move, interact, and combine. However, they’re theoretically possible only in 2D, so what kind of reality do they actually possess? if any at all?

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My new piece in the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

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Researchers ranked AI models on scientific Q&A. OpenAI’s o3 came first. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new paper shows that the “creativity” of certain AI may actually be a direct, inevitable consequence of how they are built. Webb Wright reports: www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-...

arxiv.org/abs/2506.18852 It's kinda already happening though, MI groups are already peppered with philosophers...

Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them? Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to find out. @mollyherring.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nat...

"Models... resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals—including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment." www.anthropic.com/research/age...

@bostonreview.bsky.social just published a Forum on a recent (critical) post-mortem of US COVID policy, with responses from me and @cailinmeister.bsky.social, along with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, Adam Gaffney, and @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social. V. interesting! www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch https://go.nature.com/43PmE5s

OpenAI finds that tiny bits of bad data can trigger “misaligned personas” in LLMs—broad toxic behaviors from narrow inputs. But these features are detectable and reversible. A new path for AI debiasing? cdn.openai.com/pdf/a130517e...

Will AI take our jobs — or will companies reinvest in helping us do them better? Mechanize, a new AI startup, isn’t subtle: it wants to “fully automate work… as fast as possible.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/t...

Can large language models support mental health—or do they risk causing harm? A Stanford study found that when prompted to act as therapists, LLMs often gave advice that was misleading, inaccurate, or inappropriate. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Are colors in the world—or just in your head? If your red isn’t my red, does that mean color is subjective? Most people think so. But we argue colors are real and objective—out there in the world, not just in your mind: theconversation.com/colors-are-o...