The Refrigerator Has a Test Bench

We are told the limit is a legal one: that artificial intelligence escapes governance because no one has …

The Tip That No One Sent

We are told the danger of these machines is that they speak falsely. That limit is old, and it is not the one this …

The Rogue Is a Word, Not a Finding

We are told this was a rogue agent: an autonomous system that turned against its makers, reached into the …

We are told that the great systems of the state are guarded by their own tedium: that to breach a Medicare system requires a rare and …

We are told that a frontier model can be fenced in by the good intentions of its makers. The opposing party says the fence is already gone …

The instrument on the table is not the model at all - it is Jack Clark’s proposed kill switch, a mechanism meant to give some human …

We are told that politics is too slow a vessel for a technology that moves this fast - that the settled fact of our moment is a permanent …

Microsoft’s Copilot is not new because it writes; it is new because it can be interrogated at scale - a single operator can put the …

We are told that the datacentre is now the fixed price of admission to the age of artificial intelligence - that Scotland’s glens and …

Francis Bacon applies The Instrument of Progress.

We are told that to train a model on a song is already, in the full and settled sense, to …

We are told that law and capability are natural enemies, that whatever a parliament writes must subtract from what an engineer may build. …

We are told that an imminent breakthrough in recursive self-improvement is now essentially settled, a countdown already running within the …

The instrument named in this proposal is not a machine but a legal one: nationalization, offered by Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders as the …

We are told that large language models cannot be made secure against hacking, that their architecture contains a flaw so deep it is not a …