Three excellent new interviews
- Fabulous deep dive with Brian Greene / The World Science Festival:
- Excellent brief but focused interview on the risks of massive bets on hyperscaling, with Zachary Karabell; keynote earlier this week at Web Summit:
2. More technical; also excellent: why we so badly need neurosymbolic AI and world models, and why software verification is more important than ever in the LLM era. A spicy fireside chat hosted by Will Wilson, CEO of Antithesis, from the lively conference Bug Bash 2026, “A conference on extracting reliable software from the slop factory”:
Bonus: Check out YouTuber Husk on using a GenAI-fueled to bargain on his behalf. LLM-powered AI agents are gonna be great! Watch to the end!
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is there a good set of links on the assumptions hyperscalers have med about depreciation?
May 17Edited
Great stuff, Gary -- you've been busy! (Also, great meeting you at TAIS in Oxford!)
I cover many of these issues (the fundamental cognitive inadequacy of LLM-based chatbots (and why this will never be fixed by scaling), the construction of fully-interpretable world models via continuous learning, and neurosymbolic architecture for AGI) in my paper "Gold-Standard AGI: Outer AGI Superalignment", which I have just submitted to the Springer journal AI & Ethics.
At 214 pages (including 534 references), I admit that my paper may be a little daunting to read -- considering the very high stakes (the future of all humanity for all eternity), I felt that I needed to address every sub-problem as clearly and thoroughly as possible. However, I do believe it’s possible to get at least the gist from reading the Introduction and Conclusion sections alone.
A preprint of the paper (which took me ~8 years to develop) is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16876832. The next paper in the sequence (on inner AGI superalignment) is already in my head — I just hope it doesn’t take another 8 years! :-)