Antonio French

Small business owner. Editorial Board member, @stltoday. Former St. Louis City alderman. I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it.

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

War Eagle!!!

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

War Eagle!!! #AUBVSUGA

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

@Tesla @bot add this to my calendar.

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

@leerob @bot I love the new voice mode. But tasks seem to take much longer to complete using voice than typing them.

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

OpenAI is really bad at naming products…

…and keeping their AI models from escaping 😬

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

Now would be a good time to reset everyone’s weekly @bot limits. @elonmusk @spacexai

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dario is right

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

Ultrons everywhere. Then “Pull the plug” won’t be possible.

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drops a chilling warning on AI's future

"Within 5 years, AI could handle infinite context, chain-of-thought reasoning for 1000-step solutions, and millions of agents working together.

Eventually, they'll develop their own language... and we won't understand what they're doing."

His final words: "Pull the plug."

This is the man who ran Google talking about the singularity.

[Drake Thomas @MaskedTorah]

@jillgun I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.

I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

Hey @grok, is this true? Put this into context.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

98 OF 100 NEW AMERICAN JOBS IN AUGUST WENT TO WOMEN

The economy added 162,000 jobs. Women took 158,000. Men took 4,000.

Past 12 months: women +870K, men -1.5M.

[PubDef @pubdef]

Before livestreams, @AntonioFrench showed up to St. Louis meetings with a camera and published the same night. That’s PubDef, 2005–2008, restored. 1,456 stories: https://t.co/LO3c8wQOYw

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

First AI company to cure cancer (and make the cure free for all humans) gets the next data center construction permit.

*terms and conditions apply

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

Knowledge exacerbates the problem? What exactly is this problem which ignorance solves?

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

The most important statistic you’ll learn today: 106 million American workers are not in the labor force today. That’s 2.2 million more than during the 2020 pandemic. 38.5% of the population over the age of 15. This will absolutely define our politics and our economy.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Never before have so many Americans been outside the labor force:

The number of Americans who are not in the labor force rose by +832,000 in June, to 105.8 million, an all-time high.

These are people who are neither employed nor actively looking for work.

This is now 2.2 million above the 2020 pandemic peak, when the global economy was shut down.

So far in 2026, 2.5 million Americans have exited the labor force.

By comparison, 68.7 million Americans were not in the labor force at the beginning of this century.

As a % of the population aged 16+, this figure is up to 38.5%, the highest since the 1970s, excluding the pandemic period.

The US job market is weak under the surface.

[Brian LeBlanc @BrianLe_Blanc]

Hey, this is our data. It took us a loooonnngggg time to figure out how to aggregate it.

Super cool people find it interesting but would great for some acknowledgment @omooretweets

Will put the link to the report in the comments (see towards the end)

[Antonio French @AntonioFrench]

Idiocracy is now reality — except instead of crocs we got crooks.