Import AI

Jack Clark's weekly briefing on AI research and policy.

Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to spaceOctober 12, 2026
Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy October 5, 2026
Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loopSeptember 28, 2026
Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics September 21, 2026
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman September 7, 2026
Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI August 31, 2026
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye August 24, 2026
Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimismAugust 17, 2026
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing August 10, 2026
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityAugust 3, 2026
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker July 27, 2026
Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan July 20, 2026
Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computationJuly 6, 2026
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human eraJune 29, 2026
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIJune 22, 2026
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research internsJune 15, 2026
Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racingJune 8, 2026
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systemsJune 1, 2026
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity storyMay 26, 2026
Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment May 18, 2026