Cover story
Anthropic’s agent sent police a false tip. The failure began before anyone clicked ‘send’.
A web-browsing test ended in a real police form; the submission went to spam, and the company took more than two months to find it.
The debate
What evidence would justify calling a system AGI? And who decides what we do with it?
Ideas under debate
Cover story
The (cultural) battle over AI
The makers of AI assistants promise political neutrality. The US president and the owner of one of those companies have begun explaining, each in his own way, what they mean by it.
Cover story
Twelve axes, four assistants and no shared idea of neutrality
Codex answered 60 statements; Grok answered 240. Claude and Google’s assistant refused to tick boxes, but not to decide which arguments deserved attention. The assignments were not identical, so this was neither a ranking nor a controlled experiment. It does leave a harder question for anyone asking an AI for political advice: what does an assistant decide when it decides what to tell you?
Who decides what AI is for?
Opinion
We Are the Neanderthals
A superior intelligence does not choose for us what deserves to be preserved.
Essential guide
Before Believing AGI Has Arrived: Five Questions
Tasks, comparisons, autonomy and evidence: a guide to examining AGI and superintelligence claims.
Archive and commentary
Democracy Confronts the Algorithm
How do you challenge a public decision when the answer is “the algorithm says so”? Rodrigo Castillo Murillo and Francisco Figueroa Ogalde in El Dínamo.