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Rob Wiblin

@robertwiblin
17 posts
2025-10-23
This is absolutely mental.
2025-10-23 View on X
Financial Times

Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”

Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise...

2025-07-15
xAI is an interesting one to watch for an early rogue AI incident: • Does huge amounts of RL (which generates unintended reward hacking behaviour) • Moving very fast, deploys immediately • Has more compute than talented staff • Not doing any safety stuff as far as anyone can
2025-07-15 View on X
TestingCatalog

Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode

Grok has just introduced a notable addition to its iOS app: AI Companions, which are fully 3D animated characters that can interact with users via voice.

xAI is an interesting one to watch for an early rogue AI incident: • Does huge amounts of RL (which generates unintended reward hacking behaviour) • Moving very fast, deploys immediately • Has more compute than talented staff • Not doing any safety stuff as far as anyone can
2025-07-15 View on X
@goodside

[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”

Original thread: x.com/goodside/sta...  So troubling to see manifestation of genocidal hate into algorithmic AI identity and any lack of accountability for it [image] Mastodon: Mat...

2025-03-05
People are sleeping on huge news in the Musk vs OpenAI case today. The judge finds that if Musk's donation gives him legal standing she thinks it's very likely that she'd want to block their entire $100 billion non-profit to for-profit conversion! I deep dive below. 1/ [image]
2025-03-05 View on X
CNBC

A US judge denies Elon Musk's attempt to halt OpenAI's for-profit shift, as he failed to meet the burden of proof, but lets other aspects of the lawsuit proceed

A federal judge in California denied Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity, according to a filing on Tuesday.

2024-10-22
My new RA just dropped: https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]
2024-10-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …

2023-11-02
Part of the “Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023” Includes China: https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-11-02 View on X
Wired

The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms

Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …

Part of the “Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023” Includes China: https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-11-02 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the EU, and the US announces an AI Safety Institute

from government to civil society to the private sector — must work together to build a future where AI creates opportunity, advances equity, and protects fundamental rights and fre...

2023-11-01
Part of the “Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023” Includes China: https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-11-01 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute

The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …

2023-07-26
Policy ideas from Dario Amodei of Anthropic in his Senate testimony yesterday: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [image]
2023-07-26 View on X
Washington Post

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years

07/25/23 Twitter: Robert Wiblin / @robertwiblin : Policy ideas from Dario Amodei of Anthropic in his Senate testimony yesterday: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [image] Guill...

Policy ideas from Dario Amodei of Anthropic in his Senate testimony yesterday: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [image]
2023-07-26 View on X
Financial Times

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models”

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation

2023-05-31
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, many more https://www.safe.ai/... [image]
2023-05-31 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”

and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...

2023-05-30
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, many more https://www.safe.ai/... [image]
2023-05-30 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI and DeepMind execs, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others release a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”

Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

2022-06-20
Counterpoint: currencies are priced on a smooth continuum and there are no such ‘thresholds’. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-20 View on X
The Block

After suspending withdrawals on Friday, Babel Finance says it has reached “preliminary agreements” on repayments of “some debts”, helping ease its liquidity

- Babel Finance says it has reached “preliminary agreements” with major counterparties “on the repayment period of some debts.”

Counterpoint: currencies are priced on a smooth continuum and there are no such ‘thresholds’. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Bitcoin fell to under $18K on Saturday, below its $19,511 high during its 2017 bull cycle, as ether dropped below $1K; both are down 70%+ since November 2021

what this means Robert Reich / The Guardian : The Crypto Crash: all Ponzi schemes topple eventually Hudson Lockett / Financial Times : Celsius warns it will ‘take time’ to stabilis...

2021-02-16
The notion that the Bay Area or tech industry are full of conservatives, let alone neoreactionaries, is, as a purely factual matter, abject nonsense: https://noahpinion.substack.com/ ...
2021-02-16 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

2021-02-15
The notion that the Bay Area or tech industry are full of conservatives, let alone neoreactionaries, is, as a purely factual matter, abject nonsense: https://noahpinion.substack.com/ ...
2021-02-15 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful.  —  11 hr ago

2019-12-28
“Amazon has about 35% of US ecommerce. But, it competes with physical retailers as well and on that basis, Amazon's real market share of its real target market is closer to 6%” https://www.ben-evans.com/...
2019-12-28 View on X
Benedict Evans

Amazon has ~35% of US ecommerce and ~6% of addressable US retail, and is two thirds the size of Walmart, which would make an antitrust case against it difficult

Benedict Evans : Tweets: @aaronbuley , @stevesi , @robertwiblin , @eicker , @mschoening , @evplusev , @sachinrekhi , and @mayank_b23 Tweets: Aaron Buley / @aaronbuley : Wow. Hard ...