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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-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
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
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...
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.
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.
“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
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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