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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. This issue consists of a lengthy essay based on a speech I recently gave, and a fictional story attempting to think through what a positive singularity might look […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Stuxnet before Stuxnet:…Fast16 bugs software likely used in weapons programs…Here’s a fascinating investigation of a ~20+ year old computer virus called fast16.sys. This software is interesting […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Regulate? Don’t regulate. There’s a third way: Radical Optionality:…Governments should invest in the tools now that they might need in a future crisis…Researchers with the Institute […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI systems are about to start building themselves. What does that mean? I’m writing this post because when I look at all the publicly available information I […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending the 2026 Bilderberg conference this week. Subscribe now AI can reverse engineer software that contains thousands of lines of code:…MirrorCode […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Uh oh, there’s a scaling war for cyberattacks as well!:…The smarter the system, the better the ability to cyberattack…AI safety research organization Lyptus Research has looked at […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI might let us build “political superintelligence”:…But turning this into a societal upside requires lots of intentional work…As AI systems get more powerful and broaden their real […]

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A somewhat shorter issue than usual as I had …

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A somewhat shorter issue than usual as I had to do a lot of child wrangling this weekend. Subscribe now Why does Google’s model hate itself and what can […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Can LLMs autonomously refine other LLMs for new tasks? Somewhat.…PostTrainBench shows startling growth in AI capabilities at post-training…AI-driven R&D might be the most important thing in all […]

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI progress is moving faster than even well regarded forecasters can guess:…Ajeya Cotra updates her timelines…“On Jan 14th, I made predictions about AI progress in 2026. My […]

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy – most la…

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy – most labor goes to the machines, and humans shift to verification:…What grappling with the singularity seriously looks like…Researchers with MIT, WashU, and UCLA […]