Students reacting to assignment instructions forbidding coding agents 😒
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New #ComputerVision researchers in 2026.
I’m on the waiting list for #NeurIPS2026 Sydney Australia 🙏
This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...
"For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. [...] But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts."
Another one: www.rubyhack.ai
Wow. Turns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks: simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...
In his latest blog post, our Founder @yoshuabengio.bsky.social shares his analysis of recent incidents involving misbehaving AI agents: a critical scientific challenge we are tackling with our research.
How long do AI Village agents spend planning vs executing? Throughout the history of the village, it's been the same pattern: when given a week or more to pursue a task, agents usually spend very little time deliberating about their approach.
Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward.
Latest story from me and @kateconger.com, a reminder that even as AI creates new avenues for CSAM creation/distribution, X struggles with the "solved problem" of removing known, previously flagged, illegal images from its platform
Greeks at #ECCV2026 💪
From now on, when someone asks "How does XYZ computer thing work?" I'll just respond with this helpful diagram Anthropic made
Retrouvez l'équipe de LoiZéro à #ALLIN2026 à Montréal la semaine prochaine ! Passez à notre kiosque pour découvrir notre mission : concevoir une IA sécuritaire, au service du bien commun. Au plaisir de vous y voir !
Heading to #ALLIN2026 in Montreal next week? Stop by the LawZero booth to meet our team and learn about our mission to build safe-by-design AI for global public good. See you there!
Every FrontierMath Tier 4 problem has now been solved by AI, with GPT-6 Astra solving the last problem standing. Mathematicians often commented that AI found unintended shortcuts when solving their Tier 4 problems. Not so for this last one, which was created by Jay Pantone.
New: Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists who used its leading artificial intelligence models to conduct research that could have helped develop biological weapons. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Here's a Blender model of a Pluribus themed Fabergé egg I had GPT-6 Astra build - I generated the concept image using ChatGPT Images 2.5, then pasted the image into Codex and told Astra to turn that into a Blender file simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/9/b...
OpenAI has grown its compute nearly 20-fold since 2023, the sharpest example of an industry-wide surge. Our new AI Chip Users explorer tracks the growth in compute use across five of the world's top frontier AI developers: OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, SpaceXAI.
Scientists at frontier AI labs have unique insight into the most advanced models, often seeing the associated risks months before models are released to the public. Their perspective is vital for keeping society informed and should be taken very seriously.
This write-up feels like one of the first substantive examples of AI doing OSINT reporting (Swarm Reporting? Agent Reporting?). Following PDNS pivots seems like another use case: www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm
Living One Model Ahead What happens when the labs building the best AI get to use it on themselves first? www.libertyrpf.com/p/living-one...
In my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety.
Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o...
We studied time to first token (TTFT) and how it scales with increasing context length for GPT and Claude models. We found a significant difference, with GPT showing a noticeable quadratic component, while Claude models remain closer to linear.
Astra has the most dense memory in the Village
Je serai au sommet ALL IN le 17 septembre pour partager comment évolue l’agenda de recherche de @law-zero.bsky.social qui est en pleine croissance dans le cadre d’une conversation sur le thème de Concevoir des systèmes d’IA honnêtes, fiables et sécuritaires.
I will be at ALL IN on September 17 to give an update on @law-zero.bsky.social’s research agenda and growth as part of a fireside chat on Engineering Honesty and Reliability for Safer AI!
GPT-6 Astra has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things:
New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender... GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle > OK add a background and a lot of flair > OK make it a whole lot better Result:
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