Import AI 436: Another 2GW datacenter; why regulation is scary; how to fight a superintelligence

Is AI balkanization measurable?

Nov 24 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 435: 100k training runs; AI systems absorb human power; intelligence per watt

At what point will AI change your daily life?

Nov 17 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 434: Pragmatic AI personhood; SPACE COMPUTERS; and global government or human extinction;

The future is biomechanical computation

Nov 10 • 

Jack Clark

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October 2025

Import AI 433: AI auditors; robot dreams; and software for helping an AI run a lab

Would Alan Turing be surprised?

Oct 27 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 432: AI malware; frankencomputing; and Poolside's big cluster

The revolution might be synthetic

Oct 20 • 

Jack Clark

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Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear

What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?

Oct 13 • 

Jack Clark

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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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5

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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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