As stated earlier, I believe now is a REALLY good time to pivot to alignment and safety

Some quick takes: (1) Wow things are getting real. (2) The government's order focusing on prohibiting transfer to foreign nationals (even e.g. those living in the US, our close allies who help evaluate model safety in the UK, individuals who work at frontier labs like Anthropic) seems remarkably destructive, though is partially a result of the government using older legal authorities that were not designed for this kind of technology. (3) If you believe (as I do) that AI has profound ramifications for national security, then assuming the government will sit back and do nothing and tolerate explanations like "well jailbreaking is a hard technical problem" for cyber capabilities that used to be the crown jewels of the NSA, is not tenable. If this is how the government reacts to the current level of system capabilities in 2026, how do you expect them to react to whatever is possible in 2028? However, it is extremely important that the authorities that the government uses are legible, transparent, have opportunities for appeal, and are narrowly targeted. Those legal authorities do not currently exist, and in their absence, the government will reach for metaphorical sledgehammers instead of scalpels. (4) For that reason, it's extremely important that we create regulatory structures that are transparent and give recourse in the event that the government is overstepping or acting in an arbitrary manner. The alternative to passing such laws is not no regulation, it is regulation left primarily to national security authorities that are increasingly and evidently not fit for purpose.

I reported last month that @johnofa, one of the first partners at Andreessen Horowitz, left his role at the firm due to political disagreements with Marc Ben. Today, he's expanding on that in a column in NYT. "Some of the most powerful players in A.I. — led by some of my friends and former partners, to my great sadness — have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to forestall a more serious and meaningful debate about how A.I. should be governed." nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opini…

nailed it

Reminder that the last 12 months are plausibly the least crazy months of AI for the rest of your life! It's only getting crazier from here ...

I can't stop thinking about how strange it is that large language models are what leads to AGI. it's really weird. it's a form of summoning, almost necessarily, the capabilities you want from a map of reality mediated by words. there are a trillion minds inside an LLM, and we just so happen to have defined a piece of fiction (the assistant) that can write itself into being. In the context of the obvious speed-up of capabilities - I'm really feeling it right now. Things are strange! Very beautiful. Best of all possible worlds. But very strange.

Companies need to stop informing me of their confidential filings. I just don't think I can keep this many secrets.

People underestimate the extent to which “he started it!” and its variants drive AI development

now on the eve of RSI it seems everyone is more mutual conditional pause agreement pilled than they used to be and that seems like a good development

if you don’t understand someone’s behavior in this time a good first guess is that they’re just not ASI pilled enough

telling googles ai that im eating and drinking increasing amounts of salami and monster energy until it starts shouting at me to get help

I have said this before, but to those of us using AI systems to get lots of work done reliably and quickly, the people who post online about how AIs still hallucinate constantly, about how they can’t write code, etc., seem equivalent to people trying to convince you that the car you drive to work every day doesn’t exist. You tell them things like “but I drive a car. I paid money for it. I buy gasoline for it. I could not possibly be working twenty miles away from home if I didn’t have the car?” and they reply that you are imagining having a car, or that you’re lying because you work for a car company. It is as though these people live in a completely different reality.

RT @suchenzang: if your bread-and-butter consists solely of: - tuning hyperparams/config files - fitting points on a log-log plot - twea…

the sheer dollar quantity of ip leakage from openai has been just tremendous, probably in the trillions. openai truly has been quite open

Guy who wants a pause because living through takeoff is exhausting and he just wants a vacation

Starting to mourn all the people who died before the singularity.

Maybe these past years will teach us that putting stupid people in positions of immense power is bad for us