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Jason Crawford

@jasoncrawford
12 posts
2026-02-16
The question of AI personhood may be the most important question of the 21st century. Getting it wrong in either direction would be an epic disaster: False negative → we become history's greatest slave-drivers. False positive → we cede the future to p-zombies
2026-02-16 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots

GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots  —  OpenAI is forcing thousands of people to break up with its most controversial AI model.

2026-01-14
Signal creator @moxie is building Confer, an LLM where your conversations are end-to-end encrypted: https://confer.to/ Confer goes to impressive lengths to ensure that the LLM server doesn't, e.g., exfiltrate your data somewhere. The entire server image is signed and is
2026-01-14 View on X
Ars Technica

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …

2025-10-21
Got to see this on a tour of @ScienceCorp_ at Progress Conference. Very cool, congrats to the team:
2025-10-21 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients

www.bbc.com/news/article... @heib20 : Oh wow!  👏👏✨ This is absolutely awesome!  What a life-changing achievement!  ⭐️  —  www.bbc.com/news/article... @platogue : Yes, doctor, I can...

2023-11-29
We are at the dawn of a golden age of creativity. 100x as many people will be able to make their vision into reality, new blockbusters will come out of nowhere, and everyone will benefit. (And we will escape the endless sequels and franchise reboots)
2023-11-29 View on X
TechCrunch

Pika, which builds AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M, including a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed, after emerging from stealth in May 2023

2022-11-25
RIP Fred Brooks, who wrote the classic book on software engineering, *The Mythical Man-Month*. His work on operating systems at IBM gave us the 8-bit byte: https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-25 View on X
New York Times

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91

Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remember...

2022-11-24
RIP Fred Brooks, who wrote the classic book on software engineering, *The Mythical Man-Month*. His work on operating systems at IBM gave us the 8-bit byte: https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
New York Times

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91

He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades.  He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.

2020-12-01
Today Google @DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry. What is this problem, and why is it hard? https://deepmind.com/...
2020-12-01 View on X
New York Times

Alphabet's DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery

Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.

2020-09-29
Good story for those of us old enough to remember HOTorNOT. Here's my own story, with a moral, about the time I built a primitive machine learning dating profile recommender using the HON API c. 2005. @jhong @jimydotorg https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-29 View on X
Mashable

A look back at HOTorNOT, created in 2000 by two UC Berkeley grads on a lark, which was one of the first popular sites to let users create a public profile

2020-07-07
Signal, virtuing https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
Axios

TikTok will pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong following a new security law, saying it doesn't and wouldn't share data with China

TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid a restrictive new law that went into effect last week...

About time. I know someone whose stock options were set to expire *while he was still employed at Palantir*, because it had been *ten years*. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO

Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.  —  Its statement for ...

Signal, virtuing https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
New York Times

Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China

Apple is committed to being transparent … Kim Lyons / The Verge : Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law Tom Grundy / Hong Kon...

2020-04-11
Amazon building its own coronavirus testing lab to monitor the health of its staff. Distributing masks to employees and conducting employee temperature checks. “A next step might be regular testing of all employees, including those showing no symptoms.” https://www.bbc.com/...
2020-04-11 View on X
Washington Post

Amazon says it has begun assembling equipment to build a lab to screen its workers for COVID-19, may be working on antigen testing

Jay Greene / Washington Post :