Cillian Crosson

Exec Director @tarbellcenter, supporting journalism that helps society navigate advanced AI. Signal: cill.53

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

We're hiring for 3 senior roles on our team and have just updated the salary ranges to reflect that.

Join our team and help us scale our support for AI journalism 🚀

[Tarbell Center @tarbellcenter]

❗ UPDATE: We've increased the salary ranges for these role to $140k-190k+ for the Program Director positions and $115-160k+ for the Chief of Staff) ❗

[Jacob Trefethen @JacobTref]

We've opened applications for a new $50M commitment to:
* Community Support Services (e.g. accessing legal aid & public benefits)
* Community Arts & Cultural Organizations
* Community Journalism & Media (e.g. local media, nonprofit newsrooms)

Please share with groups who may be eligible and interested:

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

I'm a judge for this program, which gives grants to reporters to do in-depth reporting on AI. The deadline in July 12.

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

We've built a pretty cracked team, come help us 2x it

[Tarbell Center @tarbellcenter]

Come work for us!

We're hiring a Head of People and Recruitment, which will be a key role as we double our team to 30+ staff over the next two years.

You could be a vital part of the future of AI journalism — just click on the link below:

https://t.co/ak8uIJ1akG

[Tarbell Center @tarbellcenter]

We're looking for a new Head of People and Recruitment, and a new Finance Associate. Could it be you?

By 2030 we're aiming to grow Tarbell into the leading institution for supporting AI journalism globally, providing the funding and training to make that possible.

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

I'm excited to announce that we are organizing a workshop on June 5 for journalists and other fact-gatherers to discuss the threats posed by AI to information integrity, and responses to those threats. If you are a technologist / company building authentication or verification tools and would like to participate, we'd love for you to apply: https://t.co/ge689aHJFR
The workshop is invite-only but we will publish a report after the event.

[Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95]

We're obsessed with the differences between U.S. and Chinese AI. America commands capital; China manufacturing. America pushes the frontier; China on scales and diffuses.

Headlines read like the play-by-play of a manic sports commentator: China is years behind, months behind, pulling ahead, winning, losing, racing towards AGI, racing on a different track.

But moving between the two countries, I’ve been struck by how they have come to mirror and resemble each other.

A shared sense of precarity lies beneath the envy and distrust - the technological future is taking shape at vertiginous speed yet its promise is not shared by all.

For @nytimes, I wrote about how the U.S. and China are hurtling towards a shared A.I future.

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

@NatPurser thank you! tell all your richest friends

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

We’re trying to fix this at @tarbellcenter. Support our work!

https://t.co/bF5VjIR5Aq

[Nat Purser @NatPurser]

i stand by my initial assessment, but i want to flag a couple (non-substack) folks doing great work:

@nitashatiku at washington post
@kevinroose at nyt
@calder_mchugh at politico
@haydenfield at the verge
@ZeffMax at wired
@inafried at axios

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

@JimVandeHei @axios @danprimack @sarafischer @BarakRavid I'm biased, but think tarbell fellows are the gold standard here when it comes to AI

https://t.co/c1v6CDkfiT

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

We've had such a positive reception to this tool from other journalists.

But one thing I want to encourage those journalists to really internalize: you can build things like this too!!

@vronirwin and I built this whole system in less than two weeks while doing our normal jobs and without any technical expertise. We used Claude Code to build all of it.

Current AI capabilities mean that you — yes, you! — can build virtually anything you can think of. The gap between "I wish we could do X" and "we built a thing that does X" has completely collapsed.

That means we should all be thinking way more ambitiously about what tools would help serve our readers (or help us do better journalism).

The opportunities for making good, useful journalism products are enormous right now, and most journalists are a very long way from seizing them. I really hope that changes!

[Chris Painter @ChrisPainterYup]

Worth reading this in full. I come in skeptical, but this basically is a claim that an AI system at Alibaba attempted autonomous replication.

[Veronica 💫 @vronirwin]

AI is already playing a huge role in this year's midterm elections. To date, AI-focused super PACs have spent more than $9 million on the elections, and we're not even through the first quarter.

That's why @ReadTransformer has created the AI Campaign Finance Tracker.

[Hayden Field @haydenfield]

NEW: When OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal Friday night, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had said it would never do so?

The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't. https://t.co/DkF9uWVHa4

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

You can also support our work here:
https://t.co/Kt7ch3f1rP

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

The Department of War standoff this past week has shown just how much the public needs strong, independent AI reporting. 1/x

[Cillian Crosson @CillianCrosson]

Apply by 8 Mar:
https://t.co/LFfJlOihsS