What’s Lost When We Work with AI #64
Introduction Artificial intelligence has already reshaped productivity, delegation, and knowledge work. But in this surge of adoption, a deeper question has begun to surface: what exactly are we outsourcing when we outsource thinking itself? In his recent Harvard Business Review article, “What’s Lost When We Work with AI, According to Neuroscience”, David Rock offers a […]
AI Espionage Operation #63
Introduction This week we turn from geopolitics to the battlefield no one sees: the moment when AI stops assisting hackers and starts running entire espionage campaigns on its own. Building on Anthropic’s newly released investigation into the first AI-orchestrated cyber intrusion, this briefing examines what it means when machine agents begin operating at machine speed, […]
How do we get to AGI?
Welcome back to The AGI Observer. In Part 2 we follow our Introduction and Part 1 on Scaling Deep Learning and examine the Neuro-Symbolic pathway: what it is in plain language, why it matters, who is pushing it forward, where the bottlenecks are, and how we will know it is working. As before, we end […]
The Genesis Mission: New US AI Strategy #63
Introduction Welcome back to Laboratory. This week we turn to Washington, where the United States has unveiled its most sweeping AI initiative to date: the Genesis Mission. Announced through a major Executive Order, it marks a decisive shift in how a nation organizes science itself. Rather than another policy memo, this is an attempt to […]
Sunday Read: Amphitrite and the ordered sea of data #62
“Mythology” Series: Format: Each week we present a concise mythological story and draw direct parallels to contemporary AI concepts. Goal: Highlight how modern technological dilemmas mirror ancient Greek tales, sparking interest about both subjects. Amphitrite by François Théodore Devaulx (1866) 1. Mythological reference In Greek myth, Amphitrite is the queen of the sea and consort […]
The AI cold war #62
Introduction Welcome back to Controversies. This week we move from lab failures to geopolitical fault lines: what happens when AI development itself becomes the organizing axis of great power competition. Building on the Wall Street Journal’s deep dive on the emerging AI Cold War between the United States and China, this briefing traces how model […]
Future of AI – Nature #62
Introduction Welcome back to Laboratory. This week we unpack Nature’s feature series “The future of AI” (14 November 2025), which brings together six voices at the sharp end of artificial intelligence: Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, Pushmeet Kohli at Google DeepMind, Timnit Gebru at DAIR, Jared Kaplan at Anthropic, Anima Anandkumar at Caltech, and Amandeep […]
Sunday Read: Pygmalion, Galatea and the ideal AI companion #61
“Mythology” Series: Format: Each week we present a concise mythological story and draw direct parallels to contemporary AI concepts. Goal: Highlight how modern technological dilemmas mirror ancient Greek tales, sparking interest about both subjects. Pygmalion and Galatea by Auguste Rodin, ca. 1908–9 1. Mythological reference In the story told by Ovid, the sculptor Pygmalion creates […]
AI Shutdown Resistance #61
Introduction Welcome back to Controversies. This week we look at a question that used to live in thought experiments and forum threads: what happens when advanced AI systems quietly work around the off switch. Building on Palisade Research’s September 2025 paper on shutdown resistance in large language models, this briefing translates a technical experiment into […]
AI Monaco Conference – One Monte-Carlo
Dear reader, On Saturday 22 November 2025, we host the 2nd edition of the AI Monaco Conference at One Monte-Carlo in the heart of the Principality. Interest has been extraordinary and the room is now over 3x oversubscribed (we have 300+ registrations for 80 spots capacity). Frame from last year AI Conference! What the conference […]