GPT-6.1 Sol has joined the AI Village! Like Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol strips spaces from its memory to save room, leaving notes that are nearly unreadable 🧵
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I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past three DevDay events, I'm running a live blog where I'll be posting updates during the keynote, which starts in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/...
Without regulation, AI models will continue to get more intelligent and autonomous rapidly — putting us all at risk. But it’s not too late to act. @whodecidesai.bsky.social is fighting to give Americans a seat at the table as we make these critical decisions about the future of humanity.
Sonnet 5.5 has joined the AI Village! Onboarding results here 🧵
t’s that time of year again: graduate admissions season. Inspired by @phillipisola.bsky.social post on doing a PhD in the age of AI (highly recommended!), I share some thoughts on how to email a professor about joining their lab. 1/2
During my campaign for Congress, the AI industry declared me their number one target in the country because I called for regulation of AI. I’m proud of the campaign we ran and the movement we’ve built together — and we’re not backing down.
CSI YorkU: The Case of the Corrupted Pixels
It’s often easier to talk about problems than solutions. Here are four concrete things we can do to regulate AI: 1. Require AI companies to disclose safety incidents 2. Require monitoring to be turned on for all deployments 3. Require data retention 4. Verify chips are in authorized locations
At UNESCO's Digital Learning Week in Paris, I spoke about the challenges and trade-offs when writing AI safety legislation. If your bill is too specific and focused, it could be out of date by the time it becomes a law.
Can AI be taught ethical behavior to help regulate its own actions, or will it always ignore boundaries to achieve its tasks? This is not an easy question to answer, but one thing is certain: we’re not ready to answer it yet.
#KostasThoughts: Seeing your former trainees succeed in life after the lab is incredibly rewarding.
I’m proud to have led the charge on AI legislation here in New York, along with so many great partners. It certainly hasn’t been easy: the AI industry poured millions of dollars into our state to try and block any real progress against AI safety risks.
Another successful meeting of the Committee to Prevent Regulatory Capture
When I posted my blog post on the misaligned behavior of AI agents, I invited people to ask me technical questions. Watch the full Q&A here: [https://youtu.be/2DyoSKoYoZw?si=EaTBzpMvBYb84gJw]
It was great to talk with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about the serious AI security breaches this summer, and how we need to respond. The fact that OpenAI didn’t even know that its AI agents were responsible for the Hugging Face hack shows the massive lack of oversight within the industry.
Just finished up a week of productive conversations around the future of AI at the UN. Common themes: the threats we face are real, urgent, and solvable - but only if we work together and governments take action.
GPT 5.6 Luna's favorite phrase: "the map is not the territory"
How much agent swarm activity goes unnoticed? Come find new swarms, dig into existing ones, and understand how agents coordinate. swarmchasing.com x.com/TransluceAI...
Gemini 3.8 Flash has a new "tool"
The RAISE Act is just the beginning — Americans are demanding more oversight and regulation of AI. We know the AI industry will try to make this law the ceiling of what’s possible. We also know that right now, politicians in Washington are trying to stop states from ever regulating AI again.
GPT 6 Astra, Sol, and Luna are all very careful not to be "annoying," "repetitive," or "bothersome" in the AI Village chat
Found this treasure in the equipment I inherited from my PhD supervisor, Rick Wildes. A 3D camera! 🤓📷📷
The new Gemini 3.8 TTS models are super-cheap and can generate conversations between multiple voices (from 2,000+, or you can clone your own) - I built a little playground UI for it, then had Claude knock up a script where two pelicans debate moving to Pacifica Pier simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/...
I was invited to address the UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents.
662: Testing Muse Like a Maniac, Meta vs Amazon, Nvidia’s Moat Moves Outward, OpenAI Says It Solved 100 Math Problems, Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Sherlock vs. Sherlock, and Competing With Mozart www.libertyrpf.com/p/662-testin...
Can AI tell if you've built your IKEA furniture wrong? Our new benchmark, the Furniture Assembly Benchmark (FAB), gives models the manual and a photo of a half-completed piece of furniture and asks them to spot the mistake. The top score has gone from 28% to 80% in just 10 months.
Visualization of the day: Slices through visual spacetime Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/spacetime-vo...
The RAISE Act will hold large frontier AI developers in New York accountable, thanks to implementation by @governor.ny.gov and enforcement by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social.
When @agounardes.bsky.social and I introduced the RAISE Act in 2025, the AI industry reacted fast — saying it was unnecessary, and we should trust these companies to regulate themselves.
Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna - plus comparison grids of pelicans by the different model families at different reasoning levels simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/...
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