So let’s take a deep breath and look at what we might learn from the range of opinion about what the current call for “pacing” or a “pause” means: At Future Perfect’s newsletter, editor Maria Bolotnikova concisely sums up the newsmaking events: In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of “recursive self-improvement,” where the machines can build their own, more powerful successors much faster than humans can. By July, a swarm of OpenAI agents, of their own volition, broke out of their controlled environment and hacked into Hugging Face, a major AI platform; they collaborated, divvied up work, and even left notes for one another. Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon Read More ›

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