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An ex-OpenAI researcher’s influential nonprofit is now smack in the middle of AI’s doom debate
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks…
Trump threatened Canada’s Bombardier over US production. Here’s where the planemaker already employs Americans.
Canada’s biggest aircraft manufacturer has a larger footprint in the US than many people think. Bombardier — known for making multimillion-dollar…
A billionaire wanted $125 million for his Aspen compound. He got $33.5 million.
Billionaire and member of the famed Koch family Bill Koch tried to offload his massive compound in Aspen for nine figures, but ended up selling it at…
AI employees with apocalypse fears face a troubling question: Should they quit or stay?
AI workers with apocalypse fears are facing a troubling, though not unprecedented, career dilemma. Should they quit their jobs to avoid potentially…
I had my dream job, but never felt financially secure. I went from $500,000 in debt to debt-free in under 2 years.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christos Garkinos, founder of Covet by Christos. It has been edited for length and clarity. I…
Hugging Face CEO says asking Anthropic researcher ‘about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change’
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill…
A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids
Climate change can’t anticipate our next move. An asteroid can’t dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that…
Confluent cofounder says believing in AI’s upside means reckoning with its ‘dark side’
AI safety fears have recently moved from an abstract Silicon Valley argument to a series of unnerving real-world episodes. Jay Kreps, a former…
Michael Burry says the best defense against dollar doom and AI disasters might be a fine Bordeaux
Michael Burry has turned from water to wine. The star of “The Big Short,” who made waves for investing in water after calling the collapse of the…
Here’s how 7 US cities still remember 9/11, 25 years later
Today is the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes, crashing two into New York’s Twin…