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Andreas Kirsch
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👨🔬 RS DeepMind
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👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster theatlantic.com
UTAW: Trust is not Governance utaw.tech
AI Workers techworkersinquiry.org
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AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power forethought.org
Trust is not Governance blackhc.net
Trust is not Governance blackhc.net
AI Workers go.utaw.tech
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Bayesian Model Selection & Scaling Laws blackhc.net
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A serious essay by me with many personal thoughts: utaw.tech/news/trust-i... It's on us as Google DeepMind employees to demand real governance, and our union's (@utaw.tech) recognition push is the most realistic path to get there before it's too late
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Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai
Read the whole thing. One of the clearest AI governance papers in a while; the authors propose concrete rules, not vibes. By Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden & Rose Hadshar @forethought_org: Cards drafted with Claude, reviewed by me. www.forethought.org/research/ai...
Sadly, trusting voluntary commitments is not enough. DeepMind’s bids for greater independence within Google failed. Earlier safeguards were weakened or dismantled. I explained all that in an essay called "Trust is not Governance" www.blackhc.net/essays/trus...
As published by @utaw.tech: utaw.tech/news/trust-... The full essay, with all sources and easier to read citations, is here: www.blackhc.net/essays/trus... Speaking in my personal capacity as a UTAW member, not on behalf of Google or DeepMind.
Andreas Kirsch reposted
Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai
“Best model” is incomplete until we say which part of learning (and deployment) we value Full post: the exact identity, the flip-order result, the regimes behind crossings, and the toy experiment and an interactive panel www.blackhc.net/blog/2026/m...
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I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
I left Google DeepMind at the end of last week. I loved the research, especially the IMO project last year and working with so many exceptionally talented people on Gemini. Thank you to everyone I worked with, esp my managers and teammates. I have learnt so much from you all! 🫶
Another happy read that we should ponder and reflect on: Forethought's "AI-Enabled Coups". It's a careful, refreshingly unhysterical paper on how a small group (or literally one person) could use advanced AI to seize a state. Ofc: in personal capacity, not on behalf of Google
The Atlantic @TheAtlantic says generative AI is "an engineering disaster." I had Claude fact-check all 23 checkable claims against primary sources: 7 check out · 7 need context · 9 don't hold Verdict: the economics hold up. The computer science doesn't (I checked it too) 🧵
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