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Olle Häggström

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Professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and author of five books including Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (2016). Blogging at Crunch Time for Humanity and Häggström hävdar. LessWrong lurker since 2009, but am now...

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Olle Häggström

Professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and author of five books including Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (2016). Blogging at Crunch Time for Humanity and Häggström hävdar. LessWrong lurker since 2009, but am now...

A friction in my dealings with friends who have not yet bought into the reality of AI risk

(This is a cross-post of my blog post at Crunch Time for Humanity: https://haggstrom.substack.com/p/a-friction-in-my-dealings-with-friends) A few months ago I was invited to a panel discussion whose title (translated from Swedish) was AI: opportunities and fears. I didn’t quite like the ring of this, because it seemed to me that “fears”...

Dec 16, 2025•19

On model weight preservation: Anthropic's new initiative

In the linked text I offer a brief critical discussion of Anthropic's recently announced commitment to preserving the weights of retired models. The apex of the text is the following paragraph. > So let’s now imagine a situation a year or so from now, where Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 (or...

Nov 11, 2025•16