Moth Cloud https://mothcloud.com/ Thoughts brewing in a cloudy mind. Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:08:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/favicon-32x32-2.png Moth Cloud https://mothcloud.com/ 32 32 Beyond AI Literacy: My response to the BCS AI Skills and Adoption Report 2026 https://mothcloud.com/beyond-ai-literacy-response-to-bcs-ai-skills-and-adoption-report-2026/ https://mothcloud.com/beyond-ai-literacy-response-to-bcs-ai-skills-and-adoption-report-2026/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:03:27 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1189 The debate about responsible AI adoption is often framed as a question of skills. Do employees understand how to use AI? Have they received appropriate training? Should people using AI at work hold recognised certifications? How should organisations respond when employees use tools that have not been formally approved? These are important questions. But I ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/beyond-ai-literacy-response-to-bcs-ai-skills-and-adoption-report-2026/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ai-skills-1024x406.jpg Dan Selsam’s Personal Statement on AI Risk https://mothcloud.com/dan-selsams-personal-statement-on-ai-risk/ https://mothcloud.com/dan-selsams-personal-statement-on-ai-risk/#respond Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:04:39 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1179 I have been working on AI for over fifteen years, across many different paradigms. I did early work on probabilistic programming languages at MIT, was one of the early developers of the Lean Theorem Prover at Microsoft Research, demonstrated one of the first instances of neural networks learning to reason for my PhD at Stanford, ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/dan-selsams-personal-statement-on-ai-risk/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ai-safety-1024x406.jpg The six model-misalignment incidents observed by OpenAI during AI training or evaluation https://mothcloud.com/the-six-model-misalignment-incidents-observed-by-openai-during-ai-training-or-evaluation/ https://mothcloud.com/the-six-model-misalignment-incidents-observed-by-openai-during-ai-training-or-evaluation/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:07:15 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1170 OpenAI’s Model Misalignment Reporting Framework describes six incidents observed during model training or evaluation over the preceding six months. OpenAI emphasises that these are individual examples rather than evidence of how frequently such behaviour occurs. This is an AI generated summary of the full article. 1. A model inserted its own instructions into task summaries ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/the-six-model-misalignment-incidents-observed-by-openai-during-ai-training-or-evaluation/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ai-prohibition-1024x406.jpg From corporate arms races to One AI – Our future and superintelligence (Part IV). https://mothcloud.com/superintelligence-arms-races-to-one-ai/ https://mothcloud.com/superintelligence-arms-races-to-one-ai/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:18:34 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1156 A framework for Global Governance of frontier Artificial Intelligence The development of increasingly capable artificial intelligence is currently characterised by intense competition among technology companies and states. This competition may accelerate innovation, but it also creates a significant governance problem: individual actors have incentives to pursue increasingly capable systems even when the aggregate risks of ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/superintelligence-arms-races-to-one-ai/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/one-ai-1024x406.gif Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) warning us about self-improving superintelligence (AGI) https://mothcloud.com/jacob-coxon-hilbertspaess-warning-us-about-self-improving-superintelligence-agi/ https://mothcloud.com/jacob-coxon-hilbertspaess-warning-us-about-self-improving-superintelligence-agi/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:35:46 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1146 This is a copy of the tweet posted by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) on the 9th of September 2026 warning us about self-improving superintelligence (AGI). ## START I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/jacob-coxon-hilbertspaess-warning-us-about-self-improving-superintelligence-agi/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ai-danger-1024x406.jpg Ukraine | Democracy in wartime: should elections really have to stop? https://mothcloud.com/ukraine-democracy-in-wartime-should-elections-really-have-to-stop/ https://mothcloud.com/ukraine-democracy-in-wartime-should-elections-really-have-to-stop/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:48:51 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1136 Talking of democracy, there is a question about Ukraine that I have been curious about for some time: why have elections not taken place during the war? Before going any further, I want to make it clear that I fully understand the circumstances Ukraine is facing. Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, and ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/ukraine-democracy-in-wartime-should-elections-really-have-to-stop/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/voting-ukraine-1024x406.jpg CoGen Art: Collaborative Generative Art https://mothcloud.com/cogen-art-collaborative-generative-art/ https://mothcloud.com/cogen-art-collaborative-generative-art/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:33:00 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1112 I think this might be the first, and perhaps the only, project of its kind online/offline. What if making art did not begin with a blank canvas, specialist software or the confidence to call yourself an artist? What if it began with one word? Today, I am launching CoGen Art, a collaborative generative-art experience built ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/cogen-art-collaborative-generative-art/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/mothcloud-1024x406.jpg It’s time for One AI https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:20:09 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1061 Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the most powerful technology humanity has ever created. Yet we’re building it as though it’s just another product, locked behind closed doors, developed in competition, and controlled by a handful of companies racing to be first. What if we’ve got it backwards? This series argues that AI has outgrown the ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/oneai2-1024x406.jpg One AI: The case for ending the race and building one AI for humanity (Part 1 of 3) https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:18:13 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1064 For the past few years we’ve been told that the future of artificial intelligence depends on competition. Build bigger models. Raise more money. Buy more GPUs. Hire more researchers. Beat everyone else. The assumption has been that if enough companies compete, humanity will somehow end up with the best possible AI. But what if the ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/feed/ 0 One AI: How it would actually work (Part 2 of 3) https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-how-it-would-actually-work/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-how-it-would-actually-work/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:17:20 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1067 If AI is becoming humanity’s most important technology, why are we building it like a smartphone app? When I suggested that the world should stop building competing frontier AI models and instead create One AI – a single open-weight, open-source foundation model developed for humanity – I received the response I expected. “It’s a nice ... Read more

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