Cas (Stephen Casper)
AI technical gov & risk management research. PhD student @MIT_CSAIL, fmr. UK AISI. I'm on the CS faculty job market! stephencasper.com
- Personally, I wish Anthropic would go a step further and also mention at the end of their ads that they aren't currently embroiled in multiple lawsuits over the deaths of children. 🧵🧵🧵 What I like about the new Claude Ads www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- First, I think it will help build popular stigma around the enshittification of AI.
- Second, it's a mask-off moment for OpenAI, an enormously wealthy company claiming that it needs ads to continue letting ChatGPT have a free tier.
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View full threadOverall, don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of Anthropic. But I really think they have done something helpful here that will have a positive effect on our culture around AI.
- The 2026 International AI Safety Report has 221 pages of cutting-edge research from a team of 36 writers and over 100 contributors referencing 1451 citations... ...And also this cheeky riddle that I wrote on page 23 (original content). internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
- The IAISR is one of a kind. Every paragraph has undergone many rounds of scrutiny from dozens of experts and stakeholders over the course of months. I'm thankful for the rest of the writing team. If you're interested, my work this year was mostly in sections 1.1 and 3.3.
- In a few years, I think it would be cool to do a project and write a paper on how prominent AI systems from US companies respond to political questions before vs. after the next presidential transition.
