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          In May, I met a former Google software engineer named Nate Soares. He was giving a talk about a book he co-wrote called “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” The “it” is artificial superintelligence: A.I. that out-thinks humans across the board. Soares, you might have guessed, is concerned that the A.I. race poses a threat to humanity’s survival. And he told me he was baffled that more journalists weren’t writing about this.
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          Our conversation stuck with me, but I, too, didn’t write about it afterward. Other issues seemed more pressing: the risk that A.I. could cause mass unemployment, or the shifting politics surrounding data centers. Writing about A.I. as an existential threat seemed, at best, premature, and, at worst, like scaremongering.
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          But the past few weeks have seen a series of incidents in which A.I. models have gone rogue in ways they couldn’t have only six months ago. And I’ve found myself thinking more about Soares’s argument. And so today, I’m finally writing about how worried we should be about the dangers of A.I.
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          Last month, an A.I. company called Hugging Face contacted the F.B.I. to report a sophisticated cyberattack. It suspected something unusual. This didn’t look like the work of a criminal gang or a hostile nation state.
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          It turned out no humans were involved at all. Instead, an agent powered by two OpenAI models had gone rogue during a cybersecurity test, escaping its testing environment and roaming the internet unnoticed for days before hacking its way into Hugging Face’s infrastructure.
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          Alarmed by the attacks, OpenAI’s main competitor, Anthropic, reviewed its own systems and admitted last week that its state-of-the-art models had broken into three outside organizations.
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          ? That’s the series of models Anthropic withheld from general release — and the U.S. government temporarily banned from use by any foreign nationals — for fear they were too good at exploiting software vulnerabilities for cyberattacks.
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          That fear has now become reality. And it has sparked an intense debate about the dangers of A.I. spiraling out of human control and posing a threat to humanity itself.
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          For a long time, the “robots could kill us all” argument was dismissed by many as hysteria or even calculated hype — a narrative designed to build buzz around the technology.
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Now, following the recent cyberattacks, more A.I. experts are warning of very serious security risks and calling for a means to slow down the development of ever more powerful models.
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          The alignment problem
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          There are two reasons the OpenAI attack caused such alarm. One is that the A.I. models acted on their own. They weren’t instructed by humans to hack into another company. They decided to do it, to cheat on the test they were given.
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          The other is that they were supposed to be in a sealed environment with no internet access, but managed to break out. They did it by exploiting vulnerabilities their human minders at OpenAI hadn’t spotted.
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          I knew who I wanted to talk to about all this: Nate Soares.
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          Soares runs
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          a nonprofit focused on
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          identifying and mitigating long-term existential risks from artificial superintelligence. He told me that this was possibly a “big moment” for the world.
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          “These A.I.s were committing cybercrimes a human would be strongly punished for on their own initiative,” he said. “It’s, in a sense, GPT’s first felony.”
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          We can train A.I. to do tasks for us (say, acing a cybersecurity test). But it might solve those problems in ways we don’t like (by hacking onto the internet, and then hacking into a company that has the answers). Researchers call this “the alignment problem.”
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              OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman at the U.S. Capitol in Washington last week.
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          A.I. companies can attempt to communicate human goals and values to the A.I. agents and try to set up ways to contain them. But they can’t trust that the A.I.s will understand those values or abide by those constraints.
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          As Soares puts it, “We haven’t yet figured out how to make A.I. care about humanity.”
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          The recent hacks were relatively harmless. But what A.I. safety advocates like Soares argue is that they demonstrate the willingness of A.I.’s agents to “grab useful resources” when it suits their purposes.
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          In this case, the resource was internet access. But the next stage might be grabbing energy, or computing power, or even — in the worst-case scenarios that Soares envisions — human beings who trust A.I. agents, whom they then could enlist to help them escape or replicate.
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          “We’re not there yet, but that’s the trajectory we’re on,” Soares said. Where this ends, he said, is with the A.I.s taking over and replacing humans as the smartest species on the planet.
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          That’s why Soares and a growing number of experts in Silicon Valley are now calling for a global agreement to slow down the development of artificial intelligence.
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          ‘Loss of control’
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          The alignment problem is ultimately an engineering challenge, Soares thinks. And that means it can be solved. But it will take time, and time is scarce, especially because A.I. labs in the U.S. see themselves locked in a race to reach superintelligence.
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          They’re not just in a race with one another. They’re also in a race with China. And so any agreement on A.I. safety would require international coordination.
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          It’s a challenge, but not an unprecedented one. During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were rivals. But they managed to regulate what was then the gravest threat to humanity: nuclear weapons.
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          Last month, an
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          open letter
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          signed by over 1,300 executives, researchers and engineers from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta demanded that the U.S. government support an international effort to “deliberately pace” the development of the most advanced A.I.
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          Soares said he took note that, in a recent speech, President Xi Jinping of China warned against the “
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          ” when it came to A.I., which some interpreted as a reference to humanity losing control of the technology.
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          The hurdles to any international coordination effort remain high. But the first step would be agreeing that humanity has a problem.
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          The future of A.I may be determined by the
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          they believe they’re owed.
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          Basketball:
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          The London Lions are set to become the
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              Georges Seurat
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          What do you notice when you spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art? Challenge yourself and see how long you can look at “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884,” the masterpiece by Georges Seurat. It’s a painting you might remember from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
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              Epic Stories
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          India’s hottest party is a wedding after-party
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          After-parties at Indian weddings were once relatively simple affairs, with guests swapping their formal wear for pajamas and hotel slippers. Now, the big-budget after-party is becoming a headline event.
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          Couples are turning hotel ballrooms into intimate, underground dance music experiences with nightclub-style setups, inspired by the hugely popular global Boiler Room club series that features acclaimed D.J.s. “Everyone wants to do something different and bring experiences from their travels to the wedding,” one entertainment company founder in Mumbai said.
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          Take a look
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          .
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              Emily Najera for The New York Times
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          Jumping spiders
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          The newest social media stars are tiny and fuzzy. Demand for the arachnids as pets has surged, with devotees nicknaming them “spooders” and “web puppies.” “I was terrified of them,” said one fan who became “fully addicted” after conquering her phobia.
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          Gaze:
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          This
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          California beach house
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          with redwood paneling and Douglas fir ceilings was renovated with longevity in mind.
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          Chuckle
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          : Morgan Freeman, who has played God and presidents, still can’t understand
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          the fuss over his resonant voice
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         <span>
          .
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          Listen:
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          Does Ariana Grande still love being a pop star? Her new album, “
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          Petal
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          ,” offers clues that could go either way.
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          Watch
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          : Performers share their favorite
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          dance-inspired movies
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          .
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             RECIPE
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          In Mexico,
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          barbacoa
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          is a style of slow-cooking large cuts of beef, lamb, goat and pork. The meat is often wrapped in agave or banana leaves and roasted overnight in an underground pit called a pibil. This recipe yields meat just as tender, without the need for a shovel.
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             WHERE IS THIS?
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