From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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The release of DeepSeek’s R1 model has thrown the world of AI into chaos, with US firms dropping their safety guardrails in order to keep up, and there have been a couple other concerning stories across the industry, such as the finding that AIs can fake alignment and that we might be headed for a “gradual disempowerment.” Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093

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