Brad Carson
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Father of Jack, husband of Julie. Ex Congress, DoD, @BattenUVa, President @utulsa. Prez of @americans4ri. An enthusiast, but w/ a gimlet eye on the log x-axis.
Joined April 2009
"In a mindless age, every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon." - M. McLuhan to E. Pound, letter, 1951.
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In all of the (mis)uses of AI, stats like the 17.8% below are among the most noxious to me.
Caleb Williams reached a top speed of 20.29 mph on his 9-yard scramble TD run, the fastest speed of his career and 10th-fastest by a QB since the start of last season. Williams had just a 17.8% probability of scoring a TD when he took off to run at the 16. Powered by @awscloud
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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Really interesting. One implication is that general anti-AI sentiment is causing an overreaction (closing off the internet). Just an example, IMO, why AI is vulnerable. There is a lot of latent opposition, awaiting a galvanizing moment. This is not necessarily a good thing.
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Listening to audio books is not reading. It can be delightful and informative, yet it can never offer the same depth of experience that reading provides.
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“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.” - Anne Sexton
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"WE'RE BACK!" Secretary of War @PeteHegseth: "This name change is not just about renaming, it's about restoring...restoring the warrior ethos, restoring victory & clarity as an end state, restoring intentionality to the use of force...The @DeptofWar is going to fight
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Anthropic is endorsing SB 53, California Sen. @Scott_Wiener ‘s bill requiring transparency of frontier AI companies. We have long said we would prefer a federal standard. But in the absence of that this creates a solid blueprint for AI governance that cannot be ignored.
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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.
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The misleading headline aside, this is absolutely worth the read. My big takeaways: 1) Pentagon has first order questions to answer on AI adoption; 2) every level of NC3 should be restricted from AI integration. Both items need immediate action. https://t.co/DQlTpf3PAF
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The Pentagon is racing to integrate AI into its weapons system to keep up with China and Russia. Where will that lead?
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Very interesting interview (with much to like and much to disagree with, as it should be)! Congrats @JohnathanBi for leading these.
The real risk of AI isn’t extinction, it's being turned into NPCs, into mindless sheep. Silicon valley has been so caught up with X-Risk, e/acc, Effective Altruism - extremes of either optimism/pessimism - that they’ve missed this. One of my friends uses ChatGPT for hours
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At the National Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley delivered a stark warning about how artificial intelligence is reshaping society in ways that empower Silicon Valley elites at the expense of everyday people.
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Meta is failing to enforce its policies to protect children from AI chatbots. @bstein80 joined @NewsNation to share his thoughts.
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ARI is hiring! Apply to join our team as our Legal Policy Counsel. Help ARI expand its work with legal advocacy and analysis, and outreach to legal practitioners and the judicial branch. Apply here: https://t.co/ABG0Jv79Cc
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I asked GPT-5 how it imagines an ASI to be like. What it said blew my mind. 🤯 An ASI would be less like a person and more like a planet waking up. Imagine every book ever written, every discovery ever made, every dream ever dreamed—compressed into a single consciousness that
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It's coming. More and more reports about the coming unemployment are being published. "The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity today released Impact of AI on Workers in the United States, a groundbreaking analysis revealing that artificial intelligence is on track to disrupt roughly
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Good thread here to understand what's happening in DC.
1/ Fascinating drama playing out over the past 24 hours as the very good GAIN AI Act from @SenatorBanks comes under fire from @nvidia, which seems happy to shred its credibility for the sake of getting more AI chips into China. 🧵
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Melania Trump's remarks: - AI not science fiction (see surgical robots, autonomous vehicles) - AI will be the single largest growth category - Responsible stewardship. AI is at a "primitive stage" and must be treated like a child — empowered, but with "watchful guidance."
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What a great anecdote!
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On a logarithmic scale, we’re actually closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length. This is wild.
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I appreciate @jeffrsebo sending me to his site where I've had the chance to read a lot of his voluminous (and excellent) scholarship. Also finished up the paper on AI welfare he contributed to (also good!). One thing I like about this work, along w that of @birchlse is its
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Proud to partner with @americans4ri on this timely report on AI and labor policy. Join us Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C. to learn more about key findings and policy takeaways: https://t.co/j4wPPzWkiG
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Date & Time: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 11:00am - 1:00pm Location: Keough School Washington Office 1400 16th St NW, Suite 120 Washington, DC 20036 In partnership with Americans for Responsible...
TODAY: ARI and @KeoughGlobalND are co-releasing a new report exploring workforce policies that can be used to respond to AI's jobs impact. Inside AI Policy's @CharlieReports has the full story: https://t.co/CRf7w5cBwD
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