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Otto Lehto

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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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Michael Levin

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9 Sep

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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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐

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10 Sep

Sometimes it feels like Millennials, who were born after the lead poisoning but before the algorithms, are the only truly sane generation.

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Google DeepMind

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8 Sep

We’re launching AlphaGenome Atlas: an AI-powered searchable database mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes.

Here’s how it could help researchers better understand our biology 🧵

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Hume’s essay appears modest, but it cuts deep. Much like its author, the text is genteel and unassuming, but surreptitiously radical.Hume writes beautifully and argues elegantly. Sure, there is a floweriness to the style that might be…

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