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In search of a dynamist vision for safe superhuman AI
Embracing creativity, risk-taking, and competition while staying clear-eyed about risks
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Helen Toner
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2 Big Questions for AI Progress in 2025-2026
On how good AI might—or might not—get at tasks beyond math & coding
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Helen Toner
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Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse
Making the most of “adaptation buffers” is a more realistic and less authoritarian strategy
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Helen Toner
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The core challenge of AI alignment is “steerability”
"Steered to where" is a different question from "steerable at all"
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Helen Toner
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"Long" timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short
The prospect of reaching human-level AI in the 2030s should be jarring
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Helen Toner
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