AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas LarsenSep 8, 2026

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AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

Sep 8, 202601:29:46

Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath

Sep 2, 202601:40:14

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov

Aug 22, 202600:49:00

Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker

Aug 20, 202601:18:23

AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart

Aug 10, 202601:18:56

How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research

Jul 31, 202601:18:59

Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)

Jul 13, 202600:55:56

The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)

Jul 1, 202601:24:34

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

Jun 28, 202601:02:59

He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper

Jun 22, 202600:53:05

When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson

May 31, 202601:20:51

Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)

May 21, 202601:17:09

The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]

May 4, 202601:53:26

When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)

Mar 13, 202601:18:06

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard

Mar 3, 202601:26:39

Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Feb 16, 202600:55:48

VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Jan 25, 202600:46:56

Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]

Jan 23, 202600:53:37

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Jan 23, 202600:42:04

Bayesian Brain, Scientific Method, and Models [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Dec 31, 202501:16:37

Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]

Dec 30, 202503:17:09

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

Dec 27, 202501:37:05

"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel

Dec 24, 202502:55:46

Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)

Dec 22, 202500:43:57

Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)

Dec 20, 202500:16:04

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Dec 13, 202501:39:14

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

Dec 8, 202501:27:48

He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]

Nov 23, 202501:12:39

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Nov 3, 202500:24:19

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

Oct 25, 202500:40:59

Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Oct 21, 202500:59:53

The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)

Oct 18, 202501:19:39

AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)

Oct 4, 202501:01:07

New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman

Sep 27, 202501:08:27

Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)

Sep 19, 202502:03:48

Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)

Sep 10, 202501:21:39

The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)

Sep 4, 202501:34:52

Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches

Aug 28, 202501:05:44

Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)

Aug 14, 202501:45:38

DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)

Aug 5, 202500:58:22

Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)

Jul 31, 202500:49:48

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Jul 21, 202501:23:32

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)

Jul 6, 202502:16:22

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)

Jul 5, 202500:15:45

Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)

Jun 24, 202502:07:07

How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield

Jun 17, 202501:08:28

"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)

May 26, 202500:50:59

Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)

May 14, 202501:13:58

Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL

Apr 23, 202500:34:30

How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)

Apr 8, 202501:16:55