Ryan Hauser

Research Fellow @Mercatus | AI Governance | Studying @STS_VT | ◁▷◁

[Ronnie Chatterji @RonnieChatterji]

We're launching the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange: a new program for external researchers conducting independent research on the economic impacts of AI.

We are looking for rigorous empirical projects on questions that matter for workers, firms, institutions, and the broader economy.

https://t.co/NRjJtlS7eD

[Mercatus Center @mercatus]

We're hiring two Research Fellows to study the future of scientific discovery.

We're looking for rising classical liberal thinkers with deep expertise in science, AI, innovation, technology policy, or related fields who want to develop research, sharpen their public communication skills, and contribute to major policy and cultural debates.

Through mentorship, communications training, and a year-long research project, scholars will explore how institutions, incentives, and governance shape scientific progress.

Learn more + apply: https://t.co/rcGxwASdMN

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

This plan is incompatible with freedom- a global class of planners telling us how long to work, how much we can grow, what we can eat. It is also completely wrong. All advances for climate (including the huge drop in battery and solar and wind costs) have come (and will come) from more innovation, more competition, firms that grow and invent and innovate and produce energy solutions that replace fossil fuels. If you enforce degrowth in the West you will kill for ever the climate agenda.

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

Very well written piece on AI and copyright, and an important trade-off that we should take very seriously. https://t.co/4KNMuIrZGo

[Jenna Russell @jennajrussell]

Using AI for persuasion writing seems to flattens arguments. What is an op-ed if not to take a unique and personal stance? Great work from my labmates @YekyungKim and @YapeiChang!!

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

Michael Richards was inspired to work on his Seinfeld character, Cosmo Kramer, after reading E. F. Schumacher's book, Small is Beautiful.

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

The classic bootlegger/baptist combo... in one move!

"Altman first pitched the concept directly to President Donald Trump in a conversation in early 2025, and has discussed it again with senior administration officials in recent weeks as a way to more broadly distribute the economic benefits of AI to the public, they said."

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

Dominant firms want to be regulated, to become national champions, to trade equity for privilege. We need not indulge them.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

NOTUS is reporting that senior administration officials have held discussions with major AI labs - including OpenAI - about the possibility of those labs giving the government equity stakes by voluntarily ceding shares. The returns from those shares could eventually be directly distributed to American citizens through an AI dividend.

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

Broke: Pentagon Pizza Index 🍕
Woke: FedSpeak 📈
Bespoke: Altman-Amodei Hand Unity Indicator 🤝

[Joshua Teperowski Monrad @jtmonrad]

Nature is healing @sama @DarioAmodei

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

As a loyal NR reader in high school, I'd always flip to @rcbl's column first. This interview is a delight. Self-recommending tbh. 🎧📻

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

Madison's Notes is out with a new episode: "A Divine Comedy."

Host Ryan Shinkel (@RyanShinkel) interviewed Rob Long (@rcbl), the TV writer & producer turned divinity student & future Episcopal priest, to talk about all things Hollywood & holiness.

They discuss the sitcom Cheers, the writer's room, whether art can survive AI, Jerusalem pilgrimages, the nature of humor, a sermon's proper length, if Jesus ever laughed, along with Dick Van Dyke & Michaelangelo, Aristotle & Moliere, P.G. Wodehouse & P.J. O'Rourke, plus much more.

Please enjoy: https://t.co/C4RNqfpYnM

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

Just pulling out this stat to highlight:

“24% of US unicorns have a founder who first came to America as an international student.”

People come to America because it’s the best place to build together. Let’s keep it that way.

[Revana Sharfuddin @R_Sharfuddin_]

I read AI, labor, and tax articles every day, and I’m always searching for words like “optimal taxation” or some public finance benchmark. This one actually covers the basics you’d need before messing with the tax code in the AI era.

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

Nationalizing AI companies is a terrible idea. But if it happens, it's likely to be done slowly and stealthily through procurement rules and other forms of quasi-regulatory co-optation.

This btw is another reason to favor independent verification orgs over direct govt control.

[Mercatus Center @mercatus]

Why hasn’t AI progress slowed down?

In a recent piece responding to a question from writer and podcaster @dwarkesh_sp, Mercatus Research Fellow @elsie_jang argues that new reinforcement learning (RL) environments keep resetting the scaling curve.

Read more: https://t.co/efKN8CWFyZ

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

@R_Sharfuddin_ [Genuinely... but also checks out.]

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

Great to see this progress for Glasswing. Between this and today's EO, we can see the vague contours of a voluntary, cooperative, self-regulatory initiative for powerful AI starting to form.

My hope is that this can remain voluntary, and grow to the point where (a) every lab wants to participate, because the benefits in terms of liability and reputation protection exceed the costs, and (b) start to encompass more than cybersecurity, and help to form credible commitments that reassure Americans AI isn't going to take away their livelihoods or control truth from above.

I wrote about this a while back here:

https://t.co/nJeFacVQcv

[Kevin Bankston @KevinBankston]

I don’t think giving artist’s a monopoly over their “style” is consistent with the Constitution, neither the First Amendment nor Clause 8 in Article I Section 8 that authorizes the limited statutory monopolies that are copyright and patent.

[Ryan Fedasiuk @RyanFedasiuk]

The new AI Executive Order is finally out. It does three big things:

✅ Establishes a 30-day voluntary frontier review process — led by Treasury, DoW, NSA, White House OSTP, and DHS/CISA.

✅ DOJ will prioritize cases in which AI is used for cybercrime.

✅ CISA and OMB will issue Binding Operational Directives within 30 days to expand defensive programming for U.S. government comms & staff up the U.S. Tech Corps.

It’s light on the details of “voluntary review,” and there’s no mention of any safe harbor.

But as a first step, this is a common-sense, light-touch framework designed to get the federal government’s gears in motion.

On frontier capability access, vulnerability discovery for critical infrastructure, and sharing with trusted partners, many questions remain.

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

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