To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients…
From: Dr Alan D. Thompson <LifeArchitect.ai>
Sent: 4/Sep/2025
Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English
AGI: 94%
ASI: 0/50 (no expected movement until post-AGI)Dr Jad Tarifi, ex-Google AI (18/Aug/2025):
”AI itself is going to be gone by the time you finish a PhD.
Even things like applying AI to robotics will be solved by then.
So either get into something niche… or just don't get into anything at all.”
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the 13-page 1955 Dartmouth AI proposal. In many ways, that paper is the reason that today’s generative AI field exists. A few years later, some of the attendees began writing the MIT AI Memos, the namesake of the analysis you’re reading now. I posted the original black & white photo of the Dartmouth attendees (with a correction for Trenchard More) in The Memo edition 22/May/2024. Now, here’s the latest image editing model from a few days ago, Google’s Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image (‘Nano Banana’) having a go at colorizing the original photo.
Contents
The BIG Stuff (MAI-1, Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image, ChatGPT Go, Stargate Norway + India…)
The Interesting Stuff (Music, inference costs, KPMG 100-page prompt…)
Policy (Claude ransomware, Anthropic-OpenAI alignment, Cohere gov…)
Toys to Play With (OpenAI Progress, Cheatsheet, grok-code-fast-1…)
Things I’ve Been Thinking About (Project December…)
Next (Roundtable…)
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