While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right. The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations. Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book. Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy. Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax. There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior. We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid). That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior. America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control. Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

JUST IN: Anthropic says a “huge percentage” of its own employees are now barred from accessing Fable 5 & Mythos 5 under U.S. restrictions.

As I said, they’ve been asking to be regulated and have now succeeded!

🚨Report: John Cornyn has announced he will not campaign for Republican Senate Nominee Ken Paxton for the November General Election

JUST IN: Anthropic urges Congress to require independent safety tests for top AI models.

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…

Bible’s only everywhere in the liturgy man The Bible in the Divine Liturgy Opening Blessing “Blessed is the Kingdom…” → Mark 11:10, Luke 22:29-30, Ephesians 1:3, Matthew 28:19 “Amen” → Revelation 3:14, Revelation 7:12 Great Litany “In peace let us pray to the Lord” → Philippians 4:6-7, Ephesians 6:18, Luke 18:1 “Lord, have mercy” → Psalm 51:1 Prayer for peace → John 14:27, Romans 14:17 Prayer for the Church’s unity → John 17:20-23 Prayer for civil authorities → 1 Timothy 2:1-2 First Antiphon Psalm verses praising God Second Antiphon Psalm verses of praise “Only-Begotten Son and Word of God” reflects: John 1:1-14 Philippians 2:5-11 1 Timothy 3:16 Third Antiphon / Beatitudes Matthew 5:3-12 Luke 23:42-43 (the Good Thief) Small Entrance Psalm 95:6 Psalm 100:4 Psalm 24:7-10 Trisagion Hymn Isaiah 6:3 Revelation 4:8 Epistle Reading Public reading of Apostolic writings 1 Timothy 4:13 Gospel Reading Public proclamation of the Gospel Matthew 28:19-20 Mark 16:15 Great Entrance Christ’s entry into Jerusalem: Matthew 21 Mark 11 Luke 19 Cherubic Hymn imagery: Ezekiel 10 Isaiah 6 Litany of Supplication 1 Timothy 2:1 Philippians 4:6 Kiss of Peace Romans 16:16 1 Corinthians 16:20 1 Peter 5:14 The Creed Summary of biblical teaching: Matthew 28:19 John 1:1 John 3:16 Acts 1:11 Ephesians 4:4-6 Holy Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer) “Let us lift up our hearts” Lamentations 3:41 Colossians 3:1-2 “Holy, Holy, Holy” Isaiah 6:3 Revelation 4:8 “Blessed is He who comes…” Psalm 118:26 Matthew 21:9 Institution Narrative Matthew 26:26-28 Mark 14:22-24 Luke 22:19-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Anamnesis “Do this in remembrance of Me” Luke 22:19 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 Epiclesis Invocation of the Holy Spirit Acts 2 Psalm 51:11 Commemorations Theotokos: Luke 1:28 Luke 1:42 Luke 1:48 Saints: Hebrews 12:1 Lord’s Prayer Matthew 6:9-13 Luke 11:2-4 Holy Communion “The Holy Things are for the holy” 1 Peter 1:15-16 “One is Holy, One is Lord” Revelation 15:4 Communion John 6:51-58 1 Corinthians 10:16 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 Thanksgiving After Communion Psalm 34:8 Luke 24:30-35 Dismissal Matthew 28:19-20 2 Corinthians 13:14

Gonna miss you Tim Thank you for keeping my favorite company, Apple, great for all these years

new policy from anthropic: if you use fable/mythos, they collect your data. no exceptions. not even for enterprise partners.

Humanity isn't even a Type I civilization yet. According to the Kardashev Scale, a Type I civilization harnesses the full energy potential of its planet. Type II taps the power of its star. Type III harnesses the energy of an entire galaxy. As Elon Musk points out, we're still using only a tiny fraction of Earth's available energy and almost none of the Sun's. The gap between where we are and where we could be is almost unimaginable.