For anyone over 50: does AI make you feel left behind, or like you finally got a second shot? For me, it's a second shot. I haven't felt this energized in quite some time.

I need a nonchalant response to “I hate you”

Universal Basic Income is coming. Anthropic just put 5% of its shares into a fund for the public. Every 50% rise in its value can add 2% more. It’s the first AI lab to set aside real equity for the people its tech might replace. There is a catch though: Anthropic owns the fund, picks who gets paid, and hasn’t put a dollar figure on any of it yet. AI was trained on all of our work. All of us should own a piece of it.

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works already-clean.goodfire.com/