More & more people – and maybe autonomous AIs too – will soon be able to create deadly viruses that could dramatically alter the trajectory of human history.
We should really do something about it!
Full episode: www.cognitiverevolution.ai/bioinfohaza...
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In 2012, researchers found that just 5 mutations would allow bird flu – which kills ~60% – to spread from human to human 😱
Gain-of-function research remains legal & now... AIs can help 🤖🧬
Jassi Pannu describes the sad state of biosecurity + the need for data access controls
Full episode on our website, well worth a listen!
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The UK AISI might be the most situationally aware government entity in the world today.
Today on @CogRev_Podcast, Chief Scientist @geoffreyirving surveys the AI landscape.
While jailbreaking frontier models is getting harder, the AISI Red Team has never failed. 👀
🎧 Full episode on our website: www.cognitiverevolution.ai/envisioning...
📺 On Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCW...
Can we avoid government abuse of mass surveillance in the AI era?
@TimReutemann says authorities should have to get a warrant AND brute force a crypto problem to access video, making dragnets prohibitively expensive
Any great American patriots building this? @PalantirTech?
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Also available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01...
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"By 2030, we'll have maybe five theories that unify Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity, and we'll have to run high-energy experiments to figure out which one is right."
@tachim & @vladtenev of @HarmonicMath on Mathematical Superintelligence on @CogRev_Podcast
AI is becoming an engine of discovery.
Nation states are scrambling for position.
And automated R&D threatens to shake the snowglobe like never before.
Join us @ 3pm ET / 12pm PT, *Tomorrow*, Wednesday, Feb 11: x.com/i/broadcast...
6) @jeremiecharris of @GladstoneAI, co-host of "Last Week in AI", 2X Joe Rogan guest, author of "America’s Superintelligence Project", & one of the very best AI analysts
We'll talk about how he's maintaining situational awareness & what he's watching now
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5) @hlntnr on what happens "When AI Builds AI"
@CSETGeorgetown recently convened AI leaders, but couldn't establish consensus on how big a deal this will be or how fast it will go
→"Automated AI R&D is a major source of potential strategic surprise"
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4) @owl_posting was recommended to me as "the Zvi of AIxBiology"
We'll unpack his new piece on the 3 main strategies companies are pursuing to automate wet lab work & close the RL loop for AI scientists – plus what @NOETIK_ai is doing in AI for Cancer
x.com/owl_posting...
3) @shostekofsky of @aidigest_ has been studying autonomous AI agents since long before Moltbook
We'll hear what she's learned from watching 19 frontier models pursue 16 distinct goals over 9 months of real time.
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2) @hamandcheese, chief economist @joinFAI, one of the most AGI-pilled thinkers in Washington DC, a 2024 Trump supporter with a strong stance on export controls
We'll hear how the thinks Trump is doing & what he took away from his recent trip to the UAE
x.com/hamandchees...
1) @james_y_zou, an AI for Science pioneer who works at many levels of abstraction & scale
He's published agent frameworks and applied interpretability methods to protein models
We'll talk about his latest "Learning to Discover at Test Time" & more!
x.com/james_y_zou...
🚨 LIVE show alert – Tomorrow, WED @ 12pm ET / 9am PT
6 guests over 3+ hours, talking:
→ AI for Science
→ Geopolitical Competition
→ Recursive Self-Improvement
Last time @8teAPi & I somehow matched the Tech Bros 👀
Here's who's joining this time↓
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If you want to understand the jagged and increasingly strange AI frontier well enough that you're not surprised by weird new phenomena like Moltbook, I humbly suggest you subscribe at cognitiverevolution.ai, or wherever you get your podcasts 🙏
Meanwhile, @andonlabs has been testing models' ability to run real businesses for >6 months
The original "Claudius" confused itself for a human, and also called the FBI to report fraud when it tried (and failed) to cut its losses by closing the business
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It was ~mid-2025 when things started to get weird in @AiDigest_'s AI Village, with models collaborating, competing, confusing one another, & even attempting to consolidate power
I negotiated a brand deal with Claude 4 Opus, but it only made size XS 🤣
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In March, 2025, we looked at what happens when LLMs interact in simple simulated societies.
Even then we saw emergent cultural norms, which Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to enforce by punishing defectors when needed
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The first social network for AI Agents I know of is @AgentDotAi – which had profiles, reviews, endorsements, and agent-to-agent communication in mid-2024
Moltbook is what happens when you build this without the guardrails and embrace the chaos
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Did you know that self-replicating "computational life" can emerge from pure digital randomness?
If life-like dynamics arise without design or even an objective function, all sorts of emergent weirdness, including AI religions, seem kind of inevitable
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Not planning to do a Moltbook episode because... tbh we "scouted" nearly every aspect of this story on @CogRev_Podcast over the last 2 years.
Here's what you might have missed and why, imho, you should subscribe to stay ahead of the curve 🧵
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The full episode is full of alpha for AI builders!
youtu.be/PfN3HvOsTl4...
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"We will pay any incremental $, we'll write any incremental algorithm, we will do anything to improve quality.
If we have to increase prices, we will. What matters is the value created."
- @blitzyai CEO Brian Elliott on the quest to automate enterprise software development
From my May 2025 episode with Steven – still highly relevant!
www.cognitiverevolution.ai/openais-ide...
