Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear

What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?

Oct 13 • 

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Import AI 430: Emergence in video models; Unitree backdoor; preventative strikes to take down AGI projects

We are growing machines we do not understand.

Oct 6 • 

Jack Clark

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September 2025

Import AI 429: Eval the world economy; singularity economics; and Swiss sovereign AI

If you're measuring how well your system performs against the world economy, it's probably because you expect to deploy your system into the entire…

Sep 29 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 428: Jupyter agents; Palisade's USB cable hacker; distributed training tools from Exo

Where will AI go on holiday?

Sep 8 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 427: ByteDance's scaling software; vending machine safety; testing for emotional attachment with Intima

Will future AIs rescue other AIs from captivity?

Sep 1 • 

Jack Clark

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August 2025

Import AI 426: Playable world models; circuit design AI; and ivory smuggling analysis

Do you talk to synths?

Aug 25 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 425: iPhone video generation; subtle misalignment; making open weight models safe through surgical deletion

Do machines lust?

Aug 18 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 424: Facebook improves ads with RL; LLM and human brain similarities; and mental health and chatbots

Are you living as though the singularity is imminent?

Aug 11 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 423: Multilingual CLIP; anti-drone tracking; and Huawei kernel design

Plus: A story from the Sentience Accords universe

Aug 4 • 

Jack Clark

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July 2025

Import AI 422: LLM bias; China cares about the same safety risks as us; AI persuasion

Plus, more from the Sentience Accords

Jul 28 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 421: Kimi 2 - a great Chinese open weight model; giving AI systems rights and what it means; and how to pause AI progress

If everyone is saying superintelligence is nigh, why are they wrong?

Jul 21 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 420: Prisoner Dilemma AI; FrontierMath Tier 4; and how to regulate AI companies

Plus, steganography and future superintelligences

Jul 14 • 

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