Connor Axiotes

NEW Making God clip - @GaryMarcus & I speak about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's change of tune on regulating AI models 2023 Senate testimony: Sam wants regulation 2025 Senate testimony: he backtracks... Gary gives us his takes as he sat next to Sam at the first Senate hearing.

Another day, another completely unexpected @OwainEvans_UK result. LLMs are weirder, much weirder than you think. Good luck keeping them safe, secure, and aligned.

lmao crazy result, in case you somehow thought AIs weren't weird enough yet

New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵

New Anthropic report: Build AI in America. We outline what it will take to ensure America has the energy and infrastructure it needs to maintain its leadership in AI.

There is still an opportunity for @OpenAI to live up to its founding promises, instead of abandoning them. Here I explain what this could look like.

I harangued @AricFloyd for years trying to get him to do a youtube channel... but 2M+ views on the first go? Dang, that's impressive. (It's also a great video - an overview of @DKokotajlo's AI2027 - check it out!)

It's trendy for politicians to show off extremely short timelines. In the UK, this is especially curious given (a) the Secretary of State for technology is one of them and (b) with a few notable exceptions, the UK is behaving as if AGI is centuries away Link below 🇬🇧

SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews economist.com/united-states/… from The Economist

when did “it might kill us but I need to build it faster” become fashionable?

There are really 2 bitter lessons in AI. This is the second.

I will officially start at OpenAI as CEO of Applications on August 18. I am sharing this essay on why I believe AI can be the greatest source of empowerment for all. 🧵 openai.com/index/ai-as-th…

The government and @OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership. This will improve collaboration in AI security research and explore investment in the UK’s AI infrastructure.

The deep misanthropy shown below is surprisingly common in some AI accelerationist circles, and people like this should be kept far far from any kind of power. Good on Elon for firing him.

Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."

Intro blog post for CS 2881: AI Safety. windowsontheory.org/2025/07/20/ai-…

IT MAKES SENSE NOW. This xAI employee is openly OK with AI causing human extinction. Reminder: As horrifying as this is, ~10% of AI researchers believe this. It is NOT a fringe view! Unbelievably, even Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has repeatedly argued that extinction…

Even if GPT-5 did nothing besides switching people between o3 and 4o automatically, it would really transform most people’s view of AI. Very few people, even paying users, know that they should often switch to a more capable model, and when you show them o3, they are impressed.

Is this true?

Whether only @OpenAI or both OpenAI *and* @GoogleDeepMind got Gold IMO isn’t the most interesting point. It’s that LLMs got Gold IMO!