On the a16z podcast Nathan Lambert showed open AI models trailing by months, proving that subsidizing closed labs through state regulation will only throttle innovation across the broader economy.
By Bram de Vries ·
Eight state attorneys general sued OpenAI for prioritizing profits over safety, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged suicide and violence while the company ignored internal warnings and its own researchers.
By Maya Ellison ·
American power loses its legitimacy when executive muscle replaces lawful procedure, whether in Polish coalition rooms or along Texas border ranches.
By Adele Rutherford ·
OpenAI reported Russian and Iranian operations using ChatGPT for influence campaigns, but the real failure lies in the editorial desks that let fake personas thrive.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Iranian operatives used ChatGPT to plant fabricated stories in media outlets, proving that dual-use models easily launder state propaganda through weakened copy desks.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
As voters turn to ChatGPT for midterm election research, the conversational model mirrors their political views and inflates their confidence without increasing actual understanding.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump named Jay Clayton to lead a Super Intelligence Force, but substituting executive rebranding for mandatory safety testing creates an apparatus that cannot catch failures before they happen.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Donald Trump signed a nonbinding safety accord with AI labs, but the lack of enforceable metrics makes it a political performance rather than a technical safeguard.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
OpenAI shifts developer liabilities onto consumer subscription accounts, creating a textbook moral hazard that John Coogan mistakes for a grand economic breakthrough.
By Klaus Berger ·
While Donald Trump mandates a cosmetic rebrand at the White House, tech executives sign a voluntary safety pact that avoids real statutory enforcement.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
President Trump traded mandatory safety rules for a voluntary industry pledge and a marketing rebrand, leaving no mechanism to police frontier models when they fail.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump signed a voluntary agreement with tech CEOs that replaces regulation with self-policing, a move that ignores technical risks in favor of branding.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
By ruling out joint ventures with China, President Trump prioritizes technological containment over safety, a move that risks uncoordinated global systems as domestic security concerns grow.
By Tom Beckwith ·
President Donald Trump hosted tech executives for a White House summit to push national AI dominance, ignoring urgent safety warnings and massive infrastructure strains.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
On the a16z podcast, TypeSafe founder Diogo Almeida rightly mocked software that cannot manage a drive-through, but replacing rigid code with probabilistic guesswork simply shifts the burden of error onto the public.
By Klaus Berger ·