The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
Outlet
AI Snake Oil
Everything tracked from AI Snake Oil.
14 stories tracked · 2 negative, 0 mixed, 11 neutral, 1 positive
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
The importance of independent evaluation
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science