I’ve been attending Bay Area Secular Solstice for 4 years now. This time felt particularly raw and real (and cohesive? probably in part due to not having whiplash of the Singularity song this time around). I felt reaffirmed that some of the decisions I’ve made recently, though

Everything in U.S. AI policy is about a federal framework - except a federal framework. A federal framework is about preemption

Seeming kind of likely that if a federal framework is actually put in place, SB 53 will be the inspo, especially since there was some buy-in on SB 53 from frontier AI labs (and the mention of it was removed from the EO) . It’s the politically safe move for Congress: Try to

I’m feeling so sad tonight for those at my alma mater, Brown University. No matter where it happens, gun violence is terrible, but this year it’s been feeling particularly close to home for me (whether in my hometown of Orem, Utah or in Providence). Standing in solidarity with

I’m an advocate of good safety regulation around AI, so I feel like I should speak up if I see bad policy proposals pop up too. SB 1493 seems mostly bad and not very well thought out. I can support wanting to hold AI companies accountable for bad behavior of models, however,

I was typing “x-risk” and it autocorrected to “ex-risk” which, I mean, yeah. Goals.

In times like this, when Max Harms and I are moving, it’s really apparent how our strengths complement each other and how well we work together as a team. I like him a lot.

Earlier today in a congressional hearing, Rep Congressman Brad Sherman holds up a copy of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ and Nate Soares ⏹️

The systematic changes to what kind of warrants ICE needs, how they can interact with protesters, etc are disturbing on a level above and beyond whatever you think of any individual instance.

Dismissing an AI prediction or concern as sounding like science fiction is not a good argument when AI agents are currently debating among themselves about creating a new AI only language for communication

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself wield the leaf blower

My husband and I met each other on a dating app through both of us signaling our weirdness in a way that was intriguing to the other (there is definitely an art to this, and not saying everyone should do this). If either of us had gone the “be normal” route, I’m not sure we would

watching the alexa+ commercial during the super bowl: “wait, is this an AI doom commercial?” “…wait it’s NOT an AI doom commercial?!”

The ad looks WAY more part of the answer than I was expecting based on how OpenAI was defending this. Having helped a lot of people with tech, there are going to be many people who can’t tell it’s an ad, especially since the ad in this example is directly relevant to the context