Was great fun to discuss Oppenheimer the man and OPPENHEIMER the film - his life, achievements and mistakes. Thanks for having me on Jim Herlihy

thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/oppenheimer-an…

Working with Logan at Anthropic is a really amazing opportunity. Apply!

*On-going reports on AI risk (after France)
* Identify thresholds & define capabilities that could pose severe risk (in time for France)

To flip it round, this is why I always hate when people say things like 'well policy X worked in Malta or Iceland!'
Like yeah, their population is smaller than Bristol. Gives us very little evidence that policy X can scale.

Very interesting intra-US-VC argument over releasing model weights (what companies call 'opensource')

turns out mark zuckerberg is not running a charity

I've had the pleasure of working with Shahar Avin for 7 years: he's ambitious, discerning & supportive

This will be a great program - increasing our systemic resilience to AI risk

Read this is as 'Monaco' and was like 'where do they fit the factories?!' welp time for bed

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The new international Network of AI Safety Institutes will convene with 'other stakeholders later this year in the San Francisco area'
nist.gov/system/files/d…

good thread on Finnish motivations: prestige, geopolitics & compute governance

such a cool front cover (and a good report!)

Bold to publish this on the day of the (checks notes) international AI Safety Summit

The music echoes 'A Time of Quiet Between the Storms'.

Paul fell in love with Chani - but also with the desert, sietch & Fremen.
His decision here ends their love - but also ends Fremen culture as he knew it, ends the sietch & will even end the desert.

He sees it all & mourns.

sensible stuff

Frontier AI Safety Commitments
🔥🔥🔥

A generally interesting and good column from Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦, but he needs to (re)read Adam Tooze Wages of Destruction and David Edgerton Rise and Fall of the British Nation

UK industry did keep pace with Germany (from a much higher base, as big % of germans in agriculture)

Good news that all the main frontier Ai companies are in the Forum - good stuff