Daniel Cochrane

AI & data governance, Family First Tech @FamStudies; Advisor @Betterfuture_ai ll Formerly, tech policy @Heritage ll views are my own

[Daniel Cochrane @RealDCochrane]

Great conversation with @JOEBOTxyz on why Congress must act now to secure our freedoms from Big AI! Passing @MarshaBlackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would be a promising start!

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

DANIEL COCHRANE: Congress needs to legislate on artificial intelligence. They've needed to for years, they promised to for years, and they failed to for years.

The first principle of an effective national framework must be strong guardrails that actually have teeth.

Senator Marsha Blackburn's TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would do just that.

@RealDCochrane

[Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier]

AG James Uthmeier Launches Lawsuit Against TikTok for Deceiving Parents about the Safety of its Platform and Failure to Comply with Florida's Under 16 Law https://t.co/uzge5HiXXf

[Miranda Nazzaro @mirandanazzaro]

First in @thehill: @MarshaBlackburn is pressing the messaging platform Kik over its dangers to users.

She is accusing the platform of “turning a blind eye” or “allowing” the exploitation and abuse of minors.
https://t.co/zyifOiu1M0

[Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 @JonSchweppe]

I’m sure the JAWBONE Act is fine, but let’s not pretend that Big Tech censorship in 2020 was because of government. It wasn’t. It was almost completely led by ideological employees at private companies.

Also, let’s be honest. FIRE only cares about this because of Jimmy Kimmel 😂

[Joel Thayer @joellthayer]

Let me fix this for you:

CCIA asked for a facial challenge (contradicting what the Supreme Court advised in Moody) on a practical, content-neutral law that imposes a modest burden on trillon dollar companies in an area where states have a traditional constitutional power (disregarding direct precedent in Paxton), and asserted rights of people not before the court (ignoring a Court's inability to grant universal injunctions as explained in Trump v. CASA), and it wants Justice Alito to overturn the Fifth Circuit on that basis.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Russiagate for the billionaire tech crowd

[Eleanor K. Gaetan @EkGaetan]

@NCOSE was at the meeting. I was thrilled to hear: @POTUS wants to see legit child protection legislation pass this year. Guess what was NOT discussed: the House garbage fire called “Kids Act,” opposed by 44 state attorneys general. @BetterFuture_AI @fairplayforkids @A1Policy @Heritage @CWforA

[Emily Jashinsky @emilyjashinsky]

This is going to be cited by Big Tech for years, so let's post for posterity what OpenAI reports on the second-to-last page: "Most of the social media posts we identified generated little or no observable engagement. We found no evidence that the false claims about ChatGPT user data being compromised were amplified by authentic high-reach accounts or beyond the X platform." (Emphasis mine.)

[Daniel Cochrane @RealDCochrane]

@ilex_ulmus Trying to play god is exhausting.

[Charlie Bullock @CharlieBull0ck]

I'm more bullish on GAAIA (the Trahan-Obernolte bill) than a lot of safety types, but one flaw that a lot of people (including me, initially) overlooked is that the whistleblower protection section strips out all of the good stuff that Sen. Grassley's AI Whistleblower Protection Act included. Most notably, the protection for disclosures about "substantial and specific" dangers to public health/public safety/national security.

I talked about why it's necessary to protect that kind of disclosure in my Lawfare whistleblower piece from a year ago, and IMO the hypothetical I used to illustrate the issue has aged pretty well.

[Evan Swarztrauber @SayreEvan]

I spoke with @TBarrabi about Microsoft's new incubator to provide Chinese tech startups with AI tech and gain global market share.

When Microsoft wants something from Washington, it wraps itself in the American flag. But then continues to prioritize market access in China.

[Daniel Cochrane @RealDCochrane]

The smartphone has done more damage to family and culture in just a few short years than leftism achieved in its multi-decade march through the institutions. Its danger is not in corrupting the youth through sophistry (though there’s plenty of that), but in changing the very ecology of human interaction, dulling the mind, and diminishing our capacity for love, marriage, and family life.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

New study: Did the introduction of the iPhone causally reduce fertility?

Yes, by more than 1/3.

New study: https://t.co/KUTyAJxGlJ

[Nick Solheim @NickSolheim]

What are the risks of AI?

What is at risk for average people who are only just beginning to brush up against this innovation? How is it changing the human mind and heart?

Dr. Mark T. Mitchell from @patrickhenrycol thinks about this a lot, and in anticipation of his new book, we sat down to talk about the relationship between people and technology and where God fits into it all.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Fantastic essay by Catholic philosopher Anton Barba-Kay, criticizing pope's AI encyclical. ABK says pope does not recognize the fundamental threat AI poses to the human person, mistakenly thinking it to be a technology like any other. https://t.co/O59C4AsqmG
Excerpt here:

[Daniel Cochrane @RealDCochrane]

@m_wacker Point is the legal mechanism

[Daniel Cochrane @RealDCochrane]

Very important 👇

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. https://t.co/Cn2BvGc4xc

[Rev. Johnnie Moore ن @JohnnieM]

“AI is becoming too powerful & too formative to be treated merely as a technical product. It is a civilizational event. It cannot be left only to engineers, investors and regulators. Theologians, philosophers, educators, pastors, rabbis, civic leaders, & lawmakers must all be part of the conversation.”

[Puck @PuckNews]

With public opinion—and a slew of presidential hopefuls—beating back A.I.’s “no rules” agenda, the lobbyist armies of Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI are suddenly supporting safeguards they rejected just a year ago.

@IKrietzberg has more: https://t.co/IR3pCtdDZr