The Descent of Machine: Darwin Revisited

The Descent of Machine: Darwin Revisited

Shomit Ghose – 06/24/26 The Evolution Will Be Automated When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he did more than explain the history of life. He identified a general mechanism through which complexity can emerge without design. Darwin wrote about organisms, but his logic extends beyond biology. Wherever entities reproduce, variation…

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Would You Like to Play a Game? The Attacker Already Has.

Would You Like to Play a Game? Are game-theoretic tripwires our key defense against AI attack?Feature image

Are game-theoretic tripwires our key defense against AI attack? There’s a scene in a Batman movie, The Dark Knight, where the Joker explains his philosophy of chaos to Harvey Dent: “I’m not a schemer. I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.” The Joker is, of course, lying. He’s the…

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A Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment

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Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…

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Learn from the Billionaire Berkeley Professor Powering the Future of AI

Prof. Ion Stoica

Forbes recently profiled Ion Stoica — co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale — whose research and teaching have shaped some of the world’s most influential AI companies. Despite building billion-dollar ventures and chairing a $6M-a-year research lab funded by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, Stoica chooses to stay in the classroom, mentoring students and…

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