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Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London. https://transformernews.ai
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AI safety researcher have long warned about a set of behaviors skeptics insisted were fantasies like deception (including during training) and reward hacking. These days, examples of those concerning patterns are showing up more and more often. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-misalig...

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

It's your last week to apply to Tarbell Grants! We're offering $1,000-$15,000+ for original reporting on AI and its impacts. The first round has been a huge success — to inspire you to apply, here's a short 🧵 of pieces we're very excited to have supported so far...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Tarbell Grants Round 2 is back! Learn more and apply:

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Transformer is hiring! We're looking for a managing editor and a reporter to help grow our coverage of transformative AI systems into the world’s leading publication for AI decision-makers.​ Details and links below 👇

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I've finally written a bunch of 2024 roundup stuff — best theatre, books, films, and everything else. Links in thread:

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

arguably the best to ever do it. RIP.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Downloaded Xiaohongshu but it’s not letting me pose my questions 😔

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Great post by @franksdavid.bsky.social on how to spot BS in biotech announcements

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New piece in TIME: AI progress hasn't stalled — it's just become invisible to most people. 🚨 I used to think that AI slowed down a lot in 2024, but I now think I was wrong. Instead, there's a widening gap between AI's public face and its true capabilities. 🧵

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments

"I find myself wondering if the people consumed with talk of AI hype are paying enough attention to the technological leaps that took place just within the past few weeks." Couldn't agree more!

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

happy new year to you all

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

This paper was pretty widely misunderstood by almost everyone. Read @lynettebye.bsky.social on why model collapse fears are overrated: www.transformernews.ai/p/synthetic-...

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

I've made some predictions for AI progress in 2025 using Sage's excellent tool. I encourage everyone — especially sceptics of AI progress — to make your own predictions! You've got until tomorrow to do so. theaidigest.org/2025-ai-fore...

submitted 172 days ago • 2 comments

Because everything has an AI angle: Samuel Butler, the first AI doomer, was also one of the first people to propose that the Odyssey had a female author. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/authoress-od...

submitted 172 days ago • 2 comments

"people who are actually working with AI" who are worried about loss of control risks (a very incomplete list): Paul Christiano Jade Leung Marius Hobbhahn Alec Radford Victoria Krakovna Yoshua Bengio Dawn Song Yi Zeng Buck Shlegeris Stuart Russell Mira Murati Gillian Hadfield Anca Dragan

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

Weirdly little H5N1 discussion over here. Over on the other platform, knowledgeable people are starting to ever so slightly freak out...

submitted 175 days ago • 3 comments

DeepSeek just released a new open weights model that appears to be *very* good. And the training run cost only $5m! github.com/deepseek-ai/...

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Twitter is currently ripping itself apart, as the “tech right” realise they’ve got into bed with a bunch of racists who hate brown people. You absolutely love to see it.

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment