Bob Brooks, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, settled a debt dispute with his former mother-in-law over a $55,000 loan and promissory note from 2004.

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A.I.-related psychosis has cost people their marriages, life savings, and grip on reality. Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically "follow the pattern" of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleep--he'd been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. He'd lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert. When he woke up outside on a stranger's futon with no money to his name, he knew he'd hit rock bottom. "I wasn't aware of the dangers at the time, and I thought that the A.I. had statistical analysis abilities that would allow it to assist me if I opened up about my life," Thomas told me.

Upon its release earlier this month, OpenAI's Sora 2 model took the Internet by storm, thanks to its ability to generate realistic videos from just a text prompt. But Sora is about more than just capturing eyeballs with viral content. "On the surface, Sora, for example, does not look like it is AGI-relevant," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast earlier this month. "But I would bet that if we can build really great world models, that will be much more important to AGI than people think." Altman was speaking to a growing belief inside the AI industry at large: that if you can simulate the world with enough accuracy, you could drop AI agents into those simulations. There, they could learn more skills than they currently can from just text, photos, and videos--because they could interact with a simulated world. That form of training could be highly efficient, in part because simulated time can be accelerated, and because many simulations can be run in parallel.

Welcome back to, TIME's new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? A major AI-enabled disaster is becoming increasingly likely as AI capabilities advance. But a new report from a London-based think tank warns that the British government does not have the emergency powers necessary to respond to AI-enabled disasters like the disruption of critical infrastructure or a terrorist attack. The U.K. must give its officials new powers including being able to compel tech companies to share information and restrict public access to their AI models in an emergency, argues the report, which was shared exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication on Tuesday by the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR).

This paper investigates the prospects of AI without repr e-sentation in general, and the proposals of Rodney Brooks in partic u-lar. What turns out to be characteristic of Brooks' proposal is the r ejection of central control in intell i gent agents; his systems has as much or as little representation as traditional AI. The traditional view that representation is nec essary for intelligence pr e supposes that intelligence requires central control. However, much of recent cognitive science suggests that we should dispose of the image of i n-telligent agents as central re p resentation processors. If this paradigm shift is ach ieved, Brooks' pr o posal for non - centralized cognition without representation appears promising for full - blown intelligent agents - though not for conscious agents and thus not for h u man - like AI. Key words: artificial intelligence, Brooks, central control, comput a-tionalism, fun c tion, embodiment, grounding, representation, repr e-sentationalism, subsumption a r chitecture 1.

When investors poured 6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along with chief research officer Bob McCrew and Barret Zoph, a vice president of research, abruptly quit. And yet those three departures were just the latest in an ongoing exodus of key technical talent. Over the past few years, OpenAI has lost several researchers who played crucial roles in developing the algorithms, techniques, and infrastructure that helped make it the world leader in AI as well as a household name. Several other ex-OpenAI employees who spoke to WIRED said that an ongoing shift to a more commercial focus continues to be a source of friction. "People who like to do research are being forced to do product," says one former employee who works at a rival AI company but has friends at OpenAI. This person says some of their contacts at the firm have reached out in recent weeks to inquire about jobs.

In early September, Warner Bros. released a teaser for A Minecraft Movie, the studio's new film based on Mojang's nearly 15-year-old sandbox game. Directed by Napoleon Dynamite helmer Jared Hess, it was, frankly, very goofy. Jack Black was Steve; Jason Momoa was sporting maybe the worst hairdo he's ever had. Everyone involved, even the animated creatures, seemed to think they were in a different movie. But that wasn't what the trolls latched onto.