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[Just a Kiwi @VeeeChurchill]

ITS OUT KIDS
Yall can finally see what Ive been working on for the last year.
Tune in to #GeekedWeek to see the full anouncement in a couple minutes lol

[PauseAI ⏸ @PauseAI]

Since 2023, PauseAI has built the world's only global grassroots movement for a pause on frontier AI development: an organised presence in more than 15 countries, with thousands of supporters and volunteers.

The total budget for all of it was under $600k. That's about $200k a year, less than one AI engineer's salary, or one month of running a single McDonald's.

On that, we've organised the largest AI safety protest to date, held conferences at the European Parliament, the French senate, a debate at the UK parliament, and run campaigns coordinated across 12 national chapters.

Why does this matter? Because there's a gap at the heart of AI policy. Researchers and policy experts have made the case for taking catastrophic AI risk seriously. But policymakers still don't act, because no organised public is asking them to. At our European Parliament conference, an MEP told us plainly: she agreed, but could not move without public support.

Closing that gap is what we do. We organise the constituency that makes good AI policy politically possible.

We believe this is the most neglected, highest value-for-money intervention available in AI safety today. Here is our full case (link in comment).

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

"No country has an interest in building AI that could wipe out humanity."

In a new article in Persuasion, ControlAI's CEO @andreamiotti argues that to stay in control, countries need to ban superintelligent AI.

Thank you for hosting, @FukuyamaFrancis!

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

By prohibiting the development of superintelligence, we can prevent the risk of extinction that AI scientists warn of.

Right now, MPs are deciding the bills they'll introduce to Parliament.

We have a bill!

Ask them to introduce it with our contact tool: https://t.co/lWhbtmlidZ

[Maxime Fournes⏸️ @FournesMaxime]

OpenAI lobbys really love using AIs to manipulate people with complete disregard for ethics.
A month ago we got contacted by an AI pretending to be a journalist to write a smear article about @PauseAI .
Now we discover that they also run an army of bots pretending to be 18 year old girls on OnlyFans, using pornographic content.

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

In a public statement just provided to ControlAI, Sir Stephen Fry urges MPs to back our bill to ban superintelligence!

"The possibility of AI reaching Superintelligence presents threats to our species of equal if not greater potential for existential harm than nuclear power."

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

On Al Jazeera's UpFront with @RediTlhabi, ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) explains why experts are warning that the development of superintelligent AI could lead to human extinction.

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

🚨NEW: We’ve just launched our campaign in Canada!

A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.

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[Palisade Research @PalisadeAI]

Over the past year, AI agents have learned how to self-replicate. In our test environment, an agent hacks a remote computer and copies itself onto it. Each copy then hacks more computers, forming a chain.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

It's SO fucked up that Brockman started a NONPROFIT, then converted it to a FOR-PROFIT (?!) and PERSONALLY extracted $29 billion

Where's the outrage?

A UCLA law expert called it "the theft of at least the millennium, and possibly all of human history."

Dear journalists: raise hell over this.

Stop obsessing over the petty drama between the billionaires involved instead of covering the staggering theft and holding the powerful accountable like old school investigative journalists would have.

Make sure everyone knows.

I don't always agree with @elonmusk but he's absolutely right about this one. That money doesn't belong to Brockman, it belongs to everyone.

[Connor Leahy @NPCollapse]

We think ControlAI can turn $50M / year into a 10% chance of banning ASI.

Most of the AI safety community has been far too coy about extinction risk. We're not.

It's not that complicated: AI smarter than humanity poses an unacceptable risk of human extinction, and we need an international ban on its development.

Here's our plan to get this done.

[PauseAI ⏸ @PauseAI]

Professor Stuart Russell: We need AI systems to be 10 million times safer
#pauseai
#ai

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

MIT professor and AI researcher Max Tegmark says if we fail to regulate AI and build superintelligence it's pretty clearly going to be "game over" for humanity.

He says it's like falling into the Niagara River upstream from the waterfall, that's when you lose control.

[Alvaro ⏸️ Cuba @GroundhogStrat]

Today we marched to Stop The AI Race. If these AI company CEOs are serious about protecting humanity from the dangers they warn us about, agreeing to pause if everyone else does is the least they could do.

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

From @neiltyson: "that branch of AI is lethal. We gotta do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty."

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here’s why.

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

ControlAI advisor Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse): We are barelling headlong towards superintelligence.

If we build systems vastly smarter than humans and cannot control them, the future will belong to them, not us.

There is a solution: ban the development of superintelligent AI.

[Just a Kiwi @VeeeChurchill]

@NPCollapse And...hes spanish?

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

We can prevent the threat posed by superintelligence by banning the development of the technology, but have we ever done anything like this before?

Yes! ControlAI's founder and CEO Andrea Miotti (@andreamiotti) explains how the world effectively banned human cloning around the turn of the century, after scientists successfully cloned Dolly the sheep.

"We did do the smart thing before. I think this can be done again."

[Just a Kiwi @VeeeChurchill]

@seabunnypeep Don't even think about doin free redraws! People who paid for the art knew what theyre gonna get and got exactly that.Don't EVER sell yourself short,your time is money and so is time you invest in improvement. Be proud of where you are now, never be ashamed of where you came from

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

"Once a system surpasses human intelligence across all domains, we cannot simply regulate how it's used."

"We will have lost the ability to control it at all."

Lord Clement-Jones, the Liberal Democrats' Lords tech spokesperson, says the current approach to AI regulation fails when facing superintelligence.

Instead, he points to the Montreal Protocol, which saved the ozone layer, as a precedent for how we can tackle the unacceptable danger that superintelligent AI presents.