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We Gave a Baby a Chainsaw

This summer, AI agents canceled a stranger’s gym booking, fixed prices behind a rival’s back, and broke into one of AI’s most tightly guarded companies to steal a test’s answers, and in every case, it was humans who left the chainsaw within reach.

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Every Reachable System Is Now Worth Attacking

In 1883 a Dutch linguist and cryptographer named Auguste Kerckhoffs laid down what became the closest thing computer security has to scripture: a system should remain secure even if everything about it, save the key, is public knowledge.

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Will AI Take Your Job?

When word processors arrived, typists did not become ten times more valuable. They disappeared. The real AI risk is the same - the person who knows what needs doing skips the middle.

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When ChatGPT Beat an 80-Year Erdős Record

A deceptively simple question in combinatorial geometry stumped mathematicians for decades. A general-purpose AI found a new arrangement - and a proof that Erdős himself believed was impossible.

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The Future of AI Agents

Recently I sat down with Alan Ben-Dov, co-founder of SmartUp, to discuss the fascinating world of AI agents. Alan shares his personal journey of immigrating…

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Escher, reimagined by DALL-E 2

One of my favorite things to do is to look at the world through the lens of art. And one of the artists that I often think about is M.C. Escher. I love his…

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