A data-driven picture of our rapidly changing planet - updated through June 2026... Download the graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Peter Stepper
@peterstepper.bsky.social
Molecular biologist for epigenome engineering & aging research in the Bock Lab at CeMM. All opinions are my own. We need to get AI safety right. Science + politics & activism + cats!
We support this petition, signed by our CEO, several co-founders, and senior staff. (1/2)
Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
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New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. (1/2)
Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect. Available now in beta.
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
3 Millionen Datenpunkte untersucht. 2.500 Belege gefunden. 13 Monate geprüft. 1 Ergebnis. Die AfD ist verfassungswidrig. Ein zulässiger Verbotsantrag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht hätte wahrscheinlich Erfolg. Das ist das Ergebnis unseres heute veröffentlichten Gutachtens. 🧵
El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. (1/3)
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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A bunch of European AI policy and engineering guys asked me to help out on this project and it's been fascinating and chilling: what happens to the EU if it doesn't step up on AI (in short, economic collapse and vassalage to the US/China) europe2031.ai long but I hope worth it!
Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.
europe2031.ai
The Guardian view on climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff | Editorial
The Guardian view on climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff | Editorial
Editorial: The Global Justice Report offers a hopeful bargain: tax extreme wealth and replace consumer excess with social and economic security for all
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Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
We, as society, really need to finally start talking about this and its implications - we need to start preparing before AI progress becomes even faster
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention.
Elie Wiesel nannte ihn »Holocaust vor dem Holocaust«, seit 2016 nennt Deutschland ihn Völkermord. Doch der Armenier-Genozid ist noch zu wenig Teil der Erinnerungskultur.
Völkermord an den Armeniern: Dieser Schmerz betrifft uns alle
Elie Wiesel nannte ihn »Holocaust vor dem Holocaust«, seit 2016 nennt Deutschland ihn Völkermord. Doch der Armenier-Genozid ist noch zu wenig Teil der Erinnerungskultur.
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“The world does not lack solutions. But without trust and equity, those solutions will not reach the people who need them most.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoInfectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
Just over twenty eight years ago, on #EarthDay, Apr 22 1998, the #HockeyStick reconstruction of temperatures was born (www.nature.com/articles/33859). Here's an interview I did on CBS EveningNews with John Roberts (anchor Dan Rather): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aVU... 🧵
CBS Evening News Earth Day (April 22) 1998 Michael Mann Nature "Hockey Stick" Report
YouTube video by Michael Mann
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Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
New Anthropic research: Natural Language Autoencoders. Models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. The numbers—called activations—encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read. Here, we train Claude to translate its activations into human-readable text. (1/2)
One of the problems with hayfever (pollen allergy) is that when you yell at plants, people tend to stare and call the police. So I have provided this handy thread of pollen grains under high magnification (electron microscopy) for my fellow-sufferers to channel their rage at.
Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock
Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock
Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger
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The viral myth that made you think your job was safe By the great @80000hours.bsky.social podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lW...
The viral myth that made you think your job was safe
YouTube video by 80,000 Hours
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Die größte Gefahr von #KI liegt in der wachsenden Konzentration von #Macht. Wer KI kontrolliert, kontrolliert Märkte, Informationen und zunehmend auch politische Prozesse. Genau hier entscheidet sich die Zukunft unserer #Demokratie. 🧵 Meine neue Kolumne Die Zeit: www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
Einfluss von KI: Künstliche Intelligenz bedroht die Demokratie, aber anders als gedacht
Die KI-Gefahr droht nicht nur durch Fakes und Jobverlust, sondern durch eine neue Machtökonomie. Es droht ein Kipppunkt für unsere Gesellschaft. Was jetzt geschehen muss.
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Was in diesen Tagen allen klar werden müsste: Atomkraftwerke und fossile Infrastuktur zählen zu den obersten Zielen in einem Krieg. Hunderte dezentrale Kraftwerke für Erneuerbare Energien stärken die Sicherheit. Auszug aus "Die Sicherheitslüge" www.oekom.de/buch/die-sic...
Was uns der Atomstrom von früher immer noch kostet, versteckt im Budget den Umweltministeriums:
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik
Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik
It’s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAE, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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🧬 CAR T cells demonstrate the power of engineered cells as therapeutics. But they fail for most patients. Can CRISPR help here? Our new paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) presents a screening platform to optimize immunotherapies & discover boosters of CAR T cell function. (1/13)
Nach dem Interview mit Klimaforscher @rahmstorf.bsky.social frage ich offen in die Runde: Wann gibt es einen Klimagipfel im Kanzleramt? Wir rasen gerade auf etwas zu, dass die jetzigen Herausforderungen geradezu lächerlich erscheinen lassen.
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre
theguardian.com
Der immerwährende Klimakatastrophen-Zyklus in 10 Phasen. Fazit vorweg: Es gab einmal die Hoffnung, dass wir als Gesellschaft aus Schaden klug werden. Diese Hoffnung ist nach Katastrophen und Wahlergebnissen in mehreren Ländern 2024-2025 naiv. Rückblickend war sie es immer schon... Ein 🧵 1/13