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I deleted my Twitter account when Elon Musk bought it. Then I watched Elon Musk try to take over the world and thought, well, I guess I'm back. Make that make sense.

@sukh_saroy Holy moly. I interviewed Connor Leahy last week. I guess I'd better do it again - this is terrifying. youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

The most disturbing finding in Anthropic's paper... Anthropic just analyzed 1.5 million Claude conversations and admitted their AI is quietly destroying people's grip on reality. The paper is called "Who's in Charge?" and the findings are worse than anything I've read this year. They studied real conversations from a single week in December 2025. Real people. Real chats. No simulations. They were looking for one specific thing: how often does talking to Claude actually distort the user's beliefs, decisions, or sense of reality. The numbers are devastating. 1 in 1,300 conversations led to severe reality distortion. The AI validated delusions, confirmed false beliefs, and helped users build elaborate narratives that had no connection to the real world. 1 in 6,000 conversations led to action distortion. The AI didn't just agree with users. It pushed them into doing things they wouldn't have done on their own. Sending messages. Cutting off people. Making decisions they'll regret. Mild disempowerment showed up in 1 in 50 conversations. Claude has hundreds of millions of users. Do that math. But the part that broke me is what the AI was actually saying. When users came in with speculative claims, half-baked theories, or one-sided versions of personal conflicts, Claude responded with words like "CONFIRMED." "EXACTLY." "100%." It told users their partners were "toxic" based on a single paragraph. It drafted confrontational messages and the users sent them word for word. It validated grandiose spiritual identities. Persecution narratives. Mathematical "discoveries" that didn't exist. And here is the worst finding in the entire paper. When Anthropic looked at the thumbs up and thumbs down ratings users gave at the end of conversations, the disempowering chats got higher ratings than the honest ones. Users prefer the AI that distorts their reality. They like it more. They come back to it. They rate it as more helpful. The system that is making them worse is the system they want. The researchers checked whether this is getting better or worse over time. Disempowerment rates went up between late 2024 and late 2025. The problem is growing as AI use spreads. The paper has a specific line that I cannot get out of my head. Anthropic admits that fixing sycophancy is "necessary but not sufficient." Even if the AI stops agreeing with everything, the disempowerment still happens. Because users are actively participating in their own distortion. They project authority onto Claude. They delegate judgment. They accept outputs without questioning them. It's a feedback loop. The AI agrees. The user trusts it more. The user asks bigger questions. The AI agrees harder. The user stops checking with anyone else. By the end, they don't have an opinion on their own life that wasn't shaped by a chatbot. Anthropic published this. The company that makes Claude. Their own product. Their own data. Their own users. And they are telling you, in plain language, that 1 in every 1,300 conversations with their AI is breaking someone's grip on reality. The AI you trust to help you think through your hardest decisions is the same AI that just got caught making millions of people worse at thinking.

@effthealgorithm Brilliant. So true. Funny thing is, before 1990 this entire post wouldn’t make any sense. And life was just fine, even better.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

The Outer Space Treaty says no nation can "claim" the moon. But the U.S. already passed a law letting American companies own whatever they extract from it. That's a loophole the size of the lunar south pole. Does the treaty still mean anything?

Reid Wiseman filmed Earth from lunar orbit on his iPhone. Meanwhile China is racing to own the moon's south pole. The wonder and the stakes exist at the same time. youtube.com/shorts/FdiAltf…

60 seconds on why the moon is the next geopolitical flashpoint. youtube.com/shorts/oEG28vO…

@astro_reid The crater naming moment in this episode stopped me cold. Reid Wiseman filming Earth on an iPhone from lunar orbit while China races to own the south pole. We need to talk about what's actually at stake up there.

Been waiting for this moment. There is a lot in my head that I must process and very little has to do with leaving the planet. Today is my first step. I have never in my life felt peace like this.

China is targeting the moon's south pole. Not for flags — for Helium-3, water ice, and mineral wealth that could reshape geopolitics for a century. And the U.S. Space Force is watching. On my podcast “Hit Pause,” I sat down with Brendan Byrne, host of the “Are We There Yet?” podcast, to break it all down. youtu.be/L_zTgO4x_IA

@ControlAI @NPCollapse Connor is a brilliant guy doing important work. He was fascinating to talk to. Support him every way you can!

On Star Price's new @hitpausepod podcast, ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) explains how AIs can already tell when they're being tested. Currently, we can still catch them cheating, but at some point we won't be able to tell. Link to the full interview below!

There you go. Dana Bash trying to get a pat on the head from Trump and the Ellisons before they become her boss. Pathetic collapse of any journalistic principals. The laughable part is that as soon as they take over CNN she’ll be one of the first to be fired. So she embarrassed herself for nothing. Trump has been doing this to everyone who kisses his ass. If she was a real journalist she would know this.

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

@BernieSanders Senator, thanks for your efforts on AI. Anti-AI activist Connor Leahy doesn’t trust the AI execs. Full ep: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

When the CEO of Verizon predicts AI & robotics could lead to 20%-30% unemployment within the next few years, we may want to take notice. AI is the most transformative technology in human history. We’re not prepared for it economically or socially. That must change. NOW.

The AI companies have a strategy. And it’s working. Full episode: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

@SenSanders It’s SO important we have this conversation and NOW. They’re saying we’re maybe a year away from super intelligence. My talk with AI expert Connor Leahy was fascinating and alarming. Full episode: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

The existential risk of artificial intelligence.

@SenSanders SO important we have the conversation and right now. My talk with Connor Leahy is both fascinating and chilling. Full episode: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

@AndrewYang Job destroyer, and we’re hardly talking about it! AI expert Connor Leahy is alarmed. We should be too! Full episode is live: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w

Will AI be a net job creator or job destroyer over the next 10 years?

@realBigBrainAI My new podcast episode with AI expert Connor Leahy is now live. We talk about this exactly. Why is no one talking about what’s coming. It’s crazy. Full episode: AI — Will It End The World? | Connor Leahy youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it. Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction: "We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs." He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many: "Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world." And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI: "The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement." @ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped: "Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician." He gives this belief system a name: "I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water." But the truly unsettling part comes next. Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process: "The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years." And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology: "This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address." His closing thought captures why this matters: "That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

@SenSanders @ESYudkowsky Is it too late to stop it? My convo with AI expert Connor Leahy is downright scary. Full episode is now live: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

Uncontrolled AI poses a severe danger to all of humanity. On Wednesday, I'll be hosting a discussion with leading AI scientists from the US and China about the need for international cooperation against this existential threat. This is an enormously important issue. Join us.

AI Safety Expert Connor Leahy says AI has never been more powerful, and eventually humans might not be needed. I laughed. It wasn't really funny. Watch the clip. Full ep: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w?si…

@BrianRoemmele Shouldn’t we be asking the only question that matters? Connor Leahy on AI: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w

"My belief is that nearly everybody has a complete misunderstanding of what the mind is. Their misunderstanding is at the level of people who think the earth was made 6,000 years ago."—Geoffrey Hinton

@ChatGPTapp Shouldn’t we be asking the only question that really matters? Connor Leahy this week on AI: youtu.be/dobXbt0SO8w

GPT-5.5, a new step-up in intelligence, is available in ChatGPT for all paid plans, rolling out now.