The EPIC Act is a bipartisan, common sense solution to increase NIST’s capacity and promote American leadership abroad. Former NIST Director Walter Copan and Tim Fist explain why Congress should include it in this year’s NDAA.

🚨 Encode filed an amicus brief last Friday arguing to the court that blocking OpenAI's for-profit conversion protects the public interest. The brief has already picked up support from leading AI researchers including Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton. The court should require

Geoff Hinton is a good man encodeai.org/encode-backs-l…

OpenAI's shift to profit raises tough questions: can safety and humanity coexist with shareholder interests? How can we keep AI accountable in a profit-driven model? Filing to block this transition is about protecting the public good.

California must lead the way on AI and do it responsibly. 🚨 We’re sponsoring SB 53, a new bill that gives AI lab employees a voice and proposes public compute for researchers and startups.

back at it again. lets roll 👀

Millions of students know about AI-generated explicit images of classmates circulating at school—but only a few cases make the news. At Encode, we built a deepfake incident tracker so students can report these incidents anonymously to help illuminate the issue and drive changes

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Tell your senators that banning the states from protecting the public from AI would be a massive mistake.

Watching us grow over the last few years has been nothing short of incredible. Grateful for the ride, and even more excited for what’s ahead. Happy 5th, Encode. 💙

BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵

One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵

Post from Encode’s president and founder Sneha summing up our feelings on this strange episode. Extremely grateful for Sneha’s leadership and strength, she’s truly one of a kind

Incredibly disappointed by the actions taken by OpenAI to deter good-faith critics. Weeks after, we remain open and interested to working with any company, including OpenAI, toward our shared goal: ensuring AI serves humanity responsibly. Read our full statement below:

“Every emotional moment becomes suspect ... It creates this low-level paranoia within people that kills the spontaneity and magic of social media.” Encode’s Kashyap Rajesh in TIME this morning, on how AI-generated videos are disrupting our feeds: