Chris Paxton

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

only slightly behind schedule for the plot of accelerando then

The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload The Singularity has belonged exclusively to artificial minds, until now.

I did not realize that emulation was this far ahead. The previous iteration was able to do very simple behavior like extending and retraction a tongue based on smell, but now they have an uploaded fly brain capable of controlling a simulated fly. Won't be too long until lobsters at this rate

Anti-drone drone launcher

I have been thinking for a while about what AI coding agents mean for robotics. Will AI assisted design and better simulation change the rules and mean that scaling a single form factor doesn't make sense?

open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...

Correct

Robots for package delivery are kind of a big deal. An old post of mine on hyperlogistics:
splittinginfinity.substack.com/p/delivering...

The Case for a Robotic Cambrian Explosion What might AI software engineering tools change about the robotics thesis?

A thought experiment; will simulation + ai assisted cad + cross-embodiment learning make humanoid robots obsolete? open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...

Interactive world models; live demo of controllable neural simulation: www.yixuanwang.me/interactive_...

Kids hate homework in the same way they hate vegetables*

* no firsthand evidence of this, my daughter loves vegetables almost to a fault

Education results have gotten worse during a period of time when we’ve decided to try less hard to teach kids

Cool to see the new Rivr robot. They were prototyping based off of Swiss mile dogs before, much more similar to the Unitree dogs we have seen so much of. But now they have custom hardware which seems to make much more sense for package delivery.

It's laying an egg!

What arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873

Other things you can try for this feeling: the grand canyon, parenthood, elden ring, claude opus 4.6

Not a long list

Maybe we should stop calling it vibecoding and call it what it is.

Natural language programming.

This is genuinely a 'ai will not steal your job' kind of result. all of the jobs rated highly vulnerable to automation are also the ones most capable of defending themselves socially and economically.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

people.com/trump-says-i...

At the risk of repeating myself, they don't actually care about Americans any more than Iranians, they don't think of us as people they have an obligation to. We're just chaff to be ground up as they scheme to get richer and seize power and kill their enemies. Like peasants to tsars.

We need to talk about consciousness Defining consciousness, whether or not AIs have it, and why we should talk about this

Re-reading my old post on my definition of consciousness and getting increasingly concerned cpaxton.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Being a true believer is, weirdly enough, often good for business (at least in the internet age)

I have no doubt that dario is a True Believer and genuinely took that stand for the sake of genuine conviction

but also, you have to imagine him somewhere looking at whatever dashboard they have for this stuff and smirking at least a little with this outcome

how?

Imagine getting soft dunked on by your coding agent

Might An LLM Be Conscious: A Short Skeetfest

tldr: it depends on what you mean by "conscious", whether you think that's even possible, what you think you'd test for. some of this is pedantic and some of it is just weird

Look i know ai is "not sentient" but like, if you went back in time to the 90s and told someone about this, they would tell you you had a sentient robot inside your computer

Vertical farms are another of those solarpunk technologies that have the potential to radically change the world for the better. but only viable with power too cheap to meter.

It feels like the tone has shifted on Bluesky

1. Fewer weird discoveries about language models

2. The antis don't have the steam they used to

3. People are just grinding out projects

Almost like there's cognitive debt because people are building stuff and also don't have time for the antis

imo ai bluesy is a real thing with a distinct character now