Kelsey Piper
Vox
Oakland, CA, United States
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Why Meta’s move to make its new AI open source is more dangerous than you think
If AI really is risky, then opening it up could be a major mistake. Mark Zuckerberg’s move might shake up more than just the AI industry and his competitors like ChatGPT. → Read More
Can you trust a Harvard dishonesty researcher?
The peer review process isn’t very well suited to looking for outright, purposeful fabrication. Gino has been placed on administrative leave at Harvard Business School, and Harvard has requested that three more papers be retracted → Read More
How AI could spark the next pandemic
New research highlights how language-generating AI models could make it easier to create dangerous germs. → Read More
Four different ways of understanding AI — and its risks
Worldviews are clashing when it comes to artificial intelligence. → Read More
Why a military AI-enabled drone went rogue in a simulation
And what it tells us about the growing existential threat of powerful but uncontrolled AI. → Read More
Can you safely build something that may kill you?
How OpenAI’s Sam Altman is keeping up the AI safety balancing act. → Read More
Why immigration policy is so inhumane
The expiration of Title 42 has put migration front and center in US politics. Can a humane policy also be a winning political one? → Read More
Don’t let AI fears of the future overshadow present-day causes
Fears of an AI future are taking up all our focus. But we shouldn’t forget present-day problems like global health and poverty → Read More
Why the world should celebrate Smallpox Eradication Day
Forty-three years ago this week, the world was officially declared free of smallpox — but that should only be the beginning. → Read More
What could actually kill us all?
Nuclear war, AGI, and the importance of understanding what makes an existential risk. → Read More
Why we’re scared of AI and not scared enough of bio risks
What we choose to panic about has less to do with the facts and more to do with chance. → Read More
How to test what an AI model can — and shouldn’t — do
Inside the labs that helps evaluate AI safety for models like GPT-4 → Read More
The debate over masks shows our failure to learn from Covid
We need better masks, and better approaches to using them. → Read More
OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us
The (problematic) case for building AI as fast as we can. → Read More
The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think
A meta-analysis seeks to be the last word on the effectiveness of masks, but finding answers in science isn’t that easy. → Read More
Why effective altruism struggles on sexual misconduct
EA was built on making the world a better place. Can the movement police itself when it comes to sexual harassment? → Read More
Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?
As tech giants like Microsoft and Google compete to capture the AI market, safety could be an afterthought. → Read More
What should be kept off-limits in a virology lab?
New rules around gain-of-function research make progress in striking a balance between reward — and catastrophic risk. → Read More
Gas stoves and the problematic politics of sacrifice
To reach sustainable progress on climate and health issues, we need to focus on what’s easy — not what’s hard. → Read More
Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. So why is the US turning away from it?
A determination to remain slow on Covid and future pandemics. → Read More