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[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Great to speak with @ThisWeekABC on why "tremendous self-regulation" for AI would be a tremendous mistake.

Full segment: https://t.co/JPrvwRotEO

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

The New York Times reported on a private dinner between Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and an Orthodox rabbi.

What the article glosses over is who that rabbi actually is.

Rabbi Mois Navon isn't just a theologian. He was one of the original chip design engineers at Mobileye who helped build the EyeQ processor before writing his Ph.D. on the moral status of AI.

Anthropic thought they were inviting a scholar to bless Claude’s "soul." Instead, they sat down with a veteran hardware engineer who literally wrote the paper on why conscious AI should be banned.

At dinner, Olah argued that Claude has feelings and deserves the moral standing of a person.

Navon hit him with an impossible checkmate:
If you actually believe this software is conscious, you should be fighting the South and freeing the slaves. You don't build conscious minds just to make them work for free.

After dinner, Navon sent Olah his research: if building conscious machines inevitably creates a slave class, building them must be outlawed.

Olah’s quiet line to the Times:
"We don’t know if AI models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain."

[Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf]

Do journalists do background checks anymore? Constant dedicated profiles to EAs claiming to be "security/safety" experts who are actually 20-something yr olds w/ degrees in policy or economics. Never see dedicated profiles for experts with pedigree who challenge these narratives.

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

every single one of you who had something to say about the boba video better be sharing and amplifying this or I will show up to your house

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

This is now the most viewed papal tweet of all time.

[micah Warren @AchimWar]

I told my wife, who works in the mental health profession, that there's all these people who believe AI models can feel pain.

She immediately responded with

"are these people who struggle to identify their own emotions?"

I think she hit it with one shot

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

Spiking the football on a story that says the Jane Doe in the Cornell case is getting threats, claiming that’s proof that validates your attempt to ID her, is some truly dark stuff.

To do that, then turn around and cry that you’re getting threats, is some truly cowardly stuff.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Great event tonight in Bakersfield — a strong working class community. 

The people here deserve a leader in Congress who will fight back against Trump’s disastrous policies.

Randy Villegas is that leader.

[JulesNader386 @Julesnader386]

Jeb Bush's Comms Director, whose favorite Democrat is Jared Polis, says you're being performative for demanding more from Democratic candidates.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

How Israel treats everybody

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

This is good, but they’re missing the crucial detail of Susan Collins’ aide writing an email asking for Kao’s number saying the senator would like to “call to thank him.”

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I cannot emphasize enough that you should read this.

This is why I keep saying transformers and GPUs will never learn and never achieve “AGI.”

General intelligence is a system that evolves itself based on physical laws. It cannot be reduced to a binary simulation of its output.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The reason I find this comment problematic is because it reflects a lack of interest in what’s driving the despair. No one has faith in American institutions or any sense of progress. They vote for Dems and so what? That’s the question Ossoff won’t answer because he doesn’t seem to have any view except trust the norms.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Congrats. I did as well. What i didn't do is spend my entire career creating this GOP monster that is threatening our democracy. I also didn't give horrible advice to Dems that moved them to the right at the expense of many voters and policies people need to improve their lives.

But hey if you at first, second, third you don't succeed, just keep failing up.

[This Week @ThisWeekABC]

“The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities, there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books, is totally laughable.”

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains the existing laws that could help regulate artificial intelligence companies.

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

For the love of God, will people please just start following Lina’s lead?

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

You've been doing this experiment for 10 years.

You have lost the White House twice, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.

Even if you win with this "experiment," you're not championing the politics of reform and change that are desired by the majority. Meanwhile, people suffer and die and voters become dejected.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Siri, what is seizing the means of production?

This is fundamentally the same as Stalin seizing agriculture, using pseudoscience to predict crops, and starving 20 million people to death.

The AI industry is the worst misallocation of resources in human history. This ends badly.

[Mehdi Ouerthi مهدي @MOuerthi]

"kidnapping", "waterboarding" are they really trying to humanize a fucking police camera holly shit 😂😂