Great conversation with @JOEBOTxyz on why Congress must act now to secure our freedoms from Big AI! Passing @MarshaBlackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would be a promising start!

First in @thehill: @MarshaBlackburn is pressing the messaging platform Kik over its dangers to users. She is accusing the platform of “turning a blind eye” or “allowing” the exploitation and abuse of minors. thehill.com/policy/technolog…

I’m sure the JAWBONE Act is fine, but let’s not pretend that Big Tech censorship in 2020 was because of government. It wasn’t. It was almost completely led by ideological employees at private companies. Also, let’s be honest. FIRE only cares about this because of Jimmy Kimmel 😂

Let me fix this for you: CCIA asked for a facial challenge (contradicting what the Supreme Court advised in Moody) on a practical, content-neutral law that imposes a modest burden on trillon dollar companies in an area where states have a traditional constitutional power (disregarding direct precedent in Paxton), and asserted rights of people not before the court (ignoring a Court's inability to grant universal injunctions as explained in Trump v. CASA), and it wants Justice Alito to overturn the Fifth Circuit on that basis.

Russiagate for the billionaire tech crowd

@NCOSE was at the meeting. I was thrilled to hear: @POTUS wants to see legit child protection legislation pass this year. Guess what was NOT discussed: the House garbage fire called “Kids Act,” opposed by 44 state attorneys general. @BetterFuture_AI @fairplayforkids @A1Policy @Heritage @CWforA

This is going to be cited by Big Tech for years, so let's post for posterity what OpenAI reports on the second-to-last page: "Most of the social media posts we identified generated little or no observable engagement. We found no evidence that the false claims about ChatGPT user data being compromised were amplified by authentic high-reach accounts or beyond the X platform." (Emphasis mine.)

I'm more bullish on GAAIA (the Trahan-Obernolte bill) than a lot of safety types, but one flaw that a lot of people (including me, initially) overlooked is that the whistleblower protection section strips out all of the good stuff that Sen. Grassley's AI Whistleblower Protection Act included. Most notably, the protection for disclosures about "substantial and specific" dangers to public health/public safety/national security. I talked about why it's necessary to protect that kind of disclosure in my Lawfare whistleblower piece from a year ago, and IMO the hypothetical I used to illustrate the issue has aged pretty well.

I spoke with @TBarrabi about Microsoft's new incubator to provide Chinese tech startups with AI tech and gain global market share. When Microsoft wants something from Washington, it wraps itself in the American flag. But then continues to prioritize market access in China.

The smartphone has done more damage to family and culture in just a few short years than leftism achieved in its multi-decade march through the institutions. Its danger is not in corrupting the youth through sophistry (though there’s plenty of that), but in changing the very ecology of human interaction, dulling the mind, and diminishing our capacity for love, marriage, and family life.

What are the risks of AI? What is at risk for average people who are only just beginning to brush up against this innovation? How is it changing the human mind and heart? Dr. Mark T. Mitchell from @patrickhenrycol thinks about this a lot, and in anticipation of his new book, we sat down to talk about the relationship between people and technology and where God fits into it all.

Fantastic essay by Catholic philosopher Anton Barba-Kay, criticizing pope's AI encyclical. ABK says pope does not recognize the fundamental threat AI poses to the human person, mistakenly thinking it to be a technology like any other. hedgehogreview.com/web-featu… Excerpt here:

Very important 👇

“AI is becoming too powerful & too formative to be treated merely as a technical product. It is a civilizational event. It cannot be left only to engineers, investors and regulators. Theologians, philosophers, educators, pastors, rabbis, civic leaders, & lawmakers must all be part of the conversation.”

With public opinion—and a slew of presidential hopefuls—beating back A.I.’s “no rules” agenda, the lobbyist armies of Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI are suddenly supporting safeguards they rejected just a year ago. @IKrietzberg has more: puck.news/illonois-sb-315-wh…

Saying "NO AI data centers" won't end in victory. They'll just build them anyways. If you truly want to make a difference, you need to say, "No data centers, UNLESS..." Turn it into a negotiation instead of a war, so we can fight over what really matters. No data centers UNLESS they're not draining our energy. In fact, you could say, "you want 10 gigawatts of power? Ok, YOU pay for it. And because we’re allowing you to do it, you have to produce 15 gigawatts of power and give the excess to the grid." It's a win-win and YOU control the terms.

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“We see ourselves as a natural pathway for eventually bringing technologies like this into clinical care as part of a broader genetics platform — a full ‘Genetic Optimization’ stack,” [says] head of communications at Nucleus Genomics. The future of mutation.