Musk predicts AI will surpass humanity in 5 years
In an Economist interview, Elon Musk pairs a forecast of AI-driven abundance with fatalism about its risks, leaving open how societies, governments and rival labs manage the turbulent transition.
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Microsoft's Suleyman says AI welfare rhetoric invites dangerous autonomy
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman tells Rory Stewart that accelerating AI is right but treating it as a conscious moral patient is a dangerous path to autonomous machines.
Anthropic's founders say trust and incentives, not rules, make safer AI
Anthropic's Dario and Daniela Amodei argue that scaling points toward AI surpassing humans, and that trust, principled training and business incentives, not rules alone, determine whether it stays safe.
Why overpaying for power-law winners inflates venture bubbles
Matt of Bain Capital Ventures argues that rational price insensitivity toward power-law winners inflates bubbles, even as he judges AI's frontier capability gains, not valuations, as the deciding variable.
Rival AI labs race to build what they fear
Christiane Amanpour interviews Kevin Roose, author of The AGI Chronicles, on why AI labs that fear superintelligence keep racing to build it, and whether unelected insiders should decide.
After OpenAI's proof dump, mathematicians' job shifts from solving to understanding
Computer scientist Scott Aaronson argues AI's solution of hundreds of open problems cannot be undone, pitting mathematics' ideal of open participation against grief over lost careers and unreviewed proofs.
Menlo broke its own fund rules to back Anthropic at $4 billion
Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy explains why a pre-revenue $4 billion bet on Anthropic defied venture fund math, and whether that rule-bending logic still holds as AI growth accelerates.