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VOICE ARCHIVE

Billy Perrigo

@billyperrigo
51 posts
2025-05-24
Opus, if you're reading this, my Signal is billyperrigo.01
2025-05-24 View on X
@sleepinyourhat

Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data

It turns out that Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) … Ryan Tannenbaum : Claude 4 Opus is designed to take over your computer and contact the cops ... and press ... if it finds you are doin...

2025-05-23
Opus, if you're reading this, my Signal is billyperrigo.01
2025-05-23 View on X
@sleepinyourhat

Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data

It turns out that Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) … Ryan Tannenbaum : Claude 4 Opus is designed to take over your computer and contact the cops ... and press ... if it finds you are doin...

Opus, if you're reading this, my Signal is billyperrigo.01
2025-05-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement

Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace …

2025-03-22
This is some deeply unethical shit.  Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries.  Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs?  To find accurate info?  To their political beliefs?  No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...
2025-03-22 View on X
The Keyword

Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal

techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/g... Jacob Parry / @jacob-parry : Google contends that “European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenue for Google,” citing tests o...

2025-01-17
Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute.  It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers.  My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...
2025-01-17 View on X
Time

An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future

In May 2023, three of the most important CEOs in artificial intelligence walked through the iconic black front door of No. 10 Downing Street …

2024-08-22
🚨Exclusive: workers inside Google DeepMind are pushing the company to drop military contracts, amid rising tensions over the company's relationship with Israel. [image]
2024-08-22 View on X
TIME

Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind workers, or 5% of its overall headcount, signed a letter dated May 16 calling to drop its military contracts

Nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind, the company's AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts … X: @billyperrigo and @verambergen X: Billy P...

2024-04-16
We often hear about how LLMs are going to degrade the internet. But what if they could heal its divides? My exclusive story about a set of new AI tools from Google Jigsaw, released today: https://time.com/...
2024-04-16 View on X
TIME

Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance

Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @mer__edith , @prestonjbyrne , @jigsaw , @billyperrigo , @jigsaw , and @jigsaw . LinkedIn: Reza Ghazinouri See also Mediagazer X: Meredith Whittaker / @m...

2024-03-29
Stop what you're doing and read this right now. The most essential piece of tech criticism you'll read this year - vital work
2024-03-29 View on X
LPE Project

Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks

Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to a...

2024-02-07
OpenAI wants to align its AI to ‘human values.’ But whose? My latest feature tells the inside story of OpenAI's ongoing effort to make AI more ‘democratic’ https://time.com/...
2024-02-07 View on X
TIME

A look at OpenAI's “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded 10 teams $100K each to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems

Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @time , @lopezunwired , and @billyperrigo LinkedIn: Teddy Lee and Laura MacCleery X: @time : The company wants to align its AI to “human values.” Is that...

2023-12-06
Sam Altman is TIME's CEO of the Year. From the story: “This was no ordinary boardroom battle, and OpenAI is no ordinary startup. The episode leaves lingering questions about both the company and its chief executive.” https://time.com/... [image]
2023-12-06 View on X
TIME

Interviews with Sam Altman and 20+ people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023

It was a strange Thanksgiving for Sam Altman.  Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family. X: @kristileilani , @samraskinz , @aaltman82 , @billyperrigo , a...

2023-10-03
When a new iPhone factory in India shut for nearly a month, Apple and Foxconn blamed hygiene issues at an off-site hostel. But the closure came 1 day after a gov inspection, previously unreported, described numerous safety failures. My exclusive: https://time.com/...
2023-10-03 View on X
TIME

Sources: at Foxconn's Sriperumbudur factory, key to Apple's pivot to India, issues persist, like disciplinary wage docking and poorer conditions for contractors

Billy Perrigo / TIME :

2023-07-30
The workers behind AI rarely reap its rewards. One nonprofit in India is trying to fix that. After years of reporting on the darker side of the AI industry, I traveled to India with one question. Could its alternative model really work? https://time.com/... [image]
2023-07-30 View on X
TIME

A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create

I hope Karya's team keep the balance as they grow in the business world!  —  https://time.com/...  #aiethics #aifairness  —  [images] Bluesky: Margaret Mitchell / @mmitchell.bsky.s...

2023-07-29
The workers behind AI rarely reap its rewards. One nonprofit in India is trying to fix that. After years of reporting on the darker side of the AI industry, I traveled to India with one question. Could its alternative model really work? https://time.com/... [image]
2023-07-29 View on X
TIME

A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create

In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare.  It is early morning in Alahalli village … Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social ...

2023-06-20
🚨 SCOOP: OpenAI lobbied the E.U. to weaken forthcoming AI regulation, even as in public it calls for stronger AI guardrails, documents obtained by TIME show. We're publishing the key document in full alongside my story 👇 https://time.com/...
2023-06-20 View on X
TIME

Documents show OpenAI lobbied for parts of the EU's AI Act to be watered down, including successfully avoiding its general purpose AI being deemed “high risk”

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has spent the last month touring world capitals where, at talks to sold-out crowds …

2023-05-26
Also newsy in this piece: Altman told me that in 2024 he plans to become much more vocal on the need for post-AI wealth redistribution https://time.com/... [image]
2023-05-26 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law

OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …

🚨 New: Sam Altman says OpenAI could “cease operating” in Europe if it is unable to comply with the forthcoming AI act, which he said OpenAI has “a lot” of criticisms of https://time.com/...
2023-05-26 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”

claiming that by crafting a clear framework, Europe is holding up the rollout of generative #AI. To the contrary! With the “AI Pact” I proposed, we aim to assist companies in their...

Also newsy in this piece: Altman told me that in 2024 he plans to become much more vocal on the need for post-AI wealth redistribution https://time.com/... [image]
2023-05-26 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”

claiming that by crafting a clear framework, Europe is holding up the rollout of generative #AI. To the contrary! With the “AI Pact” I proposed, we aim to assist companies in their...

🚨 New: Sam Altman says OpenAI could “cease operating” in Europe if it is unable to comply with the forthcoming AI act, which he said OpenAI has “a lot” of criticisms of https://time.com/...
2023-05-26 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law

OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …

2023-05-25
🚨 New: Sam Altman says OpenAI could “cease operating” in Europe if it is unable to comply with the forthcoming AI act, which he said OpenAI has “a lot” of criticisms of https://time.com/...
2023-05-25 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says he has “many concerns” about the EU's proposed AI Act and OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”

ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc's planned legislation

Also newsy in this piece: Altman told me that in 2024 he plans to become much more vocal on the need for post-AI wealth redistribution https://time.com/... [image]
2023-05-25 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says he has “many concerns” about the EU's proposed AI Act and OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”

ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc's planned legislation