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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.
Well, even AI skeptics have to admit that this is a whole new level. The crypto initiation rites were just purposefully lighting your money on fire and saying embarrassing stuff like "WAGMI" and "slurp juice" in public
This is probably preaching to the choir here, but @jonathanzong.com and @frank.computer have a 🔥 new @techpolicypress.bsky.social op-ed on how AI co-opts, tokenizes, denigrates, and drains the political economy of disability rights. 1/2
If you’re only bummed at anti-AI folks for opportunistically invoking IP-adjacent concerns as a proxy for AI policy priorities, I’m sorry to report you‘ve not reached the limits of your disappointment
Not a lot of investment in using euphemisms for the eugenic fantasies anymore.
With the caveat that Ed's posts are pretty hyperbolic, I think this is at least directionally right about the likelihood that costs will go up, not down, if what's happening in the software industry is any indication.
There's a budding revival of late-90s/early-2000s cyberlibertariansm (these ideas on open source AI, enshittification, etc.) that correctly diagnoses problems with concentrated corporate power and then doubles down on *the exact same* law/policy/politics of hyper-individualism…
Sam Gregory analyzes Apple's new Reference Image feature on the iPhone 18 Pro — "a serious piece of engineering, and a genuine response to the epistemic crisis of AI" — and the unanswered questions it raises.
@reckless.bsky.social’s interview with Bill Gates may be the most depressing recording my ears have ever been on the receiving end of
In part, some folks are just prone to overrotating on an op that seems in line with their agendas without sweating the details. But there are also tech pundits laundering these technoapocalyptic talking points straight into mainstream media spaces.
Don't get me started
Barf. Microsoft's AI CEO gave some of the most subtly offensive possible responses to @reckless.bsky.social's grilling here. The worst were the retreats on metrics and value of generative AI services, which implied an shockingly low opinion (and understanding) of human needs a…
Substance aside, pretty extraordinary to see the DOJ attack the credibility of the Register of Copyrights in a public filing like this (from the U.S. OpenAI copyright MDL).
There are good-faith policy arguments against AI companies dictating governance *AND* people using chatbots as torture simulators, and both will lose as the AI companies (a) unilaterally impose guardrails for baroque, anti-democratic reasons that (b) will probably fail with no consequences
Just emerging from office hours and realizing that I should probably check the news before presuming that OpenAI has not yet changed its name to OpenSI
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