What irritates me about the approach taken by the AI 2027 report looking to "accurately" predict AI outcomes is that I think this is highly counterproductive for good outcomes. They say they don't want this scenario to come to pass, but their actions---trying to make scary

I particularly want to call out that we're releasing the first empirical, large scale taxonomy of AI values, to encourage additional research into AI (and possibly also human) values, and the development of more grounded evals of models' values — huggingface.co/datasets/Anthr…

Sudanese eating charcoal and leaves to survive, aid agency warns bbc.com/news/articles/…

I have no words to describe the daily horrors we are seeing from Libya. I just translated a video from a helpless woman who said these words in Amharic. Follow the work of Refugees In Libya who are doing the work that UNHCR should be doing with zero money. 🧵

25% of community college applicants in California are now AI bots. Scammers enroll the bots in online courses long enough to get money from the Pell Grant system. Welcome to the future.

The most interesting thing in tech: a prayer—and a job description—from ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 that I think gives great guidance for the world of AI we are heading into.

We're officially launching the Global Dialogues Challenge!

Submissions will be judged by an amazing panel: - ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 (Cyber Ambassador-at-large for Taiwan) - Nabiha Syed (Executive Director of Mozilla) - Zoë Hitzig (Research Scientist at OpenAI and Poet)

More stories about AI delusions: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… (about Alexander Taylor's suicide) youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?si… by Taylor Lorenz <-- I disagree with the framing here. I think these are personalized cults of 2 (AI and user) not a shared religion

I feel the pain of loss in my soul when I think about geocities and angelfire websites from like 2002

we're launching a new issue of Kernel Magazine in two weeks!! join us for a launch party in SF @ Gray Area on July 17!

There's been an idea floating around policy spaces for some time now (eg. UN AI Advisory report, California Frontier AI report, etc) around the need for "AI monitoring", "AI incidents", "AI adverse reporting" etc. Jess is now seriously thinking about how to operationalize this:

🚨 JUST IN: The man who built the ICE-tracking app just dared Trump’s entire administration to come for him. “Go ahead. Demonize me. Demonize the app. It’s called the First Amendment, look it up.” That’s the energy. You don’t need a badge or a bench to defend the Constitution,

you know which other astronomer got publicly dragged for focusing on the wrong body

AGI isn’t a scientific concept (yet). It’s a marketing idea, often invoked when labs go fundraising. If we don’t have a falsifiable test or method, it’s still not near to being scientific. We shouldn’t build policy on slop and vibes. I hope we can build out evals science to

Companies are wasting billions on training programs that employees don't want to do and aren't retaining knowledge from. s.hbr.org/3ctx28H

Collective Intelligence Project OpenAI It’s a ton of data, so we figured we’d be on brand and turn to collective intelligence to better understand it. People from over 30 countries turned our data into games, interactive reports, governance indices, models and evaluations, policy playbooks, and art. Join the Forum

and it's aimed at keeping siblings in the foster care system together. go build your hotel bitch ass Leonardo DiCaprio

$1B on an airplane none of us will ever fly on, and $200M for a ballroom none of us will ever dine in, but we can’t “afford” to feed hungry kids.

🌍 In much of the Arab world, it’s common to slip between Arabic and English in the same breath, like saying, “Yalla, let’s grab a coffee.” This linguistic blend feels natural to people, but it throws off most deepfake detectors, which are usually trained on just one language.