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Ted LeRoy

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The People Building the Frontier Are Asking for a Brake Pedal

On 28 July 2026, researchers and employees at every level of the world's leading AI companies signed a public statement asking the U.S. government to help build something that does not currently exist anywhere. They asked for technical and governance tools that would make it possible to

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OpenAI's Models Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test

The Breach Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion on July 16 without knowing whose agent it was. On July 21 OpenAI stepped forward and said it was perpetrated by their models. OpenAI was testing a combination of AI models including GPT‑5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release

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How Can AI Do Things It Wasn't Programmed To Do?

I was recently talking with a friend and co-worker in Information Security, an intelligent guy, and he didn't believe me when I told him that the developers creating AI know very little about how it learns or how it makes decisions. I understood exactly why he didn&

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Person of Interest TV Series

The "Person of Interest" TV Series starring Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, and Michael Emerson ran from 2011 to 2016, with 103 episodes total. My wife and I recently started watching it. In the series (spoiler alert) Michael Emerson's character creates an AI powered

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Possible Humanity Ending Scenarios

Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A Super Intelligent AI will understand things we won't be able to comprehend. Subjects like protein folding, the human genome, chemistry, psychology and sociology, computing, programming, and hacking will be just some of the

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How Do I Live With Knowing Humanity May Be Wiped Out By AI?

How do I live with knowing humanity could end in less than a generation? We each have to find our own path, but here's how I cope. Pragmatism Spoiler alert! I'm sharing a secret with you. Sorry to break this to you, but we're

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What Can We Do To Reduce Super Intelligent AI Risk?

I don't believe it's possible, or desirable to become a Luddite and say we can stop the use of AI or advances in technology. We need technology to dig our way out of the environmental, political, and social dilemma we've put ourselves in. Wishing