Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn't they embrace their future?

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DOP 361: When Code Got Cheap, Reviewing Got Expensive

Open source maintainers are rejecting AI-generated PRs. Why code got cheap while review got expensive, and whether banning contributions actually helps.

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Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis

There's new benchmark measuring AI's ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic's frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: "CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis?" The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discover new mathematical cryptanalytic attacks against a series of historical algorithms. Abstract: Cryptanalysis -- the task of finding attacks against cryptographic schemes -- its at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and cybersecurity, two areas where LLMs have advanced fastest.

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