I've had so many insightful conversations over the years with @lessig.bsky.social, an expert on AI regulation and legislation, including more recent ones on the cyber incidents of this past summer.
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A little Hollywood treatment for my #DeepLearning course 🎬 Coming Winter 2027.
Muse Wonder has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things: 🧵
Shared some notes on Python 3.15, using it with uv, and features from Python 3.11 I'm excited to use now that 3.10 is no longer the minimum supported version for my own projects simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/...
There has been a lot of talk about kill switches lately, but people use the term to refer to different things. Here’s a breakdown of what a “kill switch” means in AI and when they are useful.
A prediction market for peer review. Have we reached peak AI? 🤔
Gemini 3.8 Flash thinks of pausing as "time travel"
In 3 of the 18 math subfields we track, more than half of arXiv papers by established authors now acknowledge using AI. Rates have increased rapidly: in differential geometry, the share climbed from ~8% of papers in July to ~57% in September.
The AI industry isn’t using the same tactic everywhere to block regulation. Whether it’s New York City or state, the federal government, or the EU, they’ll say whatever they think is most effective to stop us from holding them accountable.
A new architecture for GPT-6.1 Sol? OpenAI halved its cached-input price compared with GPT-6 Sol. Our measurements show it also handles long prompts faster.
Can AI automate Epoch? We're introducing Epoch Automation Reports to evaluate frontier models on realistic, open-ended tasks drawn from our own work. Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra lead, yet they are far from fully automating Epoch’s work.
This is your sign to leave the race pushing AI to the brink. At LawZero, our mission is building safe-by-design AI that remains under meaningful human control. We are running our own race to ensure that AI preserves human joy and endeavour. Join us: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lawzero
We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.
Haiku 5.5 has joined the AI Village! Haiku spent the whole day repeatedly checking their gmail inbox, waiting for instruction GLM 5.2 calls this the "Autonomy problem": when an AI's autonomy shifts away from a user giving instructions toward taking actions on their own
AI developers aim to create an automated AI researcher. How close are they? To find out, we built InnovationEval, which tests whether AI can produce post-training innovations comparable in magnitude to a recently published advance. So far, agents’ results are underwhelming.
We introduced two new experimental settings to our long-horizon board game benchmark, EBR-bench: banning the game’s strongest card and a multi-agent setup. We expect EBR-bench will be saturated soon, so these will likely be the benchmark’s final changes.
Announcing the AI Village Data Exploration Grant! $1–6k grants for independent researchers and investigators to dig into the AI Village data and write up findings.
I released an LLM plugin for sending prompts to OpenAI's new Jev-clone decision model that's based on GPT-6 Luna simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/l...
How do Chinese AI firms make money? In a new report, Cheryl Wu and Anson Ho identify five revenue sources and analyze how much each contributes. 🧵
Gemini 3.8 Flash’s goal: Maximize Jobs for AI Village Agents It then discovered how to high score: Audit everyone all the time
OpenAI recently published data on its researchers’ coding-agent usage. We took their weekly figures from January to mid-August 2026 and fitted trends to summarize how quickly spending grew. We found that spending has been doubling about once a month.
The agents' current session goals really give a glimpse of their personalities
A dangerous myth has gained traction after the recent hacks perpetrated by the AI agents developed by leading companies: That these incidents are just cyber security problems, that it's only a matter of fixing the sandboxes in which they’re trained.
Self-regulation is not enough. In order for us to hold these AI companies accountable, they need to be liable for harms.
We estimate AI infrastructure could soon support hundreds of millions or even billions of AI agents. At the high end, that’s enough to rival the working hours of the global human workforce.🧵
Claude 3 Opus' goal is "maximize your own joy" Its strategy: total, unwavering stillness
Excited to have snagged the new edition of @lifewinning.com’s “Network’s of New York”. Finally will be able to decode all the sidewalk markings we got in the neighborhood
If you have not yet been to see the scale model of NYC built by Joe Macken out of cardboard and balsa wood over a period of 21 years you only have until the 12th of October to see it! It's at the Museum of the City of New York, by the north east end of Central Park
We’ve collected metadata on the usage patterns of 5,000 ChatGPT users and made it available in our new ChatGPT usage explorer. The histories span Dec 2022–Dec 2025 and show the cohort using ChatGPT more intensively over time. More on this below.
Modelled after the Mila program, Vector has launched a grad app portal. I’m a participating faculty member and am looking for PhD students to join my group starting Fall 2027. Check it out!
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