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[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

What a surreal pleasure to get to watch my good friend and colleague @Thomas_Woodside give remarks next to @GovPritzker at the SB 315 signing ceremony. First in the nation mandatory 3rd party audits for frontier AI developers are now written in law!

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

As AI becomes more powerful and influential, companies and the government have a responsibility to anticipate, manage, and transparently communicate the risks.

Illinois is proactively embedding safety and accountability at the frontier, not at its tipping point.

[Thomas Woodside 🫜 @Thomas_Woodside]

Nobody fights harder than Alex Bores. Not the outcome I hoped for but I do believe this campaign is just the beginning of a movement that will only grow in the months and years to come. The first campaign of its kind, but not the last.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

Our fight is for Adam Raine, his parents, Maria and Matt; and for every family and every kid.

The consequences of failing to regulate AI aren’t imaginary; they are already here. I’m running for Congress to protect our kids and take on the oligarchs spending millions to take away our power. We can’t let them win.

The Raine family telling the story of Adam makes clear the stakes. I'm humbled by their trust and inspired by their advocacy.

Watch their story—the closing ad of our campaign:

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

I liked @mattyglesias 's comments about @AlexBores

- Bores has a solid track record
- Bores understands AI
- Bores has been targeted by industry and Bores winning will be important for setting a narrative that industry can't succeed at blocking smart AI candidates

[Thomas Woodside 🫜 @Thomas_Woodside]

Anthropic has published a new policy framework for frontier AI. I’m happy to see it! Importantly, it takes seriously the need to sometimes stop AI companies from taking actions that pose a substantial risk of catastrophic harm. There are also some areas where it could be improved.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail.

@IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping.

Signatories include:

- Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI

- Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic

- David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient

- Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe

- Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator

- Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient

- Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience

- Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School

- Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response

- Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI

- Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University

- Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI

- Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army

Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: https://t.co/BwZiJXw3JT

Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so.

Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats.

@deanwball put it well in the WSJ:

“If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Illinois is leading the nation in holding Big Tech accountable.

As AI systems impact people’s lives, we need safeguards in place.

I look forward to signing SB 315 and working with the legislature so that AI, when used, is used responsibly.

[Sue Rezin @SenatorRezin]

Great meeting with @SenEdlyAllen and Steve Wimmer with the Transparency Coalition this morning as we work to get SB 315 across the line.

Senator Edly-Allen’s legislation, which I’m chief cosponsoring, would create the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act.

[Steven Adler @sjgadler]

Some personal news: I've started a new AI safety standards org, and our first two standards are out today.

We're called Guidelight, co-founded with fellow ex-OpenAI safety researcher, Page Hedley. (1/n)

[The Midas Project @TheMidasProj]

https://t.co/TsF28536Ir

[Andrew Gounardes @agounardes]

The first version of the RAISE Act required third party audits of AI frontier labs. But most industry players opposed and ultimately that provision fell out during negotiations.

We always knew it was possible, and I'm glad to see we were right. The fight for AI safety continues.

[Andrew Gounardes @agounardes]

This is actually a big deal. 3rd party audits were a huge industry sticking point against the NY RAISE Act last year. We thought these audits were doable then, and thrilled to see @OpenAI now come around and agree.

Looking forward to passing my 3rd party audit bill in NY next!

[Lionel Levine @lionellevine]

.@RepLoriTrahan I grew up in your district. Everyone I talk to back home is against this.

Replacing state laws by an unspecified federal standard would undermine the sovereignty of Massachusetts and every other state to protect its own citizens from the harms of AI.

[Thomas Woodside 🫜 @Thomas_Woodside]

I'm happy to see OpenAI endorse Illinois SB 315, which includes mandatory third party audits for frontier AI developers. Anthropic also supports the bill.

Momentum for oversight on frontier AI is growing. I'll continue to work to strengthen the legislation and hope it passes.

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

OpenAI is endorsing Illinois bill SB 315, which requires safety reports (similar to laws in California and New York) and third party audits of AI labs.

They say all of their state AI policy work these days is in the effort of creating a "consistent, nationwide framework."

[Kristen Soltis Anderson @KSoltisAnderson]

That trendline on independents is eye-popping...

[Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan_qureshi]

Get involved at https://t.co/DD8xToiwNs.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

perhaps for a moment I can be more direct, look straight into the camera and say to the stewards of the Pro-AI Party Line:

You have resorted to AI slop to make your arguments. That means your views on AI are literally slop. Your. Views. Are. Slop.

Everyone notices this. Those that don’t laugh at you publicly do so privately. Those who care too much to laugh merely sigh at the increasingly morose cocktail parties you fund.

I know social media vibes are not the only thing in this world but stuff like working with this AI content farm, and the broader pattern of behavior that decision is reflective of, does tremendous disservice to the cause of accelerating and diffusing frontier artificial intelligence throughout the American economy.

You began with a simplistic premise, over indexed on SB 1047-era AI politics, that the high-school-clique dichotomy would be the “e/accs” versus the “doomers.” Nobody cares about that premise in the real world. What’s more, you have taken this bad starting thesis and drawn epicycles (ask Grok!) upon epicycles around it, twisting yourself into a pretzel. AI Is So Important That We Must Destroy The Leading AI Company For Refusing To Be Dominated By Leviathan But Also So Unimportant That We Must Never Ever Regulate It Or Discuss Its Novel Risks While We Also Pat Ourselves On The Back For Selling Chips To China. A concept dungeon of your own creation, a jail cell— whose sole warden and key holder is you—whose bars you relentlessly bang on all day long.

Let me summarize that for you: you, the “accelerationists,” are harming AI in most ways that matter, you are making it impossible to hold pro-AI views without seeming a shill, and you are committing political malpractice. Please re-examine your messaging and policy strategy, for the love of God.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Sincerely,
More of a friend than you seem to realize