Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go…
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Save the date: Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 (7-8 November, ETH Zurich)
Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 is the next chapter of the Zurich AI Safety Day. Last year, our inaugural 2025 event was named Best Event in…
Ethical consumption needs to be easy to identify, accessible and affordable, especially in a worsening economy. And we need to rethink what we should be optimising our economy for
I don’t know anyone who wants the rainforest, which is storing carbon and biodiversity and undiscovered medicines for us all, to be burned down for their…
A peek into the post-capitalist dystopia
I recently took the proverbial “tech” pill and decided, like many other twenty-somethings, to spend my summer in San Francisco with the intent of getting an…
Takeaways from the Australian AI Safety Forum
On 7 and 8 July, I attended the Australian AI Safety Forum 2026 at The University of Sydney. It was two days of big ideas and…
A Solution to Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI
SummaryIn 2010, Paul Christiano wrote Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI, in which he asks how we can sandbox arbitrarily dangerous AIs and recommends Homomorphic Encryption as…
Nuances in the Workings of the Eye and Retina
Image edited from source at BritannicaThe eye (any eye) is a miracle of evolution, which has filled its structure at every scale with an apparent intentionality…
The Coming of the Global Brain: A Review of "The God Test"
I have published a brief review of Robert Wright's new book on AI and took the opportunity to discuss Teilhard de Chardin and the directionality of…
My "Payorian FairBot" was just the original FairBot
MIRI's proof-based prisoner's dilemma tournament defined agents encoded as formulas of Peano arithmetic (PA) with one free variable. mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0; } mjx-container [space="1"] {…
Endogenous Alignment
Starting when children are fairly young, usually around 1 year of age, we adults begin the work of aligning them to our values. We teach them…