Billy Perrigo
@billyperrigo
Tech correspondent @TIME
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) time.com/6247678/openai…
Seems like more people should be talking about how the richest companies in the world are explicitly trying to build recursively self-improving AI systems they don't know how to control🤷
Mark Zuckerberg: “We're starting to see early glimpses of self-improvement with the models. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. Our mission is to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world. We should act as if it's going to be ready in the next two…
Guy who can't stop his AI from praising Hitler:
We’re going to make Baby Grok @xAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content
ChatGPT Agent is the first model we classified as "High" capability for biorisk. Some might think that biorisk is not real, and models only provide information that could be found via search. That may have been true in 2024 but is definitely not true today. Based our…
We’ve activated our strongest safeguards for ChatGPT Agent. It’s the first model we’ve classified as High capability in biology & chemistry under our Preparedness Framework. Here’s why that matters–and what we’re doing to keep it safe. 🧵
Proud to have been one of the first media outlets to write about this issue 6mo ago time.com/7210888/deepse…
When models start reasoning step-by-step, we suddenly get a huge safety gift: a window into their thought process. We could easily lose this if we're not careful. We're publishing a paper urging frontier labs: please don't train away this monitorability. Authored and endorsed…
people are flocking to AI apps because the open internet was killed by the modern digital advertising business model most web pages are a garbage fire of terrible ads by pure necessity of survival because all the $$$ goes to Goog, Meta and Amzn
Musk on AGI: "Will this be bad or good for humanity? I think it'll be good. Most likely it'll be good. But I've somewhat reconciled myself to the fact that even if it wasn't gonna be good, I'd at least like to be alive to see it happen." (Followed by awkward silence)
Leaked docs reveal Meta is training its chatbots to message you first, remember your chats, and keep you talking trib.al/Rh0nF7i
Leaked docs reveal Meta is training its chatbots to message you first, remember your chats, and keep you talking trib.al/Rh0nF7i
I notice this memo says nothing about open-source. And of course it doesn't. Zuck isn't offering $100m sign-on bonuses to build superhuman AI and give it away for free
Zuckerberg memo to employees, per a source, lays out vision for the "Superintelligence" division and new hires he says meta is "uniquely positioned" for the moment the sales pitch is, essentially, "we the have money, compute and scale that most of our competitors do not"
"Human-caused pandemics are 5x more likely than they were just a year ago, according to a study." "Most thought [AIs beating teams of virologists] was >5yrs away. In fact, the threshold was hit just *months* after the survey." "LLMs have hit many bio benchmarks in the last…
How concerned should we be about AIxBio? We surveyed 46 bio experts and 22 superforecasters: If LLMs do very well on a virology eval, human-caused epidemics could increase 2-5x. Most thought this was >5yrs away. In fact, the threshold was hit just *months* after the survey. 🧵
being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot
People have sent 3.1 million messages to an AI chicken
There's been a palpable vibe shift on this issue in recent weeks. At the same time, we're days away from congress potentially killing state level AI regulation for a decade, with no federal regs. AI safety is winning the war of ideas, but tech is winning the policy fights.
A sitting Congresswomen literally discussing 'loss of control risks' from artificial superintelligence?!! The discourse in Congress has changed.
AI that I'm building will likely kills us all, but I'm optimistic that ppl will stop me in time.. - CEO of Google
🚨 Google CEO says the risk of AI causing human extinction is "actually pretty high" (!!) But he's an "optimist" because "humanity will rally to prevent catastrophe" Meanwhile, his firm is lobbying to ban states from ANY regulation for 10 YEARS. This situation is I N S A N E.