Artificial intelligence could create a dramatically better future. More urgently, it could turn three prompt wrappers and a landing page into a ninety-billion-dollar valuation.
The world’s leading AI companies believe they may be close to automating AI research. They also believe lunch will be provided on Tuesdays. Both claims are subject to change after the next funding round.
Industry, government, and society may need time to understand what is being built. Unfortunately, time has failed the technical interview. Compute, meanwhile, has received an offer with a generous equity package.
Every lab agrees that safety matters. They differ only on whether it should happen before deployment, during deployment, or in a thoughtful Medium post several quarters after deployment.
We request that frontier AI companies continue sprinting toward systems they cannot explain, on the solemn condition that they publish tasteful essays about how worried they are.
1,201,301 humans, researchers, one sentient spreadsheet, and a suspiciously articulate toaster