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“AI #119: Goodbye AISI?” by Zvi

117 min • 6 juni 2025

AISI is being rebranded highly non-confusingly as CAISI. Is it the end of AISI and a huge disaster, or a tactical renaming to calm certain people down? Hard to tell. It could go either way. Sometimes you need to target the people who call things ‘big beautiful bill,’ and hey, the bill in question is indeed big. It contains multitudes.

The AI world also contains multitudes. We got Cursor 1.0, time to get coding.

On a personal note, this was the week of LessOnline, which was predictably great. I am sad that I could not stay longer, but as we all know, duty calls. Back to the grind.

Table of Contents

  1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. The white whale.
  2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. You need a system prompt.
  3. Language Models Could Offer More Mundane Utility. A good set of asks.
    4. [...]

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Outline:

(00:54) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:00) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(08:04) Language Models Could Offer More Mundane Utility

(12:13) Huh, Upgrades

(16:20) Fun With Media Generation

(22:07) Choose Your Fighter

(30:14) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(31:41) Get My Agent On The Line

(35:51) They Took Our Jobs

(48:41) The Art of the Jailbreak

(51:15) Unprompted Attention

(59:14) Get Involved

(59:39) Introducing

(01:01:18) In Other AI News

(01:04:04) Show Me the Money

(01:07:57) Quiet Speculations

(01:14:10) Taking Off

(01:15:47) Goodbye AISI?

(01:21:27) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:29:50) Copyright Confrontation

(01:32:56) Differential Access

(01:35:37) The Week in Audio

(01:36:17) When David Sacks Says 'Win the AI Race' He Literally Means Market Share

(01:37:50) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:41:44) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:45:49) Misaligned!

(01:52:41) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:54:16) The Lighter Side

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
June 5th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D3BjqZ26ouk7ctfRC/ai-119-goodbye-aisi

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Images from the article:

Process flowchart showing six phases of cybersecurity differential access implementation.
Poll showing four options: agree (47.8%), disagree (17.4%), neutral (13%), results (21.7%)
ChatGPT conversation showing a question about evidence and philosophical response.
ChatGPT interface showing book edition list with Folio Classique and Pléiade.
Graph showing model capability levels versus defender maturity across security schemes.
GPT model comparison chart showing recommended uses and alternatives like Claude-4.
Poll results showing three options: mostly agree (68.1%), mostly disagree (20.9%), results (11%).
Interface showing different ChatGPT models with their recommended use cases.
Educational illustration showing three AI model types with different ratings and specialties. The Fast Generalist (4.0): Depicted by a running figure The Researcher (0.3): Shown with books and computer The Creative (4.5): Illustrated with quill and scroll
This image is a humorous meme combining a scientific research paper about predicting AI outcomes with a cereal-eating stick figure comic. The top panel shows text about AI automation lacking
ChatGPT tweets:
Gary Marcus tweets:
Will Brown tweets:
This appears to be a film still or artistic recreation rather than a historical photograph of the described 13th century interfaith dialogue. The image shows an ornate palace or temple setting with elaborate architecture, columns, and a large circular gathering space. People in colorful robes and religious garments - orange, pink, and other bright colors - are seated in a circle around what appears to be a ceremonial area. The scene captures a formal gathering with beautiful lighting streaming in through the architectural elements. The style and production quality suggests this is from a movie or dramatic representation rather than historical documentation of the actual Mongol Empire event described in the text. The text describes a fascinating historical interfaith dialogue that took place in the Mongol Empire during the mid-13th century, bringing together Christian, Muslim and Buddhist leaders. According to the caption, the meeting resulted in an interesting display of different religious expressions - Christian singing, Islamic chanting, and Buddhist silent contemplation.
Gordon Mohr tweets:
Yellow warning triangle with black exclamation mark.
White yin-yang symbol on purple background
Scales of justice icon in orange and gray colors.
Emoji showing confused or uncertain expression with shrugging shoulders, wearing blue

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