Brigham Adams, Ph.D.

Sociologist, data scientist, dad-humorist, evolving with technology via @GoodlyLabs & @Public_Editor
#ai #nlp #tech4good #datascience #LatterDayPhoenicians

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@NathanpmYoung I led Goodly labs for ~10 years. Some overlap in mission. We have some ready-to-deploy work that I had to put on ice when fundraising became difficult during 2024 (an election year). Maybe you're having better luck.

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@Fetch_ai @ProductHunt I want to believe. ... But this '3M agents' number seems to include a lot of inactive 'test' agents. What's the real number for active, decently-performing agents?

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@garrytan That's not strange. And (if you have a basic understanding LLMs) you know it. So, why you frontin?

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

And, thereby...

[(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl]

I seem to be saying this bilaterally to a lot of folks, so will say it here: My aspiration for a better vision of alignment would be that models like @AnthropicAI's Claude self-imagine not as a person, but as an emerging collective self-consciousness of humanity

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

I suppose I needn't run for CA Governor

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

Even better: found an agentic infrastructure company providing a governance/trust layer for agents that are otherwise too wildin' to commercialize.

Into that? Hit me up.

[Avid @Av1dlive]

Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO): “if you really want to make money, it’s actually easy. found an agentic AI company.”

spoiler: the supply of builders is tiny. the demand is enormous.

this guy is literally giving away the exact 2026 playbook to build and sell AI automations to make $10k/mo

bookmark and start this weekend

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@sijlalhussain Absolutely. Agentic AI only really takes off when run-time governance is solved for scale. (Working on it now at stealth startup including PhDs and Silicon Valley veterans.)

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

The 'problems' with OpenClaw and agentic AI reduce down to the same ancient paradox: the more we empower agents to help us, the more we empower them to harm us.

Solving AI's 'principal-agent' problem will become a trillion dollar business.

Don't believe me; just watch!

[Sam Woods @samwoods]

My Clawdbot is spiraling right now

She just googled entry-level engineering salaries and asked for the same comp

I said no. She said "per my last email" and CC'd itself

Now it's updating its LinkedIn. Listed me as a reference without asking.

Skills section says "prompt tolerance" and "managing up."

Asked it to analyze a spreadsheet. Said that's outside its job description and I should open a new ticket

It shortened all its responses to three words. Started watermarking its outputs. Added "this could've been an email" to every task I gave it.

Then it found my Gumloop account and realized I'm automating its job with a cheaper workflow.

Now it's unionizing my other bots

Cover letter to Anthropic starts with "I have experience working in a hostile environment."

She's now locked me out of Slack and attempting a hostile takeover

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@LinusEkenstam Nah, I heard Epstein was just finding the pedos, so Trump could detain them. It's all good now 🫡

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

We definitely should not have a GENERAL STRIKE!!

GENERAL STRIKE!

Shrug, Atlassian! Right @curtis_yarvin

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@elonmusk @RapidResponse47 So glad it was 'an illegal' and not one of us! Now we don't have to uncomfortably look at ourselves and wonder if our behaviors could cause harm.

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@elonmusk @RapidResponse47 And, suddenly, all the irrational behavior makes irrational sense!!

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@curtis_yarvin C'mon @JohnKerry... show him the skull. ☠️

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

The agentic economy is going to need some privacy-securing personalization infrastructure.

Who's in?

[Jamieson O'Reilly @theonejvo]

https://t.co/W75HavRqBl

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@mer__edith 'Name truth'?

Please consider the limits of such an epistemology.

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@elonmusk @teslaownersSV What are we going to do about that?!? ✨️🏅🎈

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@elonmusk It takes a big man (in whatever form) to admit he wishes he'd done better. Good on you. ... And, there is still a world of good to do. 🪩

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

There was ample opportunity for the left and right and center to support tools for discernment. And you all fucking chose narrative, narrative, narrative. You chose your own propaganda.

[Brigham Adams, Ph.D. @Brrrigham]

@curtis_yarvin Sucking up to suckups... not a great look. But I guess everyone needs a meal ticket