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Intelligence, Agency, and the Human Will of AI The Alignment Problem is Us

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Have Your Factory Call My Factory In this installment of our Obliquities editorial column, we argue that the social kernels circulating in intelligence media are the equivalent of i...

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‎Arco (2025) directed by Ugo Bienvenu • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 10-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age...

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The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

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AI power users can't stop grinding AI was meant to give us more time off, but instead many are finding it compels them to take on more and more work

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