Alan Shimel

A tongue-in-cheek look at six ways AI could supposedly threaten humanity, separating dramatic extinction scenarios from the risks worth taking seriously.

The important AI security question is no longer whether a model can find a weakness. It is whether a goal-seeking agent can turn tools, permissions and reachable infrastructure into a path nobody intended.

The race for AI leadership is becoming a race to turn capital, concrete, copper and power into productive compute.

Alan Shimel reflects on his first day using OpenAI’s Astra, exploring how the model handled complex cybersecurity research, evidence gathering and editorial analysis while highlighting the importance of keeping a human at the helm.

AI is unusual because it occupies two positions at once: It is a workload the enterprise must operate and a worker acting inside the enterprise.

OpenAI’s Astra has reignited the argument over artificial general intelligence. For users, the more consequential questions concern capability, trust and control.

Washington says access to copyrighted material may be necessary for America to win the AI race. If so, why are publishers and creators expected to finance it?

Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel are right that humans created this AI reckoning. But their article mistakes the excesses of today’s buildout for the permanent shape of the future.

Signal65’s PINNACLE benchmark moves the argument from abstract intelligence and […]

Anthropic says Chinese AI labs improperly used Claude’s outputs to train competing models. Now music publishers accuse Anthropic of building Claude with copyrighted works acquired through torrents and scraping. The legal claims differ, but the contradiction is becoming difficult to ignore.