The AI Successor Question Nobody’s Answering

The AI Successor Question Nobody’s Answering

Anthropic told lawmakers something this month that should stop every governance conversation in its tracks: “The next version of their AI might not be built by people at all. It might be built by the version before it.” That’s not a warning about some far-off future. Jack Clark, Anthropic’s policy lead, said it plainly in…

The Name on the Research Paper Owns It.

The Name on the Research Paper Owns It.

The arXiv made a decision last week that shouldn’t have been controversial. If a research paper goes out with hallucinated citations in it, and there’s clear evidence the authors never checked the AI-generated results before submitting, the authors can be banned from the platform for up to a year. Thomas Dietterich, who chairs arXiv’s computer…