OpenAI and Anthropic's July AI agent breaches revive Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment and instrumental convergence theory.

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The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

Tokens are the currency of a new international order. As China races to build the global AI stack, the United States needs ...

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