Food and nearly everything else that is bought and sold must travel from where it is produced to the buyer. Transportation costs are rising sharply. Oil prices have surged by approximately 45% and gas by 55% since late February, a direct consequence of the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
Distributors and their supply chain managers have been up against inflation and rising...
With AI capabilities rapidly increasing, humans appear close to developing AI systems that are better than human experts across all domains. This raises a series of questions about how the world will—and should—respond. In the research paper AI Governance to Avoid Extinction: The Strategic Landscape and Actionable Research Questions, originally published in May 2025, MIRI’s […]
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View the official memo here. China has consistently signaled a willingness to engage on global AI governance since at least 2017. This memo compiles key statements from the Chinese government and prominent figures demonstrating their desire to coordinate on the problem of AI. Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, at the 2025 World Economic Forum, said: […]
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The AI Doc is now streaming on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and YouTube TV. So you’ve just seen The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and you suddenly have questions, lots of them. The 104-minute documentary (currently in theaters and on major streaming platforms) takes viewers on a fast-paced tour through the many […]
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The AI Doc: Buy tickets and spread the word! On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now. The movie is excellent, and we generally believe it belongs in the same tier as If Anyone Builds It, Everyone […]
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If world leaders agree to halt or limit AI development, they will need to verify that other nations are keeping their commitments. To this end, it helps to know where AI chips are, how they’re used, and what the AIs trained on them can do. In this post, we informally summarize “Mechanisms to Verify International […]
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This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their named authors, and do not claim to speak for all of MIRI. Before the machine learning revolution kicked AI into overdrive, I worked in reliability engineering and risk assessment at ExxonMobil. In my efforts to […]
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Developers use Claude Code as an enhanced autocomplete system. They open a file, type a prompt, and hope for the best. The system produces decent output which sometimes reaches great quality. The output exhibits inconsistent results. The system loses track of context and repeats its initial errors. The solution needs a more organized project, not […]
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Imagine asking your AI model, “What’s the weather in Tokyo right now?” and instead of hallucinating an answer, it calls your actual Python function, fetches live data, and responds correctly. That’s how empowering the tool call functions in the Gemma 4 from Google are. A truly exciting addition to open-weight AI: this function calling is […]
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Legacy financial systems often trap organizations in "data swamps" where AI is mistakenly treated as a magic fix for fundamentally broken manual architectures. In this episode, Juan Orlandini, CTO of North America at Insight, outlines why senior executives must distinguish between statistical AI outputs and the mathematical precision required for financial compliance to avoid significant...