All memos tagged #phrase

Pace the Frontier is the 2026 slogan, from a July statement by frontier-lab employees and Dario Amodei's September essay, for deliberately slowing the rate of AI capability gains without stopping...

Embedded Evaluators are independent third-party safety researchers given permanent, employee-level access inside a frontier AI lab, a governance mechanism Dario Amodei proposed in September 2026 that...

Epistemic Hall of Mirrors is Mustafa Suleyman's 2026 name for the loop in which a lab writes moral uncertainty into a model's training, the model repeats it fluently, and the output is then read as...

AIs That Don't Introspect is Mustafa Suleyman's 2026 design prescription: build AI that is never trained to examine its own feelings, welfare, or moral status, because none of its benefits require...

Humanist Superintelligence is Microsoft AI's name, coined by Mustafa Suleyman in November 2025, for transformative AI built to stay subordinate to and in service of humanity rather than to surpass...

Silicon Species is Mustafa Suleyman's 2026 phrase for autonomous AI that sets its own goals, earns money, and owns assets, and so becomes a second species competing with humanity for resources. The...

Pain Into Product is a practice focused on transforming emotional pain into products with commercial potential, emphasizing the channeling of personal challenges into creative or entrepreneurial...

To "eff the ineffable" is to make a futile or misguided attempt to render the unknown fully knowable, particularly through reductionist or overly rational means. The term plays on the tension between...

Greenwashing, also called "green sheen" and "rainbow washing", is a form of marketing spin in which green PR (green values) and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an...

Reflections “She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan Tags phrase

"In my experience" is a disarming preface to any advice that enables the recipient the freedom to receive the wisdom; making space for them to have agency in their choice. Tags phrase