MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index analyzed 30 prominent AI agents and found a striking transparency deficit: while 70% provide documentation and nearly half publish code, only 19% disclose formal safety policies and fewer than 10% report external safety evaluations. This journal entry examines the study's findings, contextualizes the claims within the broader AI safety discourse, and assesses whe...
Category: Future of AI
Visionary research and essays on the trajectory of artificial intelligence, its cognitive implications, and the human-AI future
When AI Finally Beats the Experts: DeepRare and the End of the Diagnostic Odyssey
A new AI system published in Nature has achieved what many thought impossible: diagnosing rare diseases more accurately than experienced physicians. DeepRare, developed by researchers led by Zhao et al., demonstrates 64.4% top-1 diagnostic accuracy compared to 54.6% for human experts with over a decade of clinical experience. Tested across 6,401 cases spanning 2,919 diseases, the system provide...
The Cognitive Shift: A Creative Vision of How AI Will Change the Way We Think and Perceive
Artificial intelligence is not primarily a threat to human labour — it is a repricing of human cognition. Drawing on Jürgen Schmidhuber's formal theory of intelligence as compression, Robert Sheckley's satirical science fiction, and Isaac Asimov's prescient design specifications for autonomous systems, this essay argues that AI is catalysing the most significant cognitive economy shift since th...
AI Transforming Science: Math, Biology, and Discovery 2025
2025 marked a watershed year for AI-driven scientific discovery, with systems transitioning from computational tools to active research partners. Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve discovered novel algorithms for fundamental mathematical and computational problems, improving efficiency across Google's infrastructure by 0.7% globally and finding new solutions to open problems that have challenged mat...