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Taking Jaggedness Seriously
Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
Nov 24, 2025 • Helen Toner
Personalized AI is rerunning the worst part of social media's playbook
The incentives, risks, and complications of AI that knows you
Jul 21, 2025 • Miranda Bogen
Unresolved debates about the future of AI
How far the current paradigm can go, AI improving AI, and whether thinking of AI as a tool will keep making sense
Jun 30, 2025 • Helen Toner
Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn’t good for democracy, actually
The shameless spin around Stargate UAE
Jun 6, 2025 • Helen Toner
In search of a dynamist vision for safe superhuman AI
Embracing creativity, risk-taking, and competition while staying clear-eyed about risks
May 12, 2025 • Helen Toner
2 big questions for AI progress in 2025-2026
On how good AI might—or might not—get at tasks beyond math & coding
Apr 23, 2025 • Helen Toner
Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse
Making the most of “adaptation buffers” is a more realistic and less authoritarian strategy
Apr 5, 2025 • Helen Toner
The core challenge of AI alignment is “steerability”
"Steered to where" is a different question from "steerable at all"
Apr 3, 2025 • Helen Toner
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