Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God newrepublic.com/article/2117... via @newrepublic.com

Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/06/06/a...

A narrowing window to understand AI | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Careless people with legal sledge hammers ... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI and Its Discontents @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/z5hQEsU

How to Build a Sovereign AI Stack by Jayant Sinha @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/P1ebg8t?refe...

Industrial Policy for an Age of Uncertainty by Yuen Yuen Ang @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/vUscWUc

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity www.vox.com/future-perfe...

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

"I’ll let you into a dirty secret. Artificial intelligence doesn’t require millions of GPUs in thousands of data centres." www.afr.com/technology/d...

Lawsuit says ChatGPT told FSU shooter that targeting children would bring more attention www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New Scientist NL have made the Dutch translation of my book “The Shortest History of AI" one of the 5 finalists for the Cosmos Book Prize, an annual award for the best popular science books. The winner will be announced in October. www.cosmosboekenprijs.nl/en

Join me tomorrow for an important conversation about Australia's AI future. @MelbWritersFest mwf.com.au/program/toby...

apnews.com/article/meta... Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers allege

So the AGI clause was all just marketing? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

US continues to shoot itself in the foot .... www.science.org/content/arti...

Terrible headline from NYT. A robot vacuum cleaner has no "wants". Robots don't want to vacuum because they have no wants. It should have been "Even Robots Can't Vacuum". www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay  washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/20/h...

Amazon likes giving my books away for free. You might as well profit from it. I probably won't!

Controversial take: just as Dorando Pietri was disqualified from winning the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, the humanoid robot Lightning must be disqualified from the world record for assistance just before the finish line

Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

We need to start addressing this issue urgently www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Within minutes of simple interactions, ChatGPT produced instructions related to self-harm, suicide planning, disordered eating, and substance abuse – sometimes even composing goodbye letters. counterhate.com/research/fak...

Out now! hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/t...

This is a high moral ground for someone who has demonstrated very poor ethical choices such as facilitating the theft of huge amounts of intellectual property ....

What about people who support the theft of intellectual property?

How true (and indeed a central thesis of my next book, "God AI: what to expect when the machines outsmart us"). "a central conceit that plagues the whole AI field: a gross overestimation of the value of intelligence by itself to solve problems." www.persuasion.community/p/ai-cant-de...

AI has about the same negative net approval rating in the US as Trump. We are really messing it up ... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Actually Europeans don't have more privacy, just haven't lost some privacy ...

AI finally creating some jobs .... :-) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...