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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 11h ago
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funding the web essay

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Luke Stark Ronen Tamari Robin Berjon Dan Hon

“I interviewed quite a few people for ftw.fund, but I didn't push anyone to go on the record, it's a tiny industry.”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who …
Rachel Coldicutt: Not sure I'm prepared to crank it back to Alta Vista just yet but why not
Rachel Coldicutt: I was working at a start-up 1999/2000 and I remember coming into work one day and everyone was like LOOK AT THIS!!
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 5d ago
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AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Hypervisible Nick Diakopoulos David Kaye Meredith Martin +4
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

Questions & unknowns

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“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Debates gaining attention

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3 experts · 3 posts · 3d ago
Luke Stark Pwnallthethings Dan Hon
Luke Stark: It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not…
Pwnallthethings: an interesting thing is that the chinese public is one of the most globally bullish on AI and the US public one of the most bearish
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2 experts · 5 posts · 4d ago
Dan Hon samuel mehr
samuel mehr: there are many complex ethical and practical reasons for you to forbid students from using AI for scientific writing, and to not use it yourself for scientific writing. the most compelling one is s…
samuel mehr: AI engineer: at great expense our frontier model now emulates human authors 42% more closely Any decent literary agent: yeah but which human authors mate
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