Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””
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The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated
AI-generated content is rapidly flooding the web, raising worries about “model collapse” (AIs learning from AI output and getting blander or less reliable). At the same time, agent tools are arriving: OpenAI’s AgentKit, stronger guardrails, and one-click connections to third-party apps (Canva, Spotify, Zillow, etc.). Instead of browsing and clicking, we’ll increasingly tell agents toContinue reading “The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated”