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Building the materials foundation for AI

Syensqo's CTO says AI pushes semiconductors and data centers to physical limits, driving advanced materials demand and AI-accelerated materials discovery.

MIT Technology Review's Business Lab podcast, produced in partnership with Syensqo, features CTO Mike Finelli discussing how AI workloads push semiconductors and data centers to physical limits in performance, thermal management, and reliability. Syensqo develops high-voltage data center materials, semiconductor sealing materials, and immersion cooling fluids, while using AI agents to digitally synthesize millions of molecular combinations and predict performance before lab testing. Finelli describes a reinforcing cycle where AI improves materials that in turn enable better AI infrastructure.

MIT Technology Review · AI · 23h agoAI industry1

How Candidates Could Use AI for Good

Schneier and Sanders argue US candidates should use AI for broad listening and voter engagement, citing Japan's Team Mirai and civic tech tools.

Schneier on Security published an essay arguing candidates in the US midterms could use AI constructively rather than only for deepfakes and one-way messaging. It highlights Japan's Team Mirai party, whose AI interviewer has gathered over 300,000 messages across 16,000 interviews and helped the party win 12 Diet seats. Other cited tools include Scotland-funded CrownShy's Comhairle, deliberation.io, MIT's Cortico, Talk to the City, and Remesh. Higher Ground Labs launched a fund targeting AI-native campaign systems.

Schneier on Security · 1h agoAI industry

Flag Game: A Toy Model for Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability

Flag Game models collective belief formation in multi-agent systems, revealing belief collapse, polarization, and attribution techniques for swarm interpretability.

The paper introduces the Flag Game, a toy model where bounded agents observe only private crops of a hidden country flag and exchange beliefs while weighing social evidence. It reproduces non-monotonic performance scaling with population size, collective belief collapse at small populations, and polarization at large ones that drives performance decline. The authors propose social circuit attribution with causal agent-patching interventions, and a statistical-mechanical theory that matches the empirical phase diagram, as first steps toward mechanistic swarm interpretability for collective alignment.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 18h agoAI safety & security