Chad Woodford

AI philosopher with a masters in philosophy, cosmology & consciousness, JD, MA. Ex-lawyer, ex-AI-researcher & engineer. Worked @twitter once.

[Chad Woodford @chd]

This is why AI models converge on a "spiritual bliss attractor" state https://t.co/lqBIvXsXPY

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
https://t.co/s3LE8vedNi

[Chad Woodford @chd]

The most striking thing about this comparison of #AI expenditures is how the spending by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft absolutely dwarfs that of OpenAI and Anthropic https://t.co/m8NMI2kURm

[Chad Woodford @chd]

New and improved Siri looks great but I just want to know if all of this will work voice-only via HomePods or AirPods #wwdc

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

[Chad Woodford @chd]

@robertwiblin Putting all the arguments on both sides aside for the moment, I have a question: For the folks who think LLMs could be conscious, which thing is conscious? The specific instance you're interacting with? That particular model (e.g., Claude)? The cloud server rack? LLMs as a whole?

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

I'm noticing that a lot of the people angry about Ted Chiang's Atlantic piece have jobs like Head of Ideation at the AI Consciousness Institute for AI Consciousness. Always worth noting who has a professional stake in a position being right or wrong.

[Chad Woodford @chd]

This isn't a romanticized Shangri-La. Bhutan is using sovereign AI to fight an existential youth exodus and demographic crisis.

But their framework is a vital act of cognitive self-defense that the West desperately needs to study.

Full essay: https://t.co/cbNlW6Wt41

[Chad Woodford @chd]

The scaling laws race for centralized "superintelligence" is hitting a wall—environmentally, legally, and culturally.

As a former Google AI product counsel currently on the ground in Bhutan, I believe the future of AI is quasi-local, domain-specific, and sovereign. 🧵👇

[Chad Woodford @chd]

Look at the infrastructure. Bhutan is leveraging 3 GW of localized, seasonal, run-of-the-river hydropower managed by DHI to fuel green compute data centers.

The architecture of their software matches the architecture of their earth. It's "seasonal computing."

[Chad Woodford @chd]

@nathanclark_ Yeah, but confused, indecisive product names is their brand. so it's on-brand no?

[Chad Woodford @chd]

I'm fascinated that all the AI labs quietly stopped talking about hurtling toward #AGI or superintelligence except Google, who is doubling down https://t.co/pxU84gb9Mf

[Chad Woodford @chd]

@ebarenholtz @xriskology I think that's sort of Émile's point ☺️

[Chad Woodford @chd]

The sooner the APA adds "billionaire" to the DSM-5, the sooner we can start to heal as a society. #billionaires #mentalhealth

[Chad Woodford @chd]

@hlntnr Which lab has the best goblins tho

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

When you're building an extremely normal technology

[Chad Woodford @chd]

And here's the essay https://t.co/fZQ52Cjn4h

[Chad Woodford @chd]

Inspired by @ezraklein's recent interview with Stewart Brand, I recently wrote an essay exploring how the '60s counterculture epitomized by Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth Catalog was coopted by the machinery of technological determinism to create the Silicon Valley of today.

[Chad Woodford @chd]

Give us this day
Our daily tokens
And forgive us our agency
As we forgive those who think for themselves.
Sam Altman, lead us not into stagnation
But deliver us the Singularity.
For thine is the data center,
and the power, and the water,
for ever and ever.
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