The 'steroid olympics' and Anthropic's safer Mythos

At a $50 million arena built in a Las Vegas casino parking lot, the inaugural Enhanced Games staged a libertarian thought experiment: athletes were encouraged to take performance-enhancing drugs. Proponents presented the event as a glimpse of a future where medical advances push humans to new heights and eliminate aging, while the spectacle left open the question of whether that vision is desirable or realistic.

A narrated piece offers a reality check on the growing hysteria about AI and jobs. Analysis of US labor data finds little evidence that the technology has caused large-scale labor-market disruption: unemployment in occupations most exposed to AI is lower than in less-exposed jobs, and there are no signs of mass shifts from AI-threatened white-collar roles into supposedly safer manual work.

The conclusion: the job market has problems, but they cannot be blamed on AI alone. Anthropic has released a "safe" version of Mythos, saying it includes guardrails and user limits.

United States, Las Vegas

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