“Hey, my boss wants to do something on AI. That’s all the direction I’ve gotten." There's a bit of a gap between what congress should know and what it does know about AI. But there're strange reasons it's come about, and it isn't *impossible* to fix www.transformernews.ai/p/how-to-fil...

Hey look, the Transformer weekly newsletter is already here! Just click through this link to see everything hope-inspiring, frightening, and bizarre about AI right now. The big story this week: might all this Mythos chaos be helpful in the long run? www.transformernews.ai/p/fable-anth...

The Transformer weekly newsletter is here, and if you've been wondering what the hell has been going on with all this Mythos stuff, we've been kind enough to break it all down into easily consumable bulletpoints. There's more through the link: www.transformernews.ai/p/fable-anth...

In our guest opinion piece, Mozilla chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian argues that Trump's decision to lock down Anthropic's new models wasn't about AI safety at all, but rather about something else that might be as frightening: power and control. www.transformernews.ai/p/mythos-fab...

If you get FOMO about AI news (or if, heaven forbid, you're bored), why not click through to our snappy weekly summary? From Trump wanting a government equity stake in AI to policy frameworks for the robo-apocalypse, it's all very interesting stuff. www.transformernews.ai/p/fable-and-...

In general, OpenAI could be a bit more straightforward about their relationship with Leading the Future.

Hey look, it's the Transformer newsletter. Why not have a quick scroll of all this week's vital AI news? AI safety is suddenly being taken more seriously than ever. Which is either comforting or very frightening, depending on your perspective. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-best-a...

The most important AI news; the most interesting articles about AI news; and even the most worthwhile posts on AI. We literally have it all. Have a little browse of the Transformer weekly newsletter, it's pretty interesting: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-best-a...

Democrat Mallory McMorrow has noticed that the sort of anxieties that have been concerning AI watchers for a while now — from AI job displacement to AI just killing everybody — are increasingly keeping the general population up at night too.

Key AI figures such as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have signed a letter urging Congress to increase security on orders of synthetic DNA due to AI biorisk. We covered this threat, and what to do about it, back in October. It's still the same, only closer. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-and-syn...

On the very first day of his second term, President Trump revoked Biden’s AI executive order, which required AI companies to disclose details of their internal safety testing. It says a hell of a lot that he's changing course. So what gives? www.transformernews.ai/p/trumps-ai-...

It wasn't very long ago at all that JD Vance and Ted Cruz were happy to mockingly dismiss AI safety and regulation. But since Trump's decided to take it seriously, they'll have to take it seriously too. So what's led Trump to this surprising point? www.transformernews.ai/p/trumps-ai-...

In our ongoing coverage of how AI money's moving in American political scene: is AI safety’s ‘hard money’ its secret weapon in the midterms? Let us explain: www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-safetys...

While we can be grateful whenever AI's treated with the moral gravity it deserves, the oncoming possibility of the civilization-terraforming "God-like" AGI should concern God's representative on Earth a bit more than it seems to. www.transformernews.ai/p/what-the-p...

AI is taking over such jobs as beating Pokemon Red, winning at least one short story competition, and creating ironicaly fake quotes for a book about AI's effect on truth. Keep up with everything else in AI this week via our delightful newsletter: www.transformernews.ai/p/trump-ai-e...

Just in case it's handy, you can keep up with the rapidly moving and terrifyingly unknowable bleeding edge/jagged frontier of AI with our newsletter (e.g. here's some some pretty interesting/unnerving stuff from this week's). Why not have a look? www.transformernews.ai/p/trump-ai-e...

One of our intrepid writers recently larped as a rouge AI at an AI control conference — and learned a surprising amount about the limits of AI control. If you're curious about something strange and frightening about the near-future, click through here: www.transformernews.ai/p/what-i-lea...

Just three hours before Trump was set to sign an executive order that would've established pre-deployment evaluations for frontier AI models, he pulled the plug. This isn't really an ideal way to run things if you take AI at all seriously.

If you happened to be wondering how to beat a tech giant that wants to build a data centre in your area (and you have a particularly good reason to), a retired tech exec seems to have figured out the trick... www.transformernews.ai/p/new-playbo...

It might be worth taking a step back from the story we've been given about the great US-China AI race and ask if it's actually true — and if it's not, who exactly this story serves, and if we might be able to tell a better one. www.transformernews.ai/p/us-china-a...

It's another Transformer weekly newsletter! From $900b (yes, $900b) valuations to the "sad wives of AI" losing their husbands to chatbots, it's put everything interesting in AI lately in one handy place 👍️ Just click through and have a look around: www.transformernews.ai/p/is-openai-...

Some people might wonder why the data-gathering company Palantir named themselves after the evil, all-seeing stone from The Lord of the Rings that gradually corrupts anyone who uses to use it. It seems it might just be that the controversy is the point. www.transformernews.ai/p/palantirs-...

Here's a hot take: Palantir's hot takes are just a cheap way to manipulate the attention economy so as to manipulate the actual economy. Here's some clickbait: we break down how that all works in the link below. www.transformernews.ai/p/palantirs-...

We've been sold the story of a tense AI race between the US and China with apocalyptic stakes — but it might not be true, it might be serving particular interests, and it might be leaving the rest of us to deal with some pretty severe consequences. www.transformernews.ai/p/us-china-a...

Earlier this week, more than 600 Google employees signed a letter to their CEO Sundar Pichai protesting the company’s ongoing negotiations with the Department of Defense — only to find out at the same time as everyone else that it had no effect at all. www.transformernews.ai/p/deepmind-e...

The Transformer newsletter is here, with everything you'd want to know about AI across the last week, such as this extremely conveniently bullet-pointed summary of what's been going on with Elon Musk's $134b lawsuit against OpenAI. So now you know. www.transformernews.ai/p/government...

It might seem quite surprising that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Bernie Sanders have wound up allies — but there's a case to be made that AI safety would always need to take on a populist, anti-elite form. The AI safety movement needs normies: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-ai-saf...

AI Safety advocates have known for a while now that the near-future's going to get very, very weird. What they didn't know is that they might need people who aren't. The AI safety movement needs normies: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-ai-saf...

Our newest newsletter's up now, if you want to catch up with the quite frightening advances Anthropic has made with Mythos (which is perhaps most discernible from looking elsewhere in the newsletter, in how it's being responded to by the political world) www.transformernews.ai/p/the-contra...

New week, new newletter, and the big story in this one is: did anyone notice that what Jensen Huang said about China on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast this week didn't really make any sense? Here's why his contradiction has enormous ramifications. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-contra...

If you want to spend less time on social media but, like us, you simply can't miss a second of all the beefing and cattiness among the upper-echelons of the AI industry, we can not recommend strongly enough that you subscribe to our wonderful newsletter. www.transformernews.ai/p/pentagon-a...

"Chatbots are not a cure-all for mental health... [but] chatbots are already filling critical gaps." In a bracing new opinion piece, Jess Miers and Ray Yeh argue on behalf of AI as a vital mental health resource. www.transformernews.ai/p/less-liabi...

In 2023, California congressman Ted Lieu introduced what he called the first piece of federal legislation written by AI, using ChatGPT to generate a resolution expressing support for Congress’s focus on AI. Now AI is becoming prevalent in writing laws — so what's the risk in using it?

“Who the fuck knows how to align superhuman AI?” We might be too presumptuous when we think human intelligence can handle AI superintelligence. So here's a radically counter-intuitive idea for you: the case for automating alignment research. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-alignme...

"Despite individual CEOs expressing concern about the risks posed by their technology, none seem willing to slow down unless everyone else does, too." AI alignment researchers want to automate themselves. Here's why that could be a pretty big problem. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-alignme...

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed" — William Gibson. Psst...have a click around on our homepage to keep around with the bizarrely futuristic stories that make up this present moment: the weird, weird era of AI. www.transformernews.ai

Whether you want to know all the Mean Girls goss on Altman and Amodei's beef, or how ChatGPT has taken Oppenheimer's old job, or about the surprising popularity of insipid-sounding AI-generated dating shows, we've got it *all* for you in our newsletter: www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-populis...

AI labs are getting more and more into the habit of letting AI train itself, and even contribute to AI safety work. And since the science shows that LLMs can't really be trusted yet, that *might* just lead us into some very dark places... www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-alignme...

After our terrifying break of a single week, we're delighted to inform you that the Transformer weekly newsletter is back! And yet again, it has all the AI news you could possibly desire all in one very readable place! Incredible stuff. Here's the link: www.transformernews.ai/p/two-fronts...

The latest Transformer weekly newsletter is here to keep you on top of all the big AI moves — and there've been a lot of big, big moves lately. You can quickly catch up with the rest of what's going on right here: www.transformernews.ai/p/two-fronts...

It's the cutting edge of the cutting edge, the final frontier of the jagged frontier: with our weekly newsletter, you can stay on top of ongoing research about advancing AI capabilities. So why not have a curious little browse around, or even subscribe? www.transformernews.ai/p/two-fronts...

Illinois, which has classically been considered the political bellweather state of America, has aptly become the bellweather state for AI regulation — which means a lot of money and a lot of friction are starting to appear in the area. www.transformernews.ai/p/ais-next-b...

In our latest opinion piece, Konrad Körding and Ioana Marinescu argue that AI will likely have a more limited impact on jobs than people think, due to the physical reality of physical work — and point out what policy makers should do in light of this. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-key-de...

So it seems not everyone's happy about Jensen Huang's relationship with Trump... www.transformernews.ai/p/not-everyo...

If you want to understand NVIDIA, you should understand its unusually close relationship with the White House. Not everyone’s happy about Jensen Huang’s direct line to Trump www.transformernews.ai/p/not-everyo...

The White House is trying to make AI a partisan issue again. And their priorities are quite revealing — the threat of wide-scale loss of jobs is absent, and the framework pushes for “commercially reasonable" child safety requirements. Read more here: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-white-...

A wave of legislation targeting chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude has emerged in six states since the start of the year — but there are vital gaps in these bills which show they might not be up to task when it comes to protecting children.

Our chances of solving the AI alignment problem are heavily dependent on there being a political will to solve it — so if there's no political drive for AI regulation, we could be in a lot of trouble indeed. No, the AI alignment problem isn't solved. www.transformernews.ai/p/no-ai-alig...

How an AI industry-backed lobbying group has spent half a million dollars on buying a grassroots movement. www.transformernews.ai/p/how-to-buy...

Bring up "recursive self-improvement" in Washington, and people are likely to laugh. Bring it up in San Fransico, and the mood quickly turns somber. The big story our latest newsletter: AI's already more responsible for developing AI than you think. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-fuse-i...