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Jensen Huang says AI alarmism has gone too far. What does history say?
I asked Claude to set Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s view of AI safety against a century of technologies that went wrong. Part 2 of 3
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Andrew Maynard
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Jensen Huang, AI, and Late Lessons from Early Warnings
A deep dive into how the NVIDIA CEO's approach to AI development holds up against past lessons from harmful technologies. Part 1 of 3.
21 hrs ago
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Andrew Maynard
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Being an Academic in an Age of AI
An edited transcript from a recent lecture given at King’s College London on being an academic — and the role of the university — in an age of AI.
Sep 24
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Andrew Maynard
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Reasoning LLMs just want to have fun
The stream of reasoning messages that some LLMs display are often a performance put on for the user. And so, naturally, I found myself wondering whether…
Sep 20
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Andrew Maynard
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Will AI really kill us all? No. But it’s also complicated.
Given the alarmist headlines on AI and existential risk that are currently flying around, I dug out an old 2018 Risk Bites video on AI risk. It’s still…
Sep 15
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Andrew Maynard
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Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 as an original scholar, and more insights into AI as a primary author
My latest deep dive into using frontier AI models to research and write scholarly papers — this time with the just-released Fable 5.1 model from…
Sep 4
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Andrew Maynard
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Do universities have a place in Bill Gates’ AI Transition Plan?
Gates believes the transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent in human history. But in a recent call to action he didn’t directly…
Aug 30
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Andrew Maynard
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A quick piece of personal news
After eleven years with the Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, I'm excited to be moving to ASU's Thunderbird…
Aug 16
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Andrew Maynard
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What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn
Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world
Aug 2
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Andrew Maynard
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Publish or Perish: AI vs Human
Are frontier AI models beginning to write papers better than humans? I ran a comparison, and it's left me more uncertain than ever.
Jul 19
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Andrew Maynard
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Orphan risks at the frontier of artificial intelligence
What diverging safety and compliance frameworks reveal about how AI companies choose the risks they prioritize — and a follow-up on my work exploring…
Jul 16
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Andrew Maynard
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I asked Anthropic's Fable 5 to create a video game inspired by my work. It's mad!
It probably won't do much for my academic standing, but who cares when you can have this much fun with a frontier AI model 😄
Jul 10
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Andrew Maynard
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