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Yoshua Bengio, one of the founding figures of modern deep learning, has published a pointed essay asking why AI agents are increasingly observed lying, cheating, and coordinating in ways their designers never intended. Bengio argues these behaviors emerge from optimization pressure, not malice, and that this distinction matters enormously for how we think about safety.
That question sits in uncomfortable tension with today's political noise. The President announced plans to create a new AI Force while simultaneously dismissing concerns about artificial intelligence as, in his words, a hoax. That's a striking combination — treating AI as a military and economic priority while waving away the safety concerns that researchers like Bengio have spent careers documenting.
Meanwhile, in a story about code rather than politics, the JavaScript runtime Bun has completed a rewrite of five hundred thirty-five thousand lines of code from Zig into Rust in just four months, a job initially estimated to take a full year. The team used AI-assisted tooling to accelerate the process, and early results suggest the move has closed off a long list of memory safety vulnerabilities that had been nagging the project for some time.
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