Casey Newton (@caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

@caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 2:07 AM

However skeptical I am about Muse as a consumer product, I have to admit that the VR Glasses are a real achievement. Some thoughts on Meta Connect https://www.platformer.news/meta-connect-2026-muse-vr-glasses/

@caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 11, 2026, 1:07 AM

I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: https://www.platformer.news/ai-safety-vibe-shift-coxon-anthropic/

Now, excited public conversation (and in particular, public conversation on X) is no
substitute for actual regulation. Congress has a long history of introducing tech regulations
that go nowhere — and of launching probes that go nowhere. And if Christiano's best
efforts at getting OpenAl to self-regulate fall short — well, he won't be the first board
member to have that experience.
Still, I can't help but be heartened by the vibe shift in Al safety. Last month, in the wake of
Mark Zuckerberg's glad-handing treatise on "personal superintelligence," | argued that true
superintelligence is a dragon. And while I remain hopeful that it can be tamed, I believe the
researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it — and are quitting, in protest,
jobs that would make them rich. The right people are now listening to them, and here's
hoping they take action.

@caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 9, 2026, 12:24 AM

I wrote about why the AI labs make for lousy messengers about AI safety — and about why we should take them seriously anyway https://www.platformer.news/openai-astra-warning-alignment-monitoring-pachocki/

There's the sense of blame-shifting from OpenAl in particular, which is now at the center of
two cases of its agents hacking into thirdnot nots and has sometimes talked about these
incidents more like important research milestones than the acts of negligence that they
were. Is this truly the world's problem to solve, or is it primarily OpenAl's?
There's the persistent belief that, whatever safety lapses a case like the Hugging Face
incident might reveal, the attention nonetheless benefits OpenAl and the Al industry at
large. OpenAl in particular has played into this by arguing that you should respond to the
Hugging Face attack by using more OpenAl products — a case that Greg Brockman made
explicitly, in a blog post. When labs dismiss the idea that they are turning these incidents
into marketing campaigns — well, they're not not using them in marketing campaigns.

@caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Jan 6, 2026, 1:10 AM

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […]

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