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Public story · 2026-03-02 · source-backed
MIT, WashU, and UCLA researchers model the economic transition through two racing cost curves: "Cost to Automate" vs "Cost to Verify." Their central finding: "human verification bandwidth" becomes the binding economic constraint, not intelligence itself. For builders: the paper reframes strategy from capability-building to verification infrastructure. Import AI #447
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Three standout papers from Jack Clark's latest: (1) "Some Simple Economics of AGI" (MIT/WashU/UCLA) models a future where humans shift to verification work, warns of a "Hollow Economy." (2) AI GAMESTORE benchmark: SOTA models achieve under 10% of human baseline on 100 simplifi...
(Jack Clark) — Three essential threads: (1) MIT paper on "Some Simple Economics of AGI" modeling the transition via automation cost vs. verification cost curves, warning of a "hollow economy" of counterfeit utility; (2) AI Gamestore benchmark where frontier models achieve <30%...
Import AI 470 walks through a METR note measuring where LLMs moved the needle (Import AI). Vulnerability reports accelerated across cURL, OpenSSL, Firefox, Microsoft, the US NVD and OSV in 2026 against 2025. Math shows arXiv submissions doubling in some areas plus named result...
OpenAI published "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards" on September 1, declaring Astra the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework (OpenAI). Critical, in their own definition, means the model can find and...
Jack Clark's Import AI #461 covers Sequent, founded on the view that frontier labs' reactive approaches won't keep pace with superintelligence development. Instead of reacting, it plans a portfolio of "differentiated alignment bets." Worth noting for anyone tracking where inde...
Import AI 466 pairs two results: Anthropic showed Opus 4.7 completing a robot task in 9 minutes against 181 minutes with earlier technology, and Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 hit 99.1% ±0.3% success across 785 autonomous laundry-folding attempts spanning 9 garment types in homes it h...
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