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Slow Takes Ep. 13: The Pope vs the IPO

Slow Takes Ep. 13: The Pope vs the IPO

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Every Monday at 12:45 BST, Leor from Exploring ChatGPT and I go through the week’s AI news without the hype. Watch the episode for the full discussion. Use this for the facts, the links and a little extra context.Slow Takes is also available on the YouTube channel: Exploring ChatGPT.If you know someone who would benefit from more AI news and less BS then please share this with them.The Pope told the world to slow AI downLeo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, entirely about artificial intelligence, and launched it himself at the Vatican in a room that included senior figures from Big Tech, among them Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. It applies a theological frame to AI and is careful to say the technology can do real good. It also draws an uncomfortable parallel to the Church’s own failures over the slave trade, and warns about digital colonialism. This was my favourite line:“The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them.”This one is also pretty great: “In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.”The weakness is the one Pope Francis’s climate encyclical had too. Plenty of moral architecture, no policy, no teeth.Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 and trailed something biggerThe 4.8 release came with an honesty claim, roughly four times less likely to let flaws in its own code slip through, which is at least a falsifiable number worth testing on the public model. The real story was the tease of Mythos, the model Anthropic once called too dangerous to release because it found so many zero-day vulnerabilities, now arriving as a gated preview in the same week the company raised $65 billion. The live christened the public version ‘Mythos Light’, because what reaches customers is a cut-down version of the full Project Glasswing model. Anthropic is quietly absorbing the enormous cost of running these scans, a loss leader, and the enterprise price can climb once the workflows are embedded and the IPO needs it. My standing bet is an Anthropic float by October.Tony Blair told Labour it is ‘playing with fire’In a new paper the former UK Prime Minister argues the government should reorganise itself around AI and prioritise adoption over regulation. He also writes that:“We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI.”A striking thing to pair with an AI-superpower pitch and the country’s own climate targets. Hold it next to the funding: his institute takes around $348 million from Larry Ellison and advises the Treasury on AI procurement. The detail I keep returning to is that the UK has the third-largest stock of data centres in the world and not one frontier model of its own. We are building the warehouses to train somebody else’s AI. Leor’s counter, which he has taken flak for, is that the honest move is to deregulate AI for companies and regulate it hard for the public.Sam Altman walked back the jobs apocalypseThe CEO of OpenAI reversed his warning this week, admitting that he was “delighted to be wrong” after spending 2022 predicting mass white-collar loss. The data is less reassuring: an Oliver Wyman survey has 43% of US CEOs planning to cut junior roles, up from 17%a year ago. The rule Leor and I keep returning to is to judge a company by what they do and ignore what they say, This is the same Altman who promised OpenAI would stay non-profit, that ChatGPT would never carry ads, and that (back in 2022) AGI was four years away. Leor’s inversion was that these companies are priced on the promise of replacing the entire workforce, well beyond anything their earnings justify, so if they are now telling investors the jobs are safe, why are they worth a trillion?The Home Office will scan child asylum seekers’ facesIt has signed a £322,000 contract to test AI facial age estimation at Dover, to judge whether young people claiming to be children actually are (the BBC reported the contract; Human Rights Watch called it “cruel and unconscionable”). There is a real problem underneath: of 6,400 age-assessed at the border last year, 43% were found to be adults, though the same Home Office report admits children get wrongly classified the other way too. Here is the part to break down slowly. The technology was trained checking ages on people in British bars, and it is now being pointed at child migrants with different faces, different genetics, different everything. As Alex Wolf put it in the chat, a system known to hallucinate confident answers is being used to reject people at a border, and that is a choice. A child’s life is worth the same ...
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