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Sanders proposes public AI company ownership

AP Exclusive: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Matthew Sheffield

“It does seem to be a separation of regulation and fund, but more effort should be put into preserving independence, including a 2/3 confirmation requirement, and potentially a clause making their removal dependent on Senate impeachment. He definitely is tal…”

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Matthew Sheffield: If AI is going to be as destructive to the current economy as many companies say, Bernie Sanders's partial nationalization idea makes sense. (Unmentioned here is that China has effectively been doi…
Matthew Sheffield: As long as the government doesn't have to pay for the stock, there's no risk. The entire center-to-right would bail them out anyway. So this is just an end-run around the pretense. Might as well ge…
Matthew Sheffield: No buyout, a free assignment of stock ownership.
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago
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Aram Sinnreich Pavel ae Andrea Lathrop Matthew Sheffield
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ae: Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
ae: this is funny "Lemma 1 (NAND Gates in AoE II). It is possible to build and operate a NAND gate in the scenario editor by using one player, two units acting as the {0, 1} bits, and no other components"
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Also, the Town Square can speak Chinese.
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Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings SE Gyges Matthew Sheffield
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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Matt Darling Matthew Sheffield
Matt Darling: Several days of wandering around Ithaca, trying to come up with a plan. Comes up with a plan: don't let them have weapons. Forgets to lock the door to the weapons room.
Matt Darling: You really have to wonder what the mechanism of their exposure to the Odyssey is, given it's clearly not the poem.
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