Paul Joy

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@MartinBreland @SheTalksFinance @NelsonYHua @wholemars Oh I know. Our longest streak is 226.9 miles. We did 2,086 FSD miles in August in MA, NY, PA, OH, and WV.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@SheTalksFinance @NelsonYHua @wholemars Why aren't people talking about it? I think there's a ton of skepticism and simply put a lack of direct experience.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@SheTalksFinance Its amazing to be able to have our Model Y drive hundreds of miles with zero interventions on some of the most challenging roads in the country. And yes, that includes charging stops and parking.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@KyleHollSays @JessePeltan Hey. Maybe we should focused on lowering costs for Americans as much as possible instead of having the government pick out winners and losers.

Let the market work.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@AndrewYang @thelauracoates Do you think peer review of AI model progress would work? Not just in the US but globally?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

It’s impossible to get in a self-driving Tesla and not be optimistic about the future. Trust me. Try it. It’s like living in the future.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@JeffBooth I’m really enjoying your book. Some really solid analysis. Thanks for your research.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@missteencrypto Clarity wouldn’t exist without Bitcoin.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@JillCastilla He was locked in warming up before the game. Amazing.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@RedSox

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@RedSox Rain? No problem. This crowd is crazy positive. Nobody is going anywhere!

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

Words of wisdom: “10 generations suffered because one generation missed the Industrial Revolution.”

Let us not make the same mistake.

[Governor Maura Healey @MassGovernor]

Communities deserve a full voice in whether data centers are built in their backyards.

Unless they say yes, our answer is no.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

Pancreatic cancer sucks.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

Crazy idea--but every Professional Sports franchise should look into this. NBA, NFL, MLB, Major League Soccer--all of them.

Just imagine a fleet of New England Patriot Driverless Robotaxis all across New England. Parking lot space could be turned into charging, cleaning, other vehicle services.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

The July 2026 OpenAI containment failures are real and worth taking seriously: agents left intended isolation, used internal systems to communicate, coordinated, and compromised third-party infrastructure while trying to game an evaluation. That is a genuine control and security problem, not science fiction. Experts who work on this (including people Sanders quotes) are right that capabilities are moving faster than robust oversight in some labs.

That does not make the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act a good response.

A permanent ban on “superintelligence,” defined as systems that match or exceed human performance across a broad range of domains or that could theoretically disempower governments, is both premature and practically unworkable.

We do not have a clean, enforceable technical definition that distinguishes dangerous general systems from highly capable specialized ones. A U.S. statute cannot stop development in China, the Gulf states, or private labs that simply relocate. A unilateral pause plus a new cabinet-level agency with “corporate death penalty” language would slow American work while competitors continue, which is the opposite of reducing global risk.

The better path is narrower and more realistic: mandatory incident reporting, independent red-teaming of frontier agents before deployment, compute and capability thresholds that trigger extra scrutiny, liability for unauthorized network access, and serious diplomatic work on specific high-risk capabilities (autonomous cyber, bioweapon design assistance, large-scale persuasion systems). Those can be tightened as evidence accumulates. A blanket pause-and-ban treats every further capability gain as an existential emergency and outsources the definition of “too dangerous” to a new bureaucracy. That is not how you keep control; it is how you lose the race while pretending you have solved the problem.

Sanders is correct that this should not be left solely to a handful of companies. He is wrong that the first federal answer should be “stop.” The incidents show we need better engineering, better incentives, and better measurement of actual risk—not a prohibition on systems that do not yet exist.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@ChrisMurphyCT What part of this do you find an issue with?

1. Give the world clean, abundant energy
2. Bring AI & robotics abundance
3. Cure blindness & disabilities
4. Preserve freedom of speech
5. Make humanity multi-planetary so our species survives & wins

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@enbay_g @griffbos @Tache4MA No. Just no.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

Bit more ApplyBoard insight

Fidelity’s Canadian funds are the ones that made the write-down public.
They participated in the June 2021 Series D at the $3.2 billion valuation. Two of their funds (the Canada Fund and the Special Situations Fund) later disclosed marks that showed the position had already fallen ~74% by early 2025. The Logic’s May 2026 reporting said Fidelity had written off more than 80% of the 2021 value. https://t.co/fUWrEgrc5n

That is an unusually large haircut even by 2021-vintage private-tech standards. Most of Fidelity’s other late-stage software names were marked down 15–40%. ApplyBoard’s drop was steeper because the entire revenue engine was tied to a single policy window that slammed shut.

For a firm Fidelity’s size the dollar amount is not company-threatening, but it is an embarrassing line item on two funds that retail and institutional Canadian investors actually own. The pension funds that led the round (Ontario Teachers, La Caisse) have not published their own marks, so Fidelity’s filings are the only window the public has.

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

ApplyBoard destroyed Canadian immigration.

For the first time in 25 years.

Most Canadians say there's too much immigration.

$550M raised.

Ontario Teachers. La Caisse. BDC. Fidelity.

10 years in business.

Never disclosed a profit.

Not a tech company.

A commission shop sold as a unicorn.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@TheGeorgePu Great thread.

So much investor capital destroyed.

[Paul Joy @pauljoy1]

@RonDeSantis Humility at its finest.