Neil Chilson ⤴️⬆️🆙📈 🚀
@neil_chilson
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Lawyer, computer scientist & author of book 'Getting Out of Control.' Was chief technologist @FTC, now Head of AI Policy at Abundance Institute.
Joined May 2009
My new essay red teams the latest version of California's SB 1047 -- and pulls lessons for future AI legislation.
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I could do with a lot fewer movies about my specific policy area.
They should have made a movie about Superman raising houses prices and undercutting wages for native-born heroes.
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RT @ckoopman: A health revolution is knocking, but only if we answer. Over the next few years, we’ll unlock unprecedented insights into dis….
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Contrary to what you may have heard, being connected to all the world's information has some benefits. From today's @Politico Digital Future Daily on the tragic Texas floods.
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My kids (3 and 6) have started chanting “the 80s, the 80s, the 1980s” and I cannot figure out why.
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RT @castrotech: This week, the Senate removed the 10-year pause on state AI laws from the spending bill. That’s a mistake—and a setback for….
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Great response to claims that somehow European-style regulation will create US competition when it’s utterly failed to create EU competition.
There's so much nonsense in this article, it’s worth a short 🧵to explain. 1/6.
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This is precisely what American AI Dominance means. Our hardware and software used globally.
The United States must not only dominate in the development of frontier AI capabilities, but also must ensure the American AI stack -- from chips, to models, to applications -- is adopted worldwide.
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RT @ckoopman: Last night, the AI provision was removed from the One Big Beautiful Bill. While it isn’t the outcome we wanted, the progress….
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RT @TraceTheLaw: “How can you support a federal AI moratorium? Don’t you believe in federalism?” . I absolutely believe in federalism. Fede….
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The work does continue. But for now I’ve got a pretty good backup plan for the morning:
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Hard fights bring clarity. You see who stands with you when it’s costly, who opposes you with integrity (found a few of those), who plays both sides for show. And who turns the moment the winds shift. I’m grateful for the strong and steadfast allies and the principled.
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Disappointing, but not surprising. Complex systems resist and resist and resist until they suddenly shift into a new pattern. History shows that tech optimists win, but it doesn’t say how. So the work continues.
NEWS: The Senate has removed AI moratorium from the reconciliation bill in a whopping 99-1 vote. Deals a massive blow to the effort to make this happen in the GOP package.
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Zephyr has repeatedly confused @abundanceinst with a (good) book by @DKThomp and @ezraklein and now she’s confusing a federal funding condition with a “ban.”.
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Ah yes let's copy the famously innovative European Union.
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Well let's see how other tech issues are going. Maybe peek at some antitrust. what. the. fuck.
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Americans for Chinese Innovation have decided that Blackburn is now a champion. This morning they thought she was too dumb to understand her own deal.
Thank you to Sen. @MarshaBlackburn for standing up to the 10-year AI law moratorium!!. Tech safeguards are critical for kids, artists and creators, consumers, and Americans across the country. Thank you for being a champion for policy that puts people first!
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