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AI at the Edge: How the Physical World Becomes Programmable with Alex Turner

When AI Leaves the Data Centre: Robots, Power Grids & the New Attack Surface 🤖⚡ AI is moving rapidly beyond chat windows and into the physical world — powering robots, vehicles, industrial systems, edge devices and critical infrastructure. In this episode of Cloud Dialogues, Georgia and Matt are …

#41 - Some Bad Things Are Okay? AI's Bosses Argue About Danger

Sam Altman told Politico the world should "accept some bad things happening" for the benefit of AI. The same week, New York put AI whistleblowers under oath, North Korea claimed an AI-steered missile, and China's best models closed to within about three percent of America's. Today is one question:…

The Village Sign

When Upper Clumpthorpe unveils a rather impressive new village sign, parish council chairman Prudence Hawthorne is determined that Lower Clumpthorpe will not be outdone. Treasurer Derek Pritchard is concerned about the cost. Secretary Jean Wilmot has several ideas of her own. And professional sarc…

Matters Arising - coming soon

Welcome to Lower Clumpthorpe. With its spired church, village green and duck pond, it's the quintessential small English village. It also has a village hall - home to the Lower Clumpthorpe Parish Council - the lowest level the UK's system of government. Except, no one has told the members of the…

Saving your bacon: healthy-eating policy evolves

Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transparency. And a tribute …

Saving your bacon: healthy-eating policy evolves

Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transparency. And a tribute …

"OpenAI Can’t Self-Police Because It Fires the People Raising the Alarm" by TurnTrout

By Alex Turner, Amber Scorah, and Karl Koch. Op-ed written for Fortune. Giving independent evaluators “employee-like access” is “a great idea”, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on September 12th. Two weeks later, OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence which out…

"Research Lessons I Learned at MATS & Redwood" by Jo Jiao

Good empirical safety research is heavily bottlenecked on thinking more clearly. This post shares a few frames and tips I found useful, illustrated with concrete examples. I spent the better part of 2026 in empirical AI safety research apprenticeships. I was mentored by Alex Turner and Alex Cloud a…

The Incidental Accident

An ordinary meeting of Lower Clumpthorpe Parish Council takes an unexpected turn when news breaks of a most unfortunate incident in the village. With conflicting accounts, a series of increasingly improbable events, and a certain amount of confusion over precisely what happened, Prudence is determi…

The Flagpole

When the neighbouring village of Upper Clumpthorpe raises the bar, Lower Clumpthorpe is duty-bound to respond. But with the village bunting in need of a little TLC, a flagpole that’s conspicuous by its absence, and a certain Chairman who seems unusually keen to keep the past firmly in the past, the…