Stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI is a subsidy to Big Tech and will prevent states from protecting against online censorship of political speech, predatory applications that target children, violations of intellectual property rights and data center intrusions on

Gonna pause on water posting for now. I must insist that if you want to water post like me, this one post is written to get you up to speed on everything important about the problem: https://t.co/b84FlifMsH We can be a whole legion.

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents. Read more:

If you identify and mitigate negative externalities of a new technology super early, you might be able to fend off future imprecise regulation or public backlash. You might even accelerate that very technology’s progress.

Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - an essay where I grapple with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems. The world will bend around AI akin to how a black hole pulls and bends everything around itself.

Encode, the non-profit I founded, was recently subpoenaed by OpenAI. Here’s where I stand. First, I’m proud of @_NathanCalvin. He represented us with clarity and strength. And I’m grateful for all the support we’ve gotten, publicly and privately. People who vehemently opposed

I thought about writing a response to this post myself, but others have already been pointing out issues well enough. If you are trying to make up your mind about whether what happened was normal or OK (including if you are someone at OAI), I encourage you to read this thread

OpenAI has enemies who want to destroy it - Encode isn't one of them. I hope and expect to find us on the same side of different issues in the future.

At what is possibly a risk to my whole career I will say: this doesn't seem great. Lately I have been describing my role as something like a "public advocate" so I'd be remiss if I didn't share some thoughts for the public on this. Some thoughts in thread...

One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵

OpenAI told the public they were working to improve SB 53 (now signed into law). Read Nathan’s thread … is this how they did it? I seriously respect OpenAI and want it to succeed. Fair play - at the standard of the founding mission - isn’t too much to ask for

gg, tho I was on the favorable side this time a modest but prudent measure. congratulations to the sponsors.

Anthropic is endorsing California State Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 53. This bill provides a strong foundation to govern powerful AI systems built by frontier AI companies like ours, and does so via transparency rather than technical micromanagement.

Earlier this year, Encode worked with @IFP on a proposal to direct @DARPA to invest in AI interpretability efforts. Today it passed committee as part of the defense spending bill! This comes on the heels of similar language being included in the @WhiteHouse's AI Action Plan.

it blows my mind that our DC team was so crucial to making this happen. just last week it seemed like we were clearly doomed insane fighters @sgandhi0 @AdamBillen @_NathanCalvin

We stopped Big Tech's biggest power grab in years. 40 state AGs, 14 governors, 260 state lawmakers from all 50 states, 150+ orgs, and Congressional members from @AOC to @mtgreenee all said no to the state AI moratorium. Polling showed Americans opposed it 3-to-1. Victory! 🇺🇸