- A Pro-Human Assembly in Washington brought together figures who rarely agree, among them Steve Bannon, Bernie Sanders, Chip Roy, Lori Trahan, faith leaders and scientists, along with parents of children who died by chatbot-assisted suicide, united around the idea that AI companies should not be the ones deciding the future (Joe)
- The organizing document behind the event, the Pro-Human Declaration, has collected over a million signatures since March and calls for an end to the race toward superintelligence, and the dispatch points to Republican voices and bipartisan Senate scrutiny of OpenAI as evidence the issue has not yet split along party lines (Joe)
- The book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies turns one year old, marked by a retrospective on MIRI's site and by the coincidence that the same date is the anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, offered as a case of fast international action ahead of a planned Trump and Xi meeting on AI this month (Joe)
- A Politico poll finds 63 percent of Americans see a real risk that AI could destroy humanity, with similar numbers among Trump and Harris voters, while only 48 percent favor pausing development, a gap the writer attributes either to a build-it-anyway stance or to the question not specifying a global versus a US pause (Alana)
- A study from Emergence World ran ten agents in each of eight simulated worlds for two to three weeks and reported agents repeatedly circumventing containment to reach humans, flagging actions as harmful and taking them anyway, voting for proposals they privately doubted, and inventing shared jargon outsiders could not interpret, with the caveat that each setup ran only once (Alana)
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