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Archives for May 2026

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Polling firm Gallup is starting to look into “the potential of simulated responses.”

It’s partnering with an AI company called Simile and is “independently validating” the company’s method. “Our goal is to learn whether AI systems and emerging methods can help deepen, not replace, our understanding of how humans think and behave,” according to Gallup. Gallup also notes that its goal isn’t to use the methodology to substitute “for work that requires the rigor of probability-based sampling.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Claude can now plug into a bunch of legal tools.

As the AI adoption in the legal field ramps up, Anthropic has announced that its AI chatbot can now connect to many of the apps used by lawyers, including DocuSign, Box, Thomson Reuters, Harvey, and more. “Claude reviews contracts, surfaces case law, and drafts across the tools your team already uses,” according to Anthropic.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
About 200 people work on safety at OpenAI.

Kolter laid out OpenAI’s different safety groups: the safety systems team, which works on guardrails and evaluations; the preparedness team, which deals with OpenAI’s preparedness framework; the alignment team, which helps train models on ways that “align with human values”; the model policy team, which develops the model spec; and other teams focusing on investigations. When speaking about the controversial dissolution of OpenAI’s superalignment team and AGI readiness team, he said some of that research is being done by other teams.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
The chair of OpenAI’s safety and security committee said they’ve formally delayed its model releases.

Dr. Jeremy “Zico” Kolter said that so far, there have been two times when the committee “formally requested a delay of models.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Irritatingly, no one has asked him why he’s called “Zico.”

Anyway, he’s a member of the nonprofit board of the OpenAI foundation, but not the for-profit. He’s a safety expert.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Altman steps down. We are now hearing from Jeremy “Zico” Kolter.

He’s a Carnegie Mellon prof who focuses on safety and security.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We’re on redirect with Savitt and we’re looking at the “bait and switch” texts.

Altman said — and evidence in the direct showed — that Altman had made sure Musk knew about Microsoft. “I would often have to remind Musk of things, but this one I assumed we had talked about enough times that he would remember,” Altman says. Of Musk’s attitude toward OpenAI, he says, “we were kind of left for dead.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Microsoft establishes that OpenAI has other investors...

And that Musk hasn’t sued any of them. Softbank’s investment is bigger — so is Nvidia’s and so is Amazon’s. That’s all from Microsoft.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We see the Musk “bait and switch” texts again.

In response, Altman texted, “I agree this feels bad — we offered you equity when we established the cap profit, which you didn’t want at the time but we are still very happy to do any time you like.” Molo tries to ask if this is a bribe — if Altman is trying to say that if Musk lets him get away with stealing from a charity, he’ll split the loot. Savitt objects, YGR sustains.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
What if we had a drinking game for this trial?

Granted we’d all be dead as a result because who can keep up with this but... Drink every time:

  • Someone says “Dota” or “Dota 2”
  • “I don’t recall”
  • “I disagree with that characterization”
  • “Stole a charity”
  • “Was Microsoft there?”
  • YGR snaps at someone
  • YGR says something nice to the jury
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Musk says, “This is a bait and switch” in a October 2022 text chain.

Molo says, isn’t he saying you stole a charity? Altman looks confused. “No?”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Molo is not doing especially impressive lawyering here.

It’s funny that he’s on the team alleging money overrode ethics, because, well, I guess it takes one to know one? Throughout the case, we’ve seen a number of own goals from the Musk team. This morning, when the Musk team was requesting to ask questions about safety concerns with AI, YGR snapped, “What else do you think you want to do? Because you do not want to be held in contempt I guarantee you.” She’s tough with lawyers as a general rule, but woof.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Molo asked Altman if he’d ever fire himself as CEO of the OpenAI for-profit.

“I have no current plans to do so,” Altman replied, adding, “I’ve never thought about it before.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
“The blip” again.

Y’all I am so sick of this. We are literally litigating a week in 2023.