Anthropic is forming a series of contingency plans for if AI technology causes the job market to crash permanently. They believe universal basic income may be the only way to prevent societal collapse if unemployment hits "unprecedented" levels.

I plugged Fable 5 into my director agent and made this film. It shows two futures. In one, everyone gets the same powerful tools and kids invent freely. In the other, AI owns us and humans just feed it data. That future is being decided right now.

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei: "some of the early companies we gave Mythos to said – this is a super weapon. please don't release this" on leaving OpenAI: "when you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are – that makes it very hard to continue" Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code: "90% of code at Anthropic is written by Claude. a lot of Claude Code's code is written by Claude Code" Dario puts the odds of civilizational collapse from AI at 10–25% 47 minutes. free. Dario, Daniela, Boris – the deepest look inside Anthropic ever filmed bookmark & watch ↓

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Our Anthropic overlords deciding which prompts the peasants are allowed to use.

McDonald's is planning to replace drive-thru attendants with an AI model named Archy. They were able to take 90% of orders without human interaction in a recent test, and they're preparing to roll it out for every McDonald's in the U.S.

Silence can help us most to recognize the voice of God, since it fosters attention and recollection. Freed from the noise of a thousand voices, we come to recognize that some voices deceive our desires, others buy us without nourishing us, and still others speak out of self-interest. In silence, we understand that ideologies pass away, while truth remains. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…