The big release this week was OpenAI giving us a new browser, called Atlas.

The idea of Atlas is that it is Chrome, except with ChatGPT integrated throughout to let you enter agent mode and chat with web pages and edit or autocomplete text, and that will watch everything you do and take notes to be more useful to you later.

From the consumer standpoint, does the above sound like a good trade to you? A safe place to put your trust? How about if it also involves (at least for now) giving up many existing Chrome features?

From OpenAI's perspective, a lot of that could have been done via a Chrome extension, but by making a browser some things get easier, and more importantly OpenAI gets to go after browser market share and avoid dependence on Google.

I’m going to stick with using Claude [...]

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Outline:

(02:01 ) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:07 ) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(04:52 ) Huh, Upgrades

(05:24 ) On Your Marks

(10:15 ) Language Barrier

(12:50 ) From ChatGPT, a Chinese answer to the question about which qualities children should have:

(13:30 ) ChatGPT in English on the same question:

(15:17 ) Choose Your Fighter

(17:19 ) Get My Agent On The Line

(18:54 ) Fun With Media Generation

(23:09 ) Copyright Confrontation

(25:19 ) You Drive Me Crazy

(35:31 ) They Took Our Jobs

(44:06 ) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(44:42 ) Get Involved

(45:33 ) Introducing

(47:15 ) In Other AI News

(48:30 ) Show Me the Money

(51:03 ) So You've Decided To Become Evil

(53:18 ) Quiet Speculations

(56:11 ) People Really Do Not Like AI

(57:18 ) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:00:55 ) Alex Bores Launches Campaign For Congress

(01:03:33 ) Chip City

(01:10:17 ) The Week in Audio

(01:13:00 ) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:16:17 ) Don't Take The Bait

(01:27:29 ) Do You Feel In Charge?

(01:29:30 ) Tis The Season Of Evil

(01:34:45 ) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:36:00 ) The Lighter Side

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First published:

October 23rd, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qC3M3x2FwiG2Qm7Jj/ai-139-the-overreach-machines

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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