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What’s that buzzing?
Engrams, k-lines, and the hive-mind route to AGI
Sep 14 • Kenneth Payne
There already is an AI major general
Bad news for colonels everywhere....
Sep 2 • Kenneth Payne
I, Professor
Ghost in the Lecture Theatre
Aug 29 • Kenneth Payne
AI Elegy
"I feel good about it, but not great..."
Aug 14 • Kenneth Payne
Taste the difference
On aesthetics as humanity's last redoubt
Jul 10 • Kenneth Payne
The Fable of the Universal Schelling Machine
My idea takes flight
Jul 7 • Kenneth Payne
Beg, borrow and steal
A British strategy for the post-Mythos world
Jun 26 • Kenneth Payne
The United States of Anthropic
Is the UK heading for AI vassalage?
Jun 15 • Kenneth Payne
AI Armaggeddon? Hold your apocalyptic horses
Deterrence strikes back in our latest experiments
Jun 11 • Kenneth Payne
How much?
The US doubles down on military AI
Jun 1 • Kenneth Payne
Swapping Anthropic for OpenAI at the DoW
A model isn't just a model
May 22 • Kenneth Payne
There's no code red on UK defence AI - there should be
Mythos and my SDR agenda revisited.
May 10 • Kenneth Payne
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