Despite the fallout from SBF's political donations, crypto super PAC Fairshake raised $203M, more than others, like runner-up Koch Industries, which raised $26M
I've always wondered when the tech industry which makes so much money and has so much to lose from poor regulation would start lobbying at scale. … X: Alex Sammon / @alex_sammon : Something truly insa...
Q&A with Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks about his work on California's AI safety bill, the backlash against the bill, advising xAI on safety, and more
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : X: @shiringhaffary , @drtechlash , and @anjneymidha X: Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : NEW: For this week's newsletter, I talked to Center for AI Safety's @DanHendry...
The US NIST appoints ex-OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano as head of AI safety; Christiano has been criticized for “AI doomer” views and effective altruism ties
Former OpenAI researcher once predicted a 50 percent chance of AI killing all of us.
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary role in making sure ...
How effective altruism, described by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, is influencing White House, Congress, and others' approach toward AI regulation
Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement's billionaire adherents pour money into D.C. …
A source and a doc show that RAND Corporation, backed by $15M+ from Dustin Moskovitz's effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden's AI EO
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Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern
You are probably sick of hearing about OpenAI palace intrigue … Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : OpenAI Is Close to AI Breakthrough That Could Threaten Humanity: Report Kate Seamons / Newser : Reuters:...
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo
4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC : Sam Altman's back. ...
Sam Altman's return at OpenAI, partly formed on effective altruism principles, revealed hard limits and caps a bruising year for the divisive social movement
Sam Altman's firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI development must slow down; his return marked its limits