John Stewart

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

What Is To Be Done?

I propose a simple plan:

Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due to incorrect claims of AI risk. This will maximize the technological and societal payoff from the amazing capabilities of these companies, which are jewels of modern capitalism.

Startup AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can. They should neither confront government-granted protection of big companies, nor should they receive government assistance. They should simply be allowed to compete. If and as startups don’t succeed, their presence in the market will also continuously motivate big companies to be their best – our economies and societies win either way.

Open source AI should be allowed to freely proliferate and compete with both big AI companies and startups. There should be no regulatory barriers to open source whatsoever. Even when open source does not beat companies, its widespread availability is a boon to students all over the world who want to learn how to build and use AI to become part of the technological future, and will ensure that AI is available to everyone who can benefit from it no matter who they are or how much money they have.

To offset the risk of bad people doing bad things with AI, governments working in partnership with the private sector should vigorously engage in each area of potential risk to use AI to maximize society’s defensive capabilities. This shouldn’t be limited to AI-enabled risks but also more general problems such as malnutrition, disease, and climate. AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for solving problems, and we should embrace it as such.

To prevent the risk of China achieving global AI dominance, we should use the full power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose.

And that is how we use AI to save the world.

It’s time to build.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

"No matter how high quality your tokens are, they cannot turn lead into gold."

Pleasantly unhinged and overall correct: https://t.co/MZ3GiIM0Vz

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

-- Summer, before it dries up --

🐚Midjourney: --sref 291713781 4207017330 --exp 30 --sw 300 --s 200 --hd --preview

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

Structural failure this morning in Miami.

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

R.I.P. Ace

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

Among My Other Selves
24x18 Oil on Linen
by @KatayounStewart

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

Reality is not computation any more than it was the calculus of a mechanical clock centuries ago. Let’s not confuse our technology with what our universe is, it’s a surefire way to close the future by stifling our ability to see beyond the dogmas of our time. https://t.co/l3UBqQyDQc

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.

@naval

[trey gunn @treygunn]

We are very happy to announce the official live release from 3Below, now on pre-sale. "Live in Mérida" #michaelmanring @treygunn #treygunn #alonsoarreola #emmanuelpina #3below

https://t.co/M3sq2IqW7K

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

The badge path seems less challenging than it used to be.

[Robin Sharma @RobinSharma]

I wish you a great day of your life. Share this with someone special. Love, Robin

[7D Media @7DMediaMusic]

7D artist Daniel Reyes Llinás will be performing solo and ensemble sets in NYC, NJ, Paris, and Anchorage throughout September.

For info and details, visit: https://t.co/Kdo45WO7WX

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

Our universe is constructing itself: only when it constructs entities like us capable of questioning the reality that generated us does the universe get locally confused and think it needed something outside itself to design it all

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

"I have a foreboding of an America... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."

— Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World" (1995)

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

I'm so happy to share that my debut book, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, comes out August 6th, 2024 from @riverheadbooks! Read more about it here: https://t.co/XpS1zXJjtU

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

"I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. - God"
#miami

[John Stewart @johnstewart]

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
Dance in Heat II, 2020
@pamm

[trey gunn @treygunn]

New Tu-Ner track up at:

https://t.co/ghQKWRwlti