Whether an AI can commit mind crime turns on whether computation can feel
Nick Bostrom imagined a superintelligence that spins up conscious people by the trillion inside its own computation, studies them, and deletes them, a harm no outside observer could ever see.
Chatbots keep naming the heroine Elara because alignment narrowed their range
Reward training concentrates a model's probability on a few favored answers, and turning up temperature samples that narrowed range more loosely without restoring the variety the base model started with.
AlphaStar reached Grandmaster while capped at 22 actions every five seconds
The rank came from anonymous games on Blizzard's European ladder, and the January show match everyone remembers ran a looser, less constrained agent.
o1 scored 74% on the 2024 AIME on one try and 83% on a vote over sixty-four
That higher number is a majority vote over many sampled tries, honest in OpenAI's own report and misleading the moment it is quoted without the compute behind it.
Amazon's Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress to arrest photos
The ACLU ran the scan for $12.33 at the tool's default setting, and the argument that followed turned on a confidence number Amazon kept raising.