Along with all the other pretty dramatic AI news lately, the big story you might be missing is just how much money is being spent lobbying both for and against AI regulation. Both sides claim the lead in AI’s high-stakes midterm race: www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores...

"We come from different organizations, different backgrounds. We have different concerns: safety, ethics, labor, democracy, art, human dignity. We’ve all arrived at the same conclusion: slow down." So what gives with this new wave of anti-AI protests? www.transformernews.ai/p/scream-if-...

The Transformer weekly newsletter is here! The big AI story has been around Anthropic, the Pentagon and the White House, but our Big Story this week is focusing on the big, big money moving around AI and campaign financing. Stay on top of all of it here: www.transformernews.ai/p/what-the-f...

Introducing the Transformer AI Campaign Finance Tracker — the ultimate tool for monitoring AI's influence on elections.

You've probably got.a lot of questions about autonomous weapons, and you likely have a lot of anxieties about them too. We've got a lot of answers, though we probably can't help with those anxieties. What you need to know about autonomous weapons: www.transformernews.ai/p/what-you-n...

He's fought against regulating cryptocurrency, and now he's helping OpenAI avoid regulation too. Here's what Chris Lehane has brought to OpenAI, and how it symbolises just how much they've changed in the last few years.

He helped crush crypto's enemies, and he might be the clearest symbol there is of what OpenAI is transforming into, or even how it lost its way. On the "guerilla warrior" who taught OpenAI how to fight: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-gueril...

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael called Dario Amodei “a liar [with] a God-complex”, and OpenAI have raised an ungodly $110b, which could help with building the machine God. Catch up with all the week's AI news via the God-like omniscience of our weekly update: www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-...

"Humans have come up with lots of creative ways to kill each other over the last few millennia. Our deadliest mass murders, however, have mostly been incidental." Concerning the nightmare scenario: just how worried should we be about AI biorisk? www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-biorisk...

"It is not hard to picture how such an administration would weaponize AI-enhanced surveillance." This is exactly how the leading AI labs could already be leading us into a technological dystopia. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-dod-fi...

"We cannot be at all confident that OpenAI can or will actually prevent the Pentagon from using its models to conduct mass surveillance on Americans. We just have to take the company, and the government’s, word for it. History suggests we shouldn’t." www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-pen...

Mass surveillance has never been very popular with the US public. But the untested ground of AI-enhanced state surveillance could be an existential threat to the future of American democracy itself. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-dod-fi...

"As the Snowden files revealed, mass surveillance is nothing new. But AI could take it to an entirely new level, creating a true digital panopticon." In enabling AI-enhanced surveillance, could these major AI labs foster a dystopian nightmare? www.transformernews.ai/p/the-dod-fi...

Is the increased productivity from AI causing more work for AI users? Is the left taking the right approach on incoming superintelligence? And do British AI researchers be like "anfropic?" Catch up with all the AI discourse with our weekly newsletter. www.transformernews.ai/p/white-hous...

If AI isn't replacing you (and it seems to be replacing a lot of people), it might still be forcing you into an evermore burdensome grind. For all its benefits, instead of alleviating our burnout, is AI becoming the very thing that's burning us out? www.transformernews.ai/p/all-watche...

"We would all hope that AI companies would proceed carefully. However, it appears that caution has been thrown to the wind." In our newest piece, Lord Hunt argues that the UK has to spearhead a pause on the development of the most advanced AI models. www.transformernews.ai/p/why-we-nee...

Glib, clever, semi-ironic dismissals of AI as just a "next-word predictor" or as "not really intelligence" might be stunting the left from actually seeing what AI is, what AI might become, and what the left might actually be able to do about AI. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

Alex Bores wants to fix the Democrats' AI problem, with a “willingness to stand up to the political influence that is pushing for nothing to happen”. But what exactly is it going to take to make something happen instead? www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores...

On our weekly newsletter, as ever, we've got everything you need to know about what's been happening in the world of AI. For instance: a bunch of people have been leaving AI Labs lately due to quite severe concerns. So should you be severely concerned too? www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores...

The left is used to rather glibly dismissing AI as something unlikeable, insignificant, and faddish — but this risks them missing their chance to see it for what it is, and to actually co-ordinate on doing something about it. Our latest piece: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

“This ‘let it rip’ approach that is coming from the federal government right now is one that won’t serve us well." Read our interview with House candidate Alex Bores, plus everything you need to know in AI policy, in the latest Transformer Weekly:

Last week the AI frontier jumped forward — twice. But the more advanced AI becomes, the more difficult it is to tell whether novel AI models are dangerous: evaluation techniques simply cannot keep up with the jagged frontier. So we're flying blind. www.transformernews.ai/p/going-in-b...

The political world is unsettlingly chaotic, the AI world is dizzyingly rapid: but if you want to stay on top of how they affect each other, you can always rely on our very calming and well-organised weekly newsletter. www.transformernews.ai/p/going-in-b...

Nvidia is (maybe?) open to investing as much as $100b in OpenAI! SpaceX has acquired xAI, creating a $1.25t company! Google plans to double AI spending this year up to $185b! For these and more inconceivably large numbers, check out our latest newsletter. www.transformernews.ai/p/going-in-b...

Psst! Our latest weekly newsletter is out! From brawls between CEOs via Superbowl ads (very scandalous!) to AI trying to hire human CEOs to represent them out here in "meatspace" (deeply eerie!), it has pretty much everything you could possibly need to know about AI this week.

"I threw this out here like a grenade and here we are". By now, that's probably not something you want to hear about the big shiny new (and deeply consequential) thing in AI. But Moltbook has been thrown out here like a grenade, and, well, here we are. www.transformernews.ai/p/moltbook-i...

Last week, San Francisco’s Best Buy sold out of Mac Minis, presumably scooped up by tech bros hoping to make OpenClaw safer by quarantining it inside its own computer. But Moltbook and OpenClaw are still a total security nightmare. And the threat extends beyond their users.

Yoshua Bengio has warned that “the pace of advances is still much greater than the pace of [progress in] how we can manage those risks and mitigate them." And these examples of just what AI's capable of should serve as a wake-up call. www.transformernews.ai/p/yoshua-ben...

We've got all the vital AI news from every outlet you could read, and all the maddening discourse from every feed you could endlessly browse. Consider our weekly newsletter a hub to stay on top of everything going on in the very dizzying world of AI. www.transformernews.ai/p/dario-amod...

Much gets said about the circular/incestuous economic arrangements in the AI industry, so maybe it's fitting that political consultancy Targeted Victory established a non-profit called American Resolve, which appears to simply be a channel for funding Targeted Victory itself.

ChatGPT launching ads seems like another step in them descending into being slop merchants — and at a time when, as at least some of your feed around this post will show you, the internet's got quite enough AI slop already. AI can do better than this! www.transformernews.ai/p/openais-de...

The very macho-sounding political consultancy Targeted Victory has established a very macho-sounding non-profit called American Resolve, which appears to be a channel for funding the very macho-sounding Targeted Victory itself. Circular finances and conflicts of interest abound.

It's time to stop viewing autonomous weaponry as speculative science fiction, and to start viewing it as the life-or-death matter that it already is. Here's why Alexander Blanchard argues that a false 'ban or bust' choice could undermining vital, timely action on AI warfare.

In the Ukraine-Russia war, autonomous 'killer robots' aren't science-fiction, but a battlefield reality with a body count. So the need for states to take a coherent, nuanced approach to regulating them isn't sci-fi, but an urgent, vital priority, argues Alexander Blanchard.

Why is everyone talking about continuous learning? Because it's broadly recognised as one of the greatest bottlenecks to General Intelligence — AI being able to solve any problem a human can — and because, later this year, it might not be. www.transformernews.ai/p/teaching-a...

As of this morning, more than 450 tech workers have signed a letter urging their CEOs to cancel ICE contracts, speak out publicly, and pressure the White House to pull ICE out of cities. It's yet to be seen whether this matters to them at all. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-workers...

Our weekly newsletter: it's probably the best way to stay on top of all the AI discourse online without going insane. You can read it all and subscribe over here: www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-ceos-wa...

Did you know the AI boom has created a shortage of electricians and plumbers needed to build data centers, with a projected shortfall of roughly 81,000 electricians annually through 2034? Our weekly newsletter's filled with this sort of vital information: www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-ceos-wa...

Keep in mind that you can always subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay on top of every need-to-know bit of AI news. Obernolte’s AI bill, Altman’s fundraising efforts, Mast v Sacks — you can read it all right here. And isn't that incredibly convenient? www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-ceos-wa...

“It’ll be pretty hard to do good research in a ‘masked men execute civilians on the street’ political environment.” Employees of the major AI labs are publicly criticizing the Trump administration after the Minnesota shooting — though their bosses aren't. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-workers...

'Continual Learning' is one of the great problems in AI research right now, and an obstacle to superintelligence — how can LLMs learn as they go along? In our latest piece, we've looked into ways it might actually be overcome pretty soon... www.transformernews.ai/p/teaching-a...

'Continual Learning' is often considered the biggest obstacle between current AI and AGI (what good is superintelligence if it can't really learn?) In our latest piece, we've broken down just why continual learning is so difficult, and how we might overcome it. www.transformernews.ai/p/teaching-a...

Anthropic researcher Sholto Douglas predicted that “continual learning gets solved in a satisfying way” this year. It's often considered the biggest bottleneck between current LLMs and AGI — but how are far are we really from solving it? www.transformernews.ai/p/teaching-a...

If you've been following AI over the last few years, you’ve most likely encountered these quite dramatic graphs. The METR “Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks” benchmark is often seen as a critical bellwether of AI capability growth. But it might have some major flaws.

From concerns about child welfare and existential risk to human life, over to earnest theological fears that AI is blasphemous, the AI safety sphere may have found an unlikely ally in the American right-wing: here's how MAGA learned to love AI safety. www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l...

The METR graph — the near ubiquitous chart of exponential growth in AI capability — has become a cornerstone of arguments about the march towards AGI, and how long it will take to get there. But as Nathan Witkin argues, there are plenty of reasons to doubt it. www.transformernews.ai/p/against-th...

Google's Gemini will power Apple's upgraded Siri (hm!) OpenAI claimed they didn't want the deal anyway (sure...) The announcement pushed Alphabet to a $4t valuation (oh!) Musk tweeted "this seems like an unreasonable concentration of power"(the 'everything company' guy...?)

In our newest newsletter, we have our eye on 7 key races in the (very, very tense) American midterms where the battle over AI regulation will come to the fore, and where that $100m industry-backed PAC Leading the Future will try to make their mark. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-midterm...

In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the AI arms race, Rep. John Sherman held up a copy of "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies". That said, the DOD's new AI strategy states that "the risks of not moving fast enough outweigh the risks of imperfect alignment."

Meta’s Trump hire, the never-ending Grok scandals, and so much more. Here's our weekly newsletter, which covers everything you could possibly need to know about AI through the last seven days, all in one very convenient and very readable location. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-midterm...