Executive Director at the AI Policy Institute.
Joined August 2019
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18 Oct 2024
1/ @OpenAI, @GoogleDeepMind, and @AnthropicAI are aiming to build AGI, and they’re moving fast. My op-ed published today in @TIME explores why policymakers in Washington need to wake up. Link in thread.
From Daniel Colson: Silicon Valley takes AGI seriously—Washington should too time.com/7093792/ai-artifici…
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We were honored to join @MarkWarner and @SenatorRounds in hosting Ray Kurzweil this morning for a conversation in the Senate on the national security implications of artificial general intelligence.
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Today, we're launching Congress on Superintelligence, which tracks members of Congress who have joined the conversation on AI superintelligence, recursive self-improvement, and loss of control. They get it! theaipn.org/issue/quotes
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Recently, major AI industry players (incl. a16z, Meta, & OpenAI’s Greg Brockman) announced >$100M in spending on pro-AI super PACs. This is an attempt to copy a wildly successful strategy from the crypto industry, to intimidate politicians away from pursuing AI regulations.🧵
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29 May 2025
Keeping advanced AI chips out of the hands of the Chinese Communists isn’t about business, it’s a national security issue.
A word of warning to companies like @nvidia, anyone who breaks the law and circumvents export controls will be held accountable.
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23 May 2025
Mark Beall: The Vatican is Ahead of the US Government on AI Regulation @MarkBeall
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18 Oct 2024
1/ @OpenAI, @GoogleDeepMind, and @AnthropicAI are aiming to build AGI, and they’re moving fast. My op-ed published today in @TIME explores why policymakers in Washington need to wake up. Link in thread.
From Daniel Colson: Silicon Valley takes AGI seriously—Washington should too time.com/7093792/ai-artifici…
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2/ Witnesses @hlntnr and Will Saunders (prev. OpenAI) in a Senate judiciary committee hearing last month warned that AGI could be just a few years away. Yet the U.S. has little to no regulatory oversight of companies racing toward this goal.
time.com/7093792/ai-artifici…
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3/ Policymakers can’t afford to ignore the warnings. We need transparency and regulation to prevent AGI from going off the rails.
Many thanks to the team at @TIME.
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27 Sep 2024
New collaborative poll with opponents of SB1047 out today
1/6 Collaborative poll on California's AI bill (SB1047) validates our previous surveys. Working with a critic, we designed wording together. Result? 62% support, matching our past findings. 🧵
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9 Aug 2024
AIPI polled Californians this week on the popularity of a range of amendments to the state's SB1047. See the thread below:
1/ AIPI released a new poll of California this week looking at amendments proposed to the state’s SB1047 regulating frontier AI development. We find that Californians support safety testing requirements and prefer keeping the Frontier Model Division to oversee AI development.
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1/ AIPI released a new poll of California this week looking at amendments proposed to the state’s SB1047 regulating frontier AI development. We find that Californians support safety testing requirements and prefer keeping the Frontier Model Division to oversee AI development.
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Interesting poll on Californians' views of SB1047. Two things in particular stand out:
1) Support for SB1047 is v strong ( 39 net support); this is not surprising
2) Support for SB1047 is even stronger among tech workers ( 47 net support); this is surprising, at least to me
1/ AIPI’s polling on California’s AI regulation bill SB1047 was featured in Politico Pro yesterday. We found 59% of Californians support the legislation and 20% oppose, with support rising to 64% among tech workers and 71% with state Democrats.
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22 Jul 2024
I'm not surprised SB 1047 has great numbers (it has polled really well every poll I've seen) but I am surprised to find the 47 among tech workers. Maybe just tracking that tech workers are mostly Dems and Dems more in favor? Either way, vivid reminder Twitter isn't real life.
22 Jul 2024
New poll presents 1,000 voters with what I think is a decent summary of the arguments for and against SB 1047 (although maybe could've mentioned some political economy counterarguments?) and finds 39 net support, rising to 47 among tech workers.
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22 Jul 2024
👏 Beyond the broad public support from Californians for SB 1047 (which, among other things, aims to mandate safety testing from tech companies developing advanced AI), it's great to see even more support come from Californians who work in the tech industry:
22 Jul 2024
I'm not surprised SB 1047 has great numbers (it has polled really well every poll I've seen) but I am surprised to find the 47 among tech workers. Maybe just tracking that tech workers are mostly Dems and Dems more in favor? Either way, vivid reminder Twitter isn't real life.
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22 Jul 2024
New poll presents 1,000 voters with what I think is a decent summary of the arguments for and against SB 1047 (although maybe could've mentioned some political economy counterarguments?) and finds 39 net support, rising to 47 among tech workers.
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23 Jul 2024
New polling from AIPI on California SB1047 released in Politico yesterday.
1/ AIPI’s polling on California’s AI regulation bill SB1047 was featured in Politico Pro yesterday. We found 59% of Californians support the legislation and 20% oppose, with support rising to 64% among tech workers and 71% with state Democrats.
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4 Jun 2024
1/15: In April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.” openai.com/index/planning-fo…
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10 May 2024
1/ A new poll from AIPI in Politico this week reveals strong public support for regulation of AI data use. 60% of Americans believe AI companies should not freely train on public data. This is more than just privacy—it's about control of your own data.
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3/ On top of data concerns, around 60% back a special electricity tax for AI companies, aiming to fund upgrades to the grid. This mirrors a growing awareness of the environmental cost of AI technologies.
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4/ See the full article, toplines and crosstabs in the links below. Thank you @afternoondelete for the reporting, as always.
Toplines: drive.google.com/file/d/1Lvz…
Crosstabs: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZNo…
Politico Article: politico.com/newsletters/dig…
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