Rocky Statue, by A. Thomas Schomberg, 1980, 📸 by Nathaniel S. Butler

We are already seeing an explosion of AI regulation that is designed to ban open source while claiming to be neutral.

SB 1047 designates a 'hazardous capability' to include what a third party can show with infinite fine-tuning and re-training. Meanwhile, closed models get points…

40 weeks, 40 documentaries.

Let's go build the future.

🧵A quick thread on some of the themes discussed by Jennifer Huddleston, Mike Godwin, Matt Stoller, & Michael Sobolik (moderated by host Evan Swarztrauber). Thanks to Young Voices for partnering!

“Do you know what NYU is doing?”
“About what?”
“About Israel. Why are we protesting here?”
“I wish I was more educated”

This whole exchange is just perfect. No notes.

The sun is shining, the grass is green, and TikTok US is officially on deathwatch!

President Biden just signed a law that requires TikTok to either divest or face a ban

Here's a quick 🧵 about how we got here:

The one word missing from this statement: divestment

Because the legislation doesn’t ban TikTok. And TikTok knows that.

They don’t want to talk about divestment because it leads straight to ByteDance. Straight to the Chinese Communist Party.

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It's time to bring transparency to foreign lobbying in the halls of power.

Check out Dan Lips's latest post for The National Security Institute which examines federal reform efforts to expose malign foreign influence in policy discussions.

thescif.org/federal-and-st…

There are currently 682 #AI -related bills (581 of them in the states) on the MultiState legislative tracker. An unprecedented amount of policy activity compared with previous tech issues. An avalanche of regulation is coming.
multistate.ai/artificial-int…

Stephon Marbury postgame

We've been in soft-launch for a while, but I'm proud to officially announce that I am joining an amazing team launching the Abundance Institute.

I'll be Head of AI Policy. More -- much more -- to come.

Latest from me in RealClearMarkets detailing how APRA anoints the FTC to be the nation’s digital regulator. Lawmakers should consider the potential costs associated with expanding the agency’s regulatory powers over digital products and services. realclearmarkets.com/articles/2024/…

New org, new title, new site: abundance.institute

TikTok? The company headquartered in Singapore and Los Angeles?

stripe? the san francisco based payments company?

Huge permitting reform news:

The Bureau of Land Management is giving geothermal energy exploration a categorical exclusion from environmental review under NEPA.

If you care about clean energy abundance, this is a massive win.

You cannot love EVs and hate lithium mines.

If conservation groups are unwilling to consider tradeoffs, then policymakers should ignore them.

Playoff basketball at MSG for the second straight year, life is good

May be a bit of a stretch, bear with me, but there was this guy named Robert Bork…

There is a new AI proposal from Center for AI Policy. It should SLAM the Overton window shut.
It's the most authoritarian piece of tech legislation I've read in my entire policy career (and I've read some doozies).
Everything in the bill is aimed at creating a democratically…