AI Policy Counsel at @TechFreedom. Tech policy professional: AI, admin law & liberty. Also Boston Terriers. DC native in the LBC. No legal advice.
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Mar 12
New piece from me on laws banning minors from using chatbots.
Minors have a First Amendment right to receive information, and the vast majority of chatbot outputs are protected speech. Full-on bans go beyond protecting minors from obscene material—they're not narrowly tailored.
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Man imagine the size of the snakeheads if DC still had this ecosystem
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Jun 10
My first-impression reactions to @AnthropicAI's Advanced AI Framework. To quote the intro, the framework "draws from both existing and novel concepts." Although I do "not agree with every proposal," I appreciate Anthropic "laying out concrete policy proposals." 🧵
Jun 10
Alongside it, Anthropic is releasing a proposal for how governments can address the risks posed by frontier AI and a policy framework for job displacement, for which we intend to provide substantial financial backing. anthropic.com/policy-on-the-…
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Jun 10
The question is *which* government agency should be in charge of keeping the criteria for covered developers current. NIST / CAISI an obvious contender.
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Jun 10
The framework comes out *against* broad federal preemption of state AI laws. Any federal preemption should be "construed narrowly" and apply to only "specific frontier governance functions" like catastrophic-risk testing and evaluator licensing.
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Jun 10
Drinking game idea: take a shot every time they mention Section 230 in The Social Network sequel
Jun 10
First trailer for ‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ sequel, starring Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison.
The film follows an engineer who becomes a whistleblower on Facebook's most guarded secrets.
In theaters on October 9.
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Jun 9
Last month, @GavinNewsom released EO N-6-26 on developing CA's AI workforce. Directionally, I support the order and its goal of researching/preparing for AI’s impact on CA's labor market. But I had a hard time gleaning exactly the types of programs the EO envisioned.
The @Meta America's Workforce Academy is a tangible example of the type of AI-focused jobs program I'd like to see state and federal governments spearheading. There's no reason the private sector should have to fund and sustain AI workforce programs on its own.
Jun 8
We’re launching America’s Workforce Academy (AWA): a nationwide, unprecedented fast-track to a long-term career in a skilled trade, powered by an initial $115 million first year investment. Including a large-scale skilled trades training program, there is zero cost to the trainees and guarantees a job offer through one of our contractor partners at a @meta data center site.
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Jun 9
Reupping my support for public-private partnerships. If I were a local politician, I'd be researching how to get my locality and constituents involved with AWA.
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Jun 6
RT @goalietaps: objectively the best mantra but i do wish the rhyming scheme was ABCB instead of ABCC (my mayor is muslim / my christian di…
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Jun 2
Good rebuttal to the voluntary point, although the federal government could have accomplished this—create a Secure Frontier Model Deployment benchmarking process for deploying models and require it for gov contracts—without an EO.
Jun 2
Initial reaction to the new AI EO:
No company is formally required to participate, but if a developer wants to sell frontier AI systems to the federal government, participation may soon become the price of entry.
Agencies can build engagement with the process into solicitations, evaluation criteria, and cybersecurity requirements.
So yes, the process is "voluntary," but "voluntary" looks different when the federal government is a dominant customer and refusal can result in procurement consequences.
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