The idea of an intelligence explosion caused by recursive self improvement has been around for a long time but until very recently it did not seem imminent. Now many leading researchers think it may happen quite soon. You can read our paper about it here:
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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I am finishing a book with @patchenbarss that gives a non-technical explanation of how AI works and explains why it is dangerous and what we should do about it.
@VikingBooks @VikingBooksUK
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I just watched an amazingly good lecture by Adam Brown about the future impact of AI on physics
I just had my first ride with HOVR, a Canadian alternative to Uber. They are cheaper and pay their drivers more. They already have over 3000 drivers in the Greater Toronto Area. You can download HOVR in App Store and Google Play using this link 📷
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Our lying Ontario premier has just stolen $50 from every single person in Ontario. The estimated cost of repairing our beloved Science Center was 200 million dollars. The firm that made the estimate was told to multiply it by 1.85 to make it bigger. We were then told it would be better to build a new science center. Now we learn the new center will be smaller and will cost a billon dollars before the cost overruns. The only win is that the extensive parking lots of the old Science Center will be available for his developer friends.
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This is a great report that provides a thoughtful, detailed and very well researched description of the risks of AI. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to write or talk about AI risks.
Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵
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I just watched a really great conversation about the future of AI. Every politician should watch it before they join the lemmings saying that regulation of AI will interfere with innovation.
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I recently talked about the old days with Jeff Dean.
It was delightful to do a fireside chat with my longtime colleague @geoffreyhinton a couple of weeks ago, moderated by @JordanJacobs10. The recording of our full discussion is now on Spotify:
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Democratic politicians seem to be incapable of learning from Trump. They should never use the word "tariff". They should always say "federal sales tax". Trump went ballistic when Jeff Bezos suggested listing tariffs as if they were a sales tax. Using the word "tariff" is gross political incompetence.
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I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems.
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I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works.
Some generous companies in Toronto are funding three lectures on AI safety by Owain Evans on Nov 10, 11, 12.
Tickets are $10 and are available at
A major cut to the funding of the National Science Foundation would be very bad for the future of the US.
There is a book on Amazon called "Modern AI Revolution" by Geoffrey Hinton. This is a scam. It has nothing to do with me and I wish Amazon would remove it.
Congratulations to @Yoshua_Bengio on launching @LawZero_ — a research effort to advance safe-by-design AI, especially as frontier systems begin to exhibit signs of self-preservation and deceptive behaviour.
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I just watched a great compilation of various people's views about what is coming:
AGI is the most important and potentially dangerous technology of our time. OpenAI was right that this technology merits strong structures and incentives to ensure it is developed safely, and is wrong now in attempting to change these structures and incentives.
We're urging the AGs to protect the public and stop this. (2/2)
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I like OpenAI’s mission of 'ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”, and I’d like to stop them from completely gutting it.
I’ve signed on to a new letter to @AGRobBonta & @DE_DOJ asking them to halt the restructuring. (1/2)
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Researchgate sent me a fake paper called "The AI Health Revolution: Personalizing Care through Intelligent Case-based Reasoning" which claims to be by me and Yann LeCun. More than one third of the citations are to Shefiu Yusuf which may mean nothing.
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