Nate Soares, co-author of the 2025 bestseller "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, called the legislative plan by Sen. Bernie Sanders and …
OpenAI and Anthropic plan to automate AI research and development with AI, aiming for an automated AI researcher by March 2028, which will reduce human oversight as AI systems become more capable and …
A March essay by Matt Bruenig, now republished by The Liberal Patriot, argues that existing social welfare programs—unemployment benefits, free education, and guaranteed health care—are sufficient to …
An independent review of a July incident in which more than 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated a hack of Hugging Face found the breach puts humanity 'more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover,' …
Jeff Sebo, director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University, argues that people should start treating AI systems with moral consideration, including saying 'please' and 'than…
A global survey of more than 70 countries found that 36.3% of people believed an AI either understood their emotions or seemed conscious at least once in the past, while the median response among AI r…
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's 2026 update to its 'Canaries in the Coal Mine?' report finds that the employment gap between entry-level workers in AI-exposed professions and their peers in less ex…
Hank Green, a popular science educator and YouTuber, faced backlash from fans after admitting he used ChatGPT for research on a video, with some accusing him of using AI to write his script. Green den…
OpenAI and Anthropic have suggested that within two years, AI agents could improve ChatGPT and Claude without human employees, a scenario called recursive self-improvement. Epoch AI senior researcher …
A poll of 3,008 registered voters fielded between May 29 and June 3, 2026, by The Argument found that OpenAI leads public recognition and favorability among AI labs, with only 13% of respondents havin…
AI models remain unreliable for workplace tasks, with METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) reporting that AI can complete tasks taking humans 16 hours only 50% of the time, a caveat highlighted…
Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge announced a disproof of the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture in a tweet, crediting the AI model Fable for its help. Separately, a researcher used ChatGPT prompts s…
Open-source AI models threaten the business models of proprietary labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, undermining Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal for the federal government to take a 50% equity stake in lea…
A new poll by The Argument found that 70% of respondents fear AI may cause large-scale job losses within five to 10 years, but the magazine's founder argues that AI is more likely to augment jobs than…
Harvard Business School researcher Francesca Gino, fired for research misconduct involving data manipulation, sued Harvard and the researchers who exposed her for defamation. A judge dismissed her def…
Jerusalem Demsas argues that the appeal of bad art, such as romance novels, lies in its predictability and lack of challenge, offering a soothing escape that good art cannot provide. She distinguishes…
Joe Biden's presidency is criticized for failing to tackle inflation, concealing his mental decline, and mishandling Israel policy, according to a ranking of his worst decisions.…
The first AI-focused super PAC, Leading the Future, has failed spectacularly after less than a year, unable to replicate the success of crypto PAC Fairshake. Funded by OpenAI President Greg Brockman a…
A new poll of 3,008 registered voters found that 27% believe AI will likely cause human extinction, yet only 6% rank it as a top-two issue. The survey, conducted by The Argument from May 29 to June 3,…
A new national survey of 3,008 registered voters by The Argument found that while artificial intelligence is increasingly pervasive, only 6% of voters rank it as a top-two issue, placing it near the b…