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Agent Harness vs Agent Framework vs MCP: Which Layer Owns the Loop, State, Tools, Permissions, and Recovery30m ago Trump Attacks Anthropic CEO Over Call to Slow AI Development36m ago China Rejects AI ‘Fearmongering’ After Amodei Urges Slowdown38m ago Siri AI Will Have Deep Integration With ChatGPT and Claude Models, Leaked Build Shows49m ago Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world52m ago AI adoption outruns readiness as contact centers chase end-to-end resolution56m ago Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale1h ago Musk, Altman, Hassabis back Amodei’s call to slow pace of AI development1h ago A Reminder From Lina Khan: We Don’t Need New Laws to Prosecute CEOs at AI Companies1h ago The timing of AI leaders' calls for a slowdown is too convenient to ignore1h ago The contagion of fear1h ago AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder says1h ago Reward AI Releases OM-1: A Robot Policy Trained on Human Demonstrations Only, With No Teleoperation or On-Robot Data1h ago AI Agents Will Turn Prompting Into a Management Skill1h ago

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The contagion of fear

Simon Willison's WeblogPublished 1 hour ago

Bryan Cantrill criticizes alarmist claims by some Anthropic researchers that AI could cause human extinction by 2030, urging experts to avoid fearmongering without solid evidence and to responsibly communicate risks.

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