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Derek Thompson

What Derek Thompson thinks about LLMs

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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025.

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  1. Our readingAI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.

    hiringAI writing

    Their wordsArtificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."

    ↗Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AIderekthompson.org 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  3. Our readingFrontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating.

    AnthropicOpenAIcybersecurity

    Their wordsAn analysis by the AI Security Institute found that the capabilities of frontier models (i.e., from OpenAI and Anthropic) are roughly doubling every few months, and this doubling rate has actually gotten faster over time.

    ↗How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypsederekthompson.org 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingBy 2027, open-weight AI models more powerful than today's frontier systems will be downloadable by any country or well-resourced non-state group.

    HuggingFace

    Their wordsBy 2027, almost every country-and every non-state group with sufficient computing power-will have the ability to download open-weight models even more powerful than the ones that attacked Hugging Face and use them for whatever they like.

    ↗How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypsederekthompson.org 3rd of 3 in this piece