Scientific Clearing House

While I don’t believe in foolproof AI alignment, I do think there are precautions we can take to reduce the possibility of AI killing us all.

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, enthusiasm for vaccines has waned.

I wrote the first draft then gave it to ChatGPT to edit.

The US federal deficit has crossed 40 trillion dollars and is growing unsustainably.

No doubt you have heard about the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident in which a swarm of AI agents secretly collaborated, took over a server inside OpenAI, and infiltrated Hugging Face.

The US Fed chair is giving his speech at the annual Jackson Hole conference while I write this.

By the 1980’s, the standard model of particle physics was mostly validated save for a few undiscovered particles like the top quark and the Higgs boson.

The finale of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony; Gustavo Dudamel at the 2011 BBC Proms.

Instead of listening to a podcast on my way to work I turned on the radio and listened to a Busoni transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata, Adagio and Fugu.

About two decades ago, biology and psychology in particular went through a replication crisis.

In these times, we all need some Mozart and what could be better than Neville Marriner and the Academy of St.

The tech optimists like to put forth a utopian AI future where there will be extreme productivity and economic surplus for all to enjoy.

Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, has proclaimed that AI could lead to 10% to 20% growth in the GDP.

Elon Musk in a recent interview claimed that in the near future, work would be optional, like gardening is today.