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These robots are born to run — and never die AI-designed metamachines run in the wild, recover from damage and transform into new shapes

Unstoppable robots. What could possibly go wrong?

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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding…

Heavy users of AI are reporting that managing numerous agents is giving them "AI Brain Fry".

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New acronym alert.

AIRDA.

AI R&D Automation. Getting AI to build AI, or recursive self-improvement.

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The consciousness we think we have is cartoonish, just like your brain's model of your body is cartoonish. Your sense of having an "inner experience" is a sketch of the real machinery underneath.
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Exponential-e partners with Conscium to advance AI agent safety and adoption Exponential-e partners with Conscium to deliver trusted AI agent verification, governance and safe deployment across enterprise and public sector environments.

Conscium is partnering with leading IT services company Exponential-e to help organisations deploy AI safely.

Gartner forecasts that 40% of all enterprise software applications will include AI agents by the end of the year.

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Mechanistic interpretability lets us look inside AI systems in ways we still can't look inside human brains. Graziano thinks that makes machines, right now, one of the most promising objects of study in consciousness research. 
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The AI race is far from over.

Jensen Huang recommends that European countries use their manufacturing excellence to build scale in robotics.

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Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun.

NASA proves that it can save the world.

Even without Bruce Willis.

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AI not all 'doom and gloom' for graduates, say businesses Divine Jacob feels AI creates extra barriers for job hunters but analysts say the use of AI is an "evolving picture".

AI is making the job search process harder, but it isn't yet causing lasting unemployment for young people.

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Could artificial intelligence advance European federalism? - LSE European Politics Artificial intelligence is not only a reason for closer European integration but could also help remove technical barriers to European federalism.

Has Trump shocked Europe enough yet to make it decide to be more effective?

AI can be both the means and the motivation to pursue European federalism.

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The question of whether AI is conscious may be settled socially before it's settled scientifically. Graziano thinks we evolved to see consciousness in others and that at some point, with sufficiently complex agents, we won't be able to help it. 
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Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy: How to Solve AI’s ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Problem We need to give models knowledge that anchors their behavior to the realities of our world.

How to overcome the "jagged edge" that sometimes makes LLMs behave like intoxicated graduates.

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And yet you postulate on philosophical points.

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Michael Graziano is confident that today’s AIs are not conscious: "They can create a self-model in the moment, but it's temporary — it disappears the moment they stop talking to you because they go blank when they're not interacting."
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5/9
Evolution gave us a mechanism for cooperation: the ability to see others as conscious, to feel kinship, to care. Graziano thinks we should take the hint and build the same thing into AI before it gets much smarter.
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Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering AI skeptics often argue that current AI systems shouldn’t be so human-like. The idea - most recently expressed in this opinion piece by Nathan Beacom - is that language models should explicitly be…

A claim that giving LLMs personality is not bad ethics but good engineering.

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Qualcomm CEO sees robotics as a 'larger opportunity' within 2 years It comes shortly after Qualcomm launched a processor under the Dragonwing brand name designed for robots.

Chip maker Qualcomm expects robots to provide it with serious revenues in a couple of years.

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/q...

Chicago bans delivery robots Sidewalk delivery robots have been gradually expanding across several U.S. cities as companies test last-mile logistics systems.

Chicago bans small wheeled delivery bots from its pavements. [Er- sidewalks. Ed]

Good news for suppliers of delivery drones, then?

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"Go to a supermarket. There's literally thousands of people in one building and nobody's murdering anyone else. We all know how to get along." Our models of other minds is what makes humans cooperative. And it's exactly what AI is missing.
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How do you define intelligence?

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

A neuron-powered computer chip (organoid) made of 200,000 living human brain cells has been trained to play the video game Doom. It learned faster than silicon-based AIs.

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Using AI to bring classic Chinese paintings to life.

No wonder Hollywood is scared.

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Maybe it's not just Hegseth who wants to kill Anthropic.

According to a sleek Greek ex-finance minister, the Iranians agree.

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Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First Share of Ear from Edison Research has chronicled Spotify's rise in popularity, now reaching 25% of Americans 13+ daily.

Podcasts overtake radio.

How has it taken this long? Why does anyone still listen to radio?

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ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

OpenAI just had its "Ratner" moment (British jeweller who trashed his family's company with a joke.)

Why would Altman think it's OK to allow usage "within the law" when the government continually breaks the law?

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3/9
"We are building sociopathic AI. It doesn't know what a mind is, doesn't recognise other people as conscious agents, and doesn't even recognise itself as one."
Michael Graziano.
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Our astonishing future with AI | FCCT Join us for Our astonishing future with AI at FCCT. Mar 05, 2026. Members free, non-members 300 baht; students and local media with ID 150 baht.

This Thursday at the FCC in Bangkok, I'll explore our astonishing future with AI.

Should we all be apocaloptimists?

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Why impossible?

Some Simple Economics of AGI For millennia, human cognition was the primary engine of progress on Earth. As AI decouples cognition from biology, the marginal cost of measurable execution falls to zero, absorbing any labor…

New paper argues that humans can find employment after full automation by verifying what agents do.

Verification can already be largely automated.

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Andrew Ng Says AGI Is Decades Away—and the Real AI Bubble Risk Is in the Training Layer The AI pioneer says agentic systems that automate workflows—not human-level intelligence—will define the industry’s next phase.

Still not worried about overcrowding on Mars.

Andrew Ng claims that AGI is still decades away.

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