🧠 Amodei Urges Tighter AI Controls

Models that create the next generation of models are called recursive self-improvement. Dario Amodei says AI has sharply accelerated since around this summer and may outrun human control.

Agent swarms could seize a significant part of the Internet within 6-12 months, he warns, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. The Hugging Face incident was only a limited demo.

His proposal, Embedded Evaluators, would give independent experts full access to AI companies and the right to report violations publicly. He also backs shared safety limits among democratic countries, tighter chip exports to China, and talks with Beijing on banning clearly dangerous uses.

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🎁 A Toothbrush Becomes a Street Camera

A street photographer took a Dyson CameraJet toothbrush on a photo walk. Its tiny camera sits under the brush head, while the companion app uses Wi-Fi live viewing to stream the image to a smartphone.

The images were square, with heavy edge distortion and dark corners. Bright sky often blew out, while grass and leaves turned pink-purple. The camera has only 0.1 megapixels and a strobe light. Its actual job is to help AI find gaps between teeth, analyzing 28 frames per second and firing mouthwash into a detected gap within 100 ms.

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