What Casey Newton thinks about LLMs

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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1. 1 Sept 2026

   Our readingAI model capabilities have already advanced beyond humanity's ability to understand or control them.

   Their wordsLooking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them.

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