AI #187: Coming Into Play

Opus 5.5 was released on Tuesday. I covered the system card yesterday, and will cover its capabilities soon. By all reports it is an excellent model. There are lots of fun videos going around that Opus has generated, which I will include as part of that. OpenAI released a new cheaper and improved Sol and Luna. No one is talking about them due to Opus 5.5, but these should be an important upgrade under the hood. Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have formally introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. That means we get to read (RTFB) it. As always, I reserve judgment on particular bills until I can read them in detail. MIRI did so, and endorses the bill as directly confronting the extinction threat. I hope to do an RTFB soon. I have spun two things off the weekly: Coverage of the quest for the right embedded evaluators and related questions and attacks, which will become its own post. Some issues related to cooperative alignment, which may get folded into the model welfare post.…