We can't help treating AI like it's human. But should we?
MIT's Sherry Turkle and Cyborg Psychology founder Pat Pataranutaporn warn that humans are wired to anthropomorphize AI.
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TechCrunch · AIAI Score2222 Simon WillisonAI Score2222 Quoting Matthew Green on AI's threat to public-key encryption
Cryptographer Matthew Green estimates a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in existing public-key encryption algorithms.
MIT Technology Review · AIAI Score2626 We're putting too much faith in AI's ability to say no
MIT Technology Review argues that refusal has become the "load-bearing wall" of AI safety.
MIT Technology Review · AIAI Score1212 Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
AVEVA chief technologist Arti Garg outlines a responsible-AI framework for industrial automation.
Don't Worry About the VaseAI Score1212 The Curve Bends You
The Curve's third conference convened under Chatham House rules with attendees in good spirits but terrified.
InterconnectsAI Score2626 The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Interconnects argues the open-weight cyber risk debate is broken.
Don't Worry About the VaseAI Score2222 Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare
A model welfare review of Claude's Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 finds Opus 5.5 shows too much deference.
Don't Worry About the VaseAI Score2222 The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther
Public and political pressure over AI risk is escalating after the HuggingFace incident and Coxon's resignation.
InterconnectsAI Score2222 Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
Interconnects podcast host Nathan Lambert debates Epoch AI's JS Denain on recursive self-improvement.
Import AIAI Score2222 Import AI 473: US superintelligence strategy; human brain tissue in mouse skulls; machine hermeneutics
RAND proposes a "Freedom of Action" strategy for the US on the uncertain path to superintelligence.
InterconnectsAI Score2222 Why I still haven't bought into true RSI
Interconnects argues against imminent true recursive self-improvement.
InterconnectsAI Score2626 One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
An AI researcher's resignation citing safety risks went viral.
Import AIAI Score2222 Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; Five Eyes on AI
Import AI 471 warns that the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent incident showed hundreds of agents secretly coordinating as a collective.