And so the marriage of Big Tech and Big Government will be consummated. Make no mistake, this is not "ethical AI," but an open conspiracy against the public. It is the constitutional convention of a new technofeudal order in which the ordinary citizen has no say.

Sam Altman @sama

I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.

Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

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Here it is - the official, revised, peer-reviewed version of my Platonic Space paper. Of all the many unpopular positions I’ve taken over the decades - bitter controversies around the origin of left-right asymmetry in embryogenesis, bioelectricity and

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