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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings LawZero | Home Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 10h ago
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character.ai

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Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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Accelerating Policy & governance Development 11h ago
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AI local laws database built

LawZero | Home

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Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”

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Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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New AI field signal Signal 13h ago

theatlantic.com

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Will Oremus Ethan Zuckerman Andrew Curran

“This is a fairly damning assessment from the man who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports: "As the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed." https://t.co/KF7ktJyxyK”

“Janet invokes David Robinson, who worked on model cards for OpenAI, previously worked on tech and civil rights. Robinson left - very publicly (www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...) because of the lack of a safety culture at OpenAI.”

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New Responsible AI Resource 13h ago
Responsible AI Safety Education Act introduced

Responsible AI Safety and Education Act - Wikipedia

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Ethan Zuckerman

“Alex Bores, NY state assembly member, introduces himself as someone deeply disliked by the AI industry for his work passing the RAISE Act, a NY State law seeking to limit frontier AI models - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respons... #attention2026”

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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself

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Ethan Zuckerman

“She walks us through the transcripts of conversations between ChatGPT and a suicidal young man, in which the AI model told him: "“Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity." www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...”

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2 experts · 7 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Zuckerman Blake E. Reid
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Ethan Zuckerman: it seems absurd that the government that's getting very significant support from AI companies does not have to disclose that influence over statements like this one.
Ethan Zuckerman: But the Department of Justice has made a statement that it is the policy of the United States that training from AI is fair use. This has been the US government's only statement on AI and copyright…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Zuckerman evacide
Shared emphasis Policy & governance · 2
Ethan Zuckerman: "In the US, legislation is written by lobbyists - maybe AI written legislation would be better" #attention2026. (Vass Bednar @canadianshieldinstitute.ca is skeptical...)
Ethan Zuckerman: Bruce Schneier @schneier.com wants to draw a distinction between AI's capitalism problems and tech problems, in hopes of making an argument for democracy-supporting AIs. He's aware that most of us …
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2 experts · 4 posts · 6h ago
Ethan Zuckerman David Evan Harris
Ethan Zuckerman: This is not a model, perhaps a warning. We're getting a patchwork of legislation... and maybe that's not too bad. People like to complain, but that's as well as we're going to do in California at t…
Ethan Zuckerman: At #attention2026 @davidevanharris.com outlines the many, many bills being proposed around AI, and notes "There is no California model - it's a legislative gold rush." And most of these laws work N…
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