I don’t know if open weight models are deaccelarationist but if they are, that’s not necessarily a bad thing!
@Tyler_Menzer Also these "coding agents" can do much more than coding.
Much wrong here including "An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now." Students at all institutions need to use AI to expand their mind rather than replace it, but they certainly need to use it! t.co/Vx6Lsh2Kbv
Regarding regulating open weight models, my opinion is: 1. I'm opposed to cybersecurity motivated restrictions on open weight models since these restrictions will only impact defenders. 2. I'm opposed to economically motivated such restrictions since government intervention will reduce competition and choice for customers. 3. OpenAI makes great models and products. We don't need or want any regulatory capture,
I am proud that OpenAI published gpt oss, and am generally a fan of open weights models. I am not an extremist in either direction though. There is a safety advantage in having defenders have access to stronger cyber models earlier. x.com/teortaxesTex/s…
I get this reaction too and it is unfortunate. AI's impact is so significant that it is important to involve many people in the conversation, and it will be a shame if discussions happen mostly in private channels and company slack. Of course, people should take into account the affiliations of Dean and I and other lab employees. I am sure we are influenced by the environment we are in. But OpenAI does not tell us what to write. On many of the topics I write about there is no "OpenAI consensus." On each such question, there will often be many colleagues and friends at OpenAI that disagree with me, which is great! I would be worried if we all agreed with one another since it could be symptom of "groupthink."
"I think this is a pretty bad self-goal. America's dominance over the years has relied in part on being a tech innovation powerhouse, which is enabled by attracting top talent. Gambling our tech dominance is a national security risk." x.com/minilek/status…
I'v found sending messages between threads super useful. I might have a long running thread, then start some investigation in another thread. Then I tell it then when it's done with its investigation, it should write a markdown report and let the long running thread know x.com/jxnlco/status/…
This paper arose out of a project from the AI safety class CS 2881r! x.com/ElyHahami/stat…
My first attempt at a twitter article.. if you prefer the blog form, see windowsontheory.org/2026/07/16/all… x.com/boazbaraktcs/s…
Congrats to TML and to the community for a new open weight model! x.com/thinkymachines…
Once again deep learning is hitting a wall. x.com/petergostev/st…
Can see the point, though I have some affection for o3. The first hardworking model. You could take a photo of a random corner of the room and ask it to geolocate and it would just not stop trying to get it. x.com/repligate/stat…
I'm not a fan of much of "model welfare" talk re current models. But I think it's not good to be performatively cruel toward any entity that shares some qualities with humans. x.com/livgorton/stat…
Agree that AGI should be about empowering and centering humans, not about minimizing their agency. It's OK and expected that the nature of work will change, as it has in other transitions. But we should ensure AGI diffuses power rather than concentrates it. x.com/DAcemogluMIT/s…
I live in MA so don't know much about Khanna but this is an example of what I wrote here that you can't hide something from AI by "burying it under a mountain of documents." windowsontheory.org/2026/07/13/its… x.com/kane/status/20…
Wrote a blog post on the different ways in which the AGI transition could go wrong. Like the famous Anna Karenina quote, there are many different ways to fail, and interventions that help in one scenario could hurt in another. windowsontheory.org/2026/07/13/its…
Happy to join more than 200 economists and AI researchers in signing this statement on the urgency of acting now to understand and prepare for the economic impacts of AI. wemustactnow.ai
Published "homework zero" for CS 2881r. If you are or know a Harvard/MIT student interested in taking AI safety, please take a look. boazbk.github.io/mltheorysemina…
Sorry for not providing the excitement of the weekly "will it be extended" drama. x.com/reach_vb/statu…
My daughter is the typical teenager who does research for fun and handwrites her research notes in Shavian. I asked both 5.6 and Fable to decode her notes and both thought it was mirror image Hebrew and tried to decipher it based on that assumption. x.com/goodside/statu…
To be fair 5.6 did make more (wrong) guesses than Fable.
Reminds me of James Mickens' tenure announcement: "I want to thank all of the enemies that I had to destroy to achieve this great honor" mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announc… x.com/jayvanbavel/st…
Bittersweet to leave @jamcoders after a week with brilliant students and dedicated TAs, but excited for the material they will learn next from @timnitGebru @minilek , and @orrrrp.
I don't agree with everything in AI 2040 "Plan A" but it is very thoughtful. One element I love: push for increased transparency and diffusion. Instead of safety meaning locked down information and restrict frontier models only to labs, government, and chosen partners, a key component in their plan is to maximize sharing information and distribution.
I remember when the field started, it was agreed that if models start thinking they are potatoes then further AI work would be immediately halted by companies and governments. x.com/cajundiscordia…
I thought I'd read this article but I think I'll skip since all the main points are summarized in the tweet. x.com/DKThomp/status…
This is a cool video x.com/OpenAI/status/…
I don't have direct knowledge - my own experiences with Fable are very limited (and always ended with the classifier..). But this description makes Sol sound like the more aligned model.. x.com/mitchellh/stat…
This video has a very different vibe with sound on x.com/VoidStateKate/…
While I am an "AI lab folk" I do agree that there are great opportunities to contribute also in the nonprofit and government sectors. x.com/geoffreyirving…
Happy to teach in @jamcoders 2026! Last time I lectured we got interrupted by Hurricane Beryl so 🤞 for smooth week this time focusing on algorithms and coding. x.com/jamcoders/stat…
Trans people need all the allies they can get. Nothing these extremists have done ever helped Palestinians, but they’ve done all they can to fracture coalitions here in the U.S. x.com/decadimitry/st…
Beautiful piece in @NoemaMag by @Houda_nait "in my grandmother’s world, intelligence mattered less than presence... What the phones cannot do is sit. They cannot stay. They cannot make nashat, that joy that rose when people showed up." noemamag.com/how-ai-will-ch…
LLMs have been enhanced with “neurosymbolic techniques” (aka tools) since at least WebGPT in 2021.
“Hmmm wait a second, this doesn’t seem quite appropriate for an AI assistant to be saying.” x.com/__ghostfail/st…
There is a growing amount of discussion and interactions between OpenAI researchers and gov affairs. I agree such communication is important. x.com/peterwildeford…
GPT 5.5 is SOTA in the critical "Know who Boaz Barak is" eval.
Presented without comment. x.com/Polymarket/sta…
Daughter: Dad, I got interested in codex Me: Yes! Finally! Daughter: A Gothic language codex
These are the poor life outcomes of the gifted kids in the study in question. x.com/NYMag/status/2…
Recently, the AAUP has become the Jim Cramer of wisdom on academic matters. While it's not a perfect strategy, there are far worse things than listening to their advice and doing the opposite. x.com/AAUP_UChicago/…
Good take by Dean. While trying to block competition is generally bad, couching it in safety makes it far worse. x.com/deanwball/stat…
I want to build AI models that serve humanity. Behaving according to good character ("soul" if you want to use fancy words) is an important component for this. But what's even more important is human checks and balances and oversight of AI using AI.
I hope AI companies can agree on "AI neutrality" where AI models do not have a preference toward their makers. For example, I love that currently ChatGPT and Claude are happy to help you move over to the competitor's product.
This is very bad. Detractors of AI safety often say it is an excuse to avoid competition, and these kind of moves give such detractors ammunition. x.com/natolambert/st…
Glad Anthropic released Mythos/Fable! Seems like a great model - congratulations! x.com/boazbaraktcs/s…
That is an interesting vector, where the safety mechanisms are themselves used to fight against defense. x.com/banteg/status/…
I still hand prompt codex like god intended. x.com/steipete/statu…
I feel about Graham Platner & Maine similarly to how I felt about Anthropic collaborating with Elon. If I was living in Maine I might vote for him in a race against Collins, but I wouldn't be happy about it. x.com/matthewstoller…
Proud to have co-signed this letter. Bio capabilities of AI systems, including foreign and open source ones, are fast advancing. We can't assume that bad actors will not have access to such capabilities and need to ensure information is not the only bottleneck. x.com/AlecStapp/stat…
@nsdjoe And also another meaning (like "meteoric rise")
I agree! As I wrote in my op ed, "Whether your degree is in English or Computer Science, you should be using not just ChatGPT, but also Claude Code, Codex, and products from cool startups I haven’t heard of." x.com/ahall_research…
Am happy with this document, and in particular the emphasis on strengthening and centering CAISI. x.com/OpenAINewsroom…
