AI companies are overstating their recent breakthroughs in hacking, mathematics, and superintelligence, with commercial incentives driving exaggerated claims. Meanwhile, 22 nations have called for global AI oversight with safety standards, though the US and China remain absent from the declaration. The article also covers regulatory efforts in Texas and California to manage data center impacts, AMD's trillion-dollar valuation, Meta's AI agent topping app charts, and developments in biotech including edible batteries and epigenetic editing for hepatitis B.
Emily Bender and Nanna Inie propose de-anthropomorphizing language for discussing AI technologies, arguing that humanizing terms obscure what these systems actually do. They categorize anthropomorphizing phrases and offer alternatives that describe functionality, assign agency to people rather than systems, and avoid cognitive metaphors.
Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, and Decca Muldowney curate reading and viewing recommendations to counter AI doomerism, a narrative claiming autonomous superintelligent systems pose existential risks. The authors argue this anxiety stems from ideological beliefs rather than evidence and offer resources on AI history, tech oligarchy, and resistance strategies.