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Personalized AI is rerunning the worst part of social media's playbook
The incentives, risks, and complications of AI that knows you
Jul 21 • 
Miranda Bogen
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June 2025

Unresolved debates about the future of AI
How far the current paradigm can go, AI improving AI, and whether thinking of AI as a tool will keep making sense
Jun 30 • 
Helen Toner
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Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn’t good for democracy, actually
The shameless spin around Stargate UAE
Jun 6 • 
Helen Toner
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May 2025

In search of a dynamist vision for safe superhuman AI
Embracing creativity, risk-taking, and competition while staying clear-eyed about risks
May 12 • 
Helen Toner
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April 2025

2 big questions for AI progress in 2025-2026
On how good AI might—or might not—get at tasks beyond math & coding
Apr 23 • 
Helen Toner
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Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse
Making the most of “adaptation buffers” is a more realistic and less authoritarian strategy
Apr 5 • 
Helen Toner
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The core challenge of AI alignment is “steerability”
"Steered to where" is a different question from "steerable at all"
Apr 3 • 
Helen Toner
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"Long" timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short
The prospect of reaching human-level AI in the 2030s should be jarring
Apr 1 • 
Helen Toner
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