Author of "GPT-5s Are Alive: Basic Facts, Benchmarks, and the Model Card" in LessWrong
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The Pentagon's demand for blanket AI approval from companies like Anthropic without transparency, combined with threats to label them supply chain risks, creates dangerous misalignments over military AI use policies including autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
“Author of "AI #156 Part 1: They Do Mean The Effect On Jobs" in The Zvi”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reaffirms predictions of extremely rapid AI capability advances including potential 'geniuses in a data center' within years, driven by seven key scaling factors, though company strategy remains conservative relative to stated optimism.
“Author of "On Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast With Dario Amodei" in The Zvi”
GPT-5 is a good but not great model that cuts down on errors and hallucinations, with improved coding and thinking capabilities, though OpenAI's release messaging around it invoked problematic Death Star analogies.
“Author of "GPT-5s Are Alive: Basic Facts, Benchmarks, and the Model Card" in LessWrong”