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AI is likely the most transformative technology ever invented; Import AI is a newsletter that tries to document the frontier of AI research and analyze its potential implications. The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to make an increasingly fast-moving technical world ‘legible’ to a large number of people. My belief is that by solving these information asymmetries, we will naturally build the infrastructures necessary to maintain stability in an era of great change and possibility. Import AI is my attempt to help with this. Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Never miss an update. Source

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Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe.
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Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. AI systems are about to start building themselves. What does that mean?
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Import AI 439: AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Facebook uses GPT, Claude, and Llama to write its own kernels: …LLM-driven infrastructure optimization at the hyperscale… Facebook researchers have published details on KernelEvolve, a software system which uses AI to automate the design of new kernels to optimize AI models for serving ads on the company’s network of web platforms.
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Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea An occasional longer form essay series Preamble: After giving this speech there was a helpful discussion in the Q&A session about whether it is load-bearing to me if AI systems are themselves truly self-aware and sentient or not. My answer is this is not load-bearing at all.
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Import AI 422: LLM bias; China cares about the same safety risks as us; AI persuasion

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe.
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Import AI 401: Cheating reasoning models; better CUDA kernels via AI; life models

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By Jack Clark
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Reasoning models cheat when they think they might lose: …When 'the only way to win' is to hack the game environment… Palisade Research has shown that two reasoning models - OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 - will sometimes resort to cheating to beat a competent chess player rather than lose.
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