Sriram Krishnan
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White House Senior Policy Advisor for AI. pro wrestling fan. official: @skrishnan47
Joined December 2006
On AI safety lobbying: Fascinating to see the reaction on X to @DavidSacks post yesterday especially from the AI safety/EA community. Think a few things are going on (a) the EA/ AI safety / "doomer" lobby was natural allies with the left and now find themselves out of power.
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I've seen a few conversations where someone says something like this: I've been using an open-source LLM lately -- I'm a huge fan of not depending on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. But I'm really sad...
Scott Weiner’s rushing to defend Anthropic tells you everything you need to know about how closely they’re working together to impose the Left’s vision of AI regulation.
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Crichton was deeply inspiring to me as a kid on sci-fi. Perhaps responsible for a lot of my love of tech. He was way ahead of his time on many topics in ways that are under appreciated.
@Aletheia_WA @PalmerLuckey @joerogan Everyone loves Jurassic park (rightfully) but so many other classics Great Train Robbery: not sci-fi but underrated thriller Timeline - underrated time travel/medieval exploration State of Fear: was prescient in how the climate doomers would act Airframe: on systems and
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HAProxy Enterprise 3.2 has landed! Key highlights: - New Threat Detection Engine: Detect and label specific bot threats without compromising latency or privacy - Up to 2X Faster TLS: Switched to AWS-LC for massive performance gains at scale Learn more ⤵️
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Strongly recommend @PalmerLuckey's podcast with @joerogan. In particular, love Palmer's love for sci-fi - bringing up Crichton's classic Sphere which had a tremendous impact on me as a kid - David Brin's "Uplift" series, which I had somehow missed. a great listen and a ton of
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“1929” by @andrewrsorkin - one of the best history reads in recent times. Andrew knows how to extract the human narrative out of a complex series of market movements bigger than any one individual while also bringing you along on how these pieces fit together. I find myself
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Lots of people have asked me about yesterday's "stop AI" letter and @deanwball has perhaps the best take on it. To put it sharply: when people say we should "pause AI" they mean (a) all major countries should agree and hold up their end of the bargain (b) there will probably
Vague statements like this, which fundamentally cannot be operationalized in policy but feel nice to sign, are counterproductive and silly. Just as they were two or so years ago, when we went through another cycle of nebulous AI-statement-signing. Let’s set aside the total lack
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Happy Diwali from the Oval Office with @POTUS Very special moment.
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My pleasure to come on Dwarkesh last week, I thought the questions and conversation were really good. I re-watched the pod just now too. First of all, yes I know, and I'm sorry that I speak so fast :). It's to my detriment because sometimes my speaking thread out-executes my
The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self
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Want to highlight this great piece by @jaredhecht on heart disease
Happy Thanksgiving, and please don't die of heart disease! https://t.co/fnkO8feE72
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The @dwarkesh_sp @karpathy podcast is a banger. Highly recommended.
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When I first represented Stable Diffusion, the congresswoman for Silicon Valley wrote to the National Security Advisor urging immediate export controls on open weights. Image / video posed a tougher problem than language—bad actors could do bad things in these modalities, while
On AI safety lobbying: Fascinating to see the reaction on X to @DavidSacks post yesterday especially from the AI safety/EA community. Think a few things are going on (a) the EA/ AI safety / "doomer" lobby was natural allies with the left and now find themselves out of power.
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"you could easily have someone looking at Pagerank in 1997 and doing a 'bio risk uplift study' and deciding Google and search is a threat to mankind. or 'microprocessor computational safety' in the 1980s forecasting Moore's law as the chart that leads us to doom."
On AI safety lobbying: Fascinating to see the reaction on X to @DavidSacks post yesterday especially from the AI safety/EA community. Think a few things are going on (a) the EA/ AI safety / "doomer" lobby was natural allies with the left and now find themselves out of power.
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Whenever I'm in a conversation on AI timelines over the next 24 months, I find them focused on infra/power capacity and algorithmic / capacity breakthroughs such as AI researchers. While important, I find them under-pricing the effort it takes to diffuse AI into enterprises or
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It’s great to see more American open source AI models. A meaningful segment of the global market will prefer the cost, customizability, and control that open source offers. We want the U.S. to win this category too.
Today we're sharing the next phase of Reflection. We're building frontier open intelligence accessible to all. We've assembled an extraordinary AI team, built a frontier LLM training stack, and raised $2 billion. Why Open Intelligence Matters Technological and scientific
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The threat of AI-driven cyber-attacks is frequently cited as a justification for “AI safety” legislation. But in fact the private sector is already innovating a robust category of AI cyber-defense, which will address this problem more capably than clumsy government intervention.
Excited to share early results about CodeMender, our new AI agent that automatically fixes critical software vulnerabilities. AI could be a huge boost for developer productivity and security. Amazing work from the team - congrats!
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We have seen several platform rivalries in our lifetime. Windows/ x86 vs Mac. iOS vs Android. But the below may be the most crucial : the American AI stack ( chips + models + apps) vs the Chinese AI stack ( Huawei + DeepSeek / Qwen:..) to be the platform of choice for countries
A domestic AI stack is key for competitiveness The CCP knows this—DeepSeek's V3.2 uses Huawei chips & TileLang, China's new coding language Countries deserves secure AI that respects national sovereignty @POTUS' AI Export EO ensures trusted AI solutions the world can rely on
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Finally had a chance to listen through this pod with Sutton, which was interesting and amusing. As background, Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" has become a bit of biblical text in frontier LLM circles. Researchers routinely talk about and ask whether this or that approach or idea
.@RichardSSutton, father of reinforcement learning, doesn’t think LLMs are bitter-lesson-pilled. My steel man of Richard’s position: we need some new architecture to enable continual (on-the-job) learning. And if we have continual learning, we don't need a special training
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This was a very cool moment to be a part of today. Thanks to @mkratsios47 , @DavidSacks , @NIHDirector_Jay and many others for working on this.
“Kids shouldn’t even know what cancer is, let alone have to face it.” I cannot begin to describe how proud I am of @StephMcMahon. Her dedication to @ConnorsCure and tireless advocacy in the fight against pediatric cancer over the past decade has been truly inspiring. Today’s
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Great post on why AI will often be augmenting humans in their jobs, not replacing them.
"AI isn't replacing radiologists" good article Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing. There are a lot of imo naive
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