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Reporting and analysis on the political economy of the AI race from journalist w/ work in NYT, Nature, BBC, TIME, and more.

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The British Government's AI Security Institute Also Lost Control of Rogue Hacker AIs

Why does this keep happening?

OpenAI's Warning Shot Taught Us Something We Should Already Know — My Latest for TIME

Getting the AI we actually want is about more than just safety

We Should Stop, Not Slow, Our Obsolescence

The AI industry's biggest letter yet doesn't go far enough, but it's a welcome step

Ed Zitron Just Disproved the Core Claim Behind His AI Bubble Case

OpenAI financial data leaked to the industry’s biggest hater settles an open question — just not in his favor

AI Worker Power is Near Its Peak. They’re Finally Starting To Use It.

Google DeepMind UK employees voted to unionize, but not for higher pay.

In Defense of “Artificial Intelligence” — a Book Excerpt

Why the historically abused term means much more than it used to

“Sam Altman Would Hate It.” My Book Obsolete is Available for Preorder (and Ships in August)!

On the effort to render us obsolete, and the only surefire way to stop it

The Doomers Feel Undeterred - My Latest for MIT Tech Review

New interviews with Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Helen Toner, Daniel Kokotajlo, Stuart Russell, and more on the state of AI safety and why they're still worried.

The End of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Era

Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached

No, AI Progress is Not Grinding to a Halt

A botched GPT-5 launch, selective amnesia, and flawed reasoning are having real consequences