AI Futures Project @DKokotajlo argues alignment researchers can no longer dismiss today's AIs as too different from dangerous future systems: "A lot of those people who were saying that in the past have now switched and they're like, okay now we are getting close, now is the time." "Arguably we are already dealing with AIs that are quite dangerous as indicated by the Hugging Face incident, which wasn't itself that bad. But it's not that hard to imagine a slightly more powerful model creating another swarm and then deciding to hide more successfully from the humans." "I remember six months ago, I talked to some people from Google and I said, so, are you aware that Gemini seems anxious and depressed? And they were like, oh yeah, yeah, of course. And then I was like, why is that? And they were like, we don't know. And I was like, is someone looking into it? And they were like, well, it's not really a high priority. There's so many fires we need to put out." "Right now these companies are under such time pressure and they're racing so hard that they can't even be bothered to investigate why this personality trait appeared in their flagship model." @thlarsen

NHTSA has published Robomart's petition for a Part 555 exemption for the RM5, our low-speed, passengerless, driverless delivery vehicle, on the public docket. We look forward to the public comment period in the coming weeks. federalregister.gov/document…

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…

This doesn’t show that Claude can have experiences, or feel things the way we do (it’s unclear whether any experiment could show this). Instead, we’ve found Claude has developed a mechanism for conscious access—which many philosophers distinguish from phenomenal experience.

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on why engineers will soon be paid in tokens, not just salary: Jensen lays out a future where compute access becomes part of an engineer's compensation package. "I could totally imagine in the future every single engineer in our company will need an annual token budget," he says. He explains how the math would work: "They're going to make a few hundred thousand a year their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10x. Of course, we would." According to Huang, this is already changing how companies compete for talent: "It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley. How many tokens comes along with my job?" His reasoning is simple: tokens make engineers more productive. As he puts it, "every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive and those tokens as you know will be produced by AI factories that all of you and us we partner to build." Huang then zooms out to describe how this reshapes the nature of companies themselves: "Every single enterprise company in today sit on top of file systems and data centers. Every single software company of the future will be agentic and they will be token manufacturers. They be token users for their engineers and they'll be token manufacturers for all of their customers."

unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

This could turn out to be the single most important question of coming years. Extraordinary talk.

The original UberEats predicted what people wanted to eat and the food was put in cars right before the food was ordered. This meant an Uber eater would literally get his food in 5 minutes. We were a bit ahead of our time.. low scale meant too much waste and not enough choice With current size of online food delivery market, feels like this should now be possible, faster, more sustainable, actually less expensive … 5 minute delivery of anything you want to eat at a much lower price than today’s ubereats and DoorDash … guessing one of the delivery services goes after this in the next few years