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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
TFTC2,346,498 views • 1 month ago
CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”
TFTC216,626 views • 8 days ago
Researchers built software inside Apple Vision Pro that lets people on DMT tag the symbols they see in real time while logging brain scans and location data. If the AI confirms different people see the same symbol in the same spot, it's proof of real encoded information.
TFTC195,079 views • 14 days ago
World, Sam Altman's digital identity project, just unveiled World ID 4.0, what the company calls "full-stack proof of human" infrastructure. The partner list: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, and Vercel. Altman opened by saying we're heading to a world where AI generates more content than humans. Pantera Capital says we've already crossed that threshold. World's answer is an iris-scanning device called the Orb that creates a unique cryptographic ID proving you're a real person. 18 million people across 160 countries have already verified. Tinder is rolling out "verified human" badges in the U.S. after a Japan pilot. Zoom built a feature called "Deep Face" that verifies the person on a video call isn't a deepfake. DocuSign is adding proof-of-human checks to digital signatures. Shopify is enabling verified-human commerce. The most significant announcement is AgentKit, infrastructure that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof they're acting on behalf of a verified human. Okta built an agent delegation system on top of it. The problem World is solving is real. The question is whether a centralized iris-scanning identity layer controlled by the same person whose company helped create the problem is the right answer. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he's selling the ark.
TFTC1,423,440 views • 3 months ago
Bob Lazar: "Iran's not getting nukes." "If I was Iran, I would enrich to 80 or 90%, that's where you can make a weapon, and stop there." "Any physicist has the technology to get nukes. The difficulty is actually making the material." "They're gonna absolutely make a weapon now, because we're kicking their ass. As has been learned, I guess you have to have nuclear weapons now."
TFTC1,570,660 views • 3 months ago
U.S. Bitcoin merchant adoption keeps growing. This is what you should be paying attention to.
TFTC1,339,643 views • 5 months ago
Trump says he's meeting with the top 12-15 AI executives "very shortly" to discuss giving the public a stake in AI. "If we do that, the public will become very rich. That's the kind of money we're talking about. I think they'll do that and I think it'll make it very popular."
TFTC232,640 views • 1 month ago
TFTC 769 w/ Seth For Privacy & Vik Sharɱa - Cake Wallet & Radar Chat 🇺🇸 📡: "Everyone's already sending text, photos, and video through messaging apps. So why not money? We put self-custodial Bitcoin inside Signal & the genie's out of the bottle." We discuss: ⚡ 150M users ⚡ Provably private ⚡ Self-custodial
TFTC61,178 views • 12 days ago
