Ben Moskowitz

Turning up the knob on good ideas. Averting marketplace dystopia @ConsumerReports Innovation Lab. Former @theIRC @mozilla.

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

“We’re making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks.” 👀 https://t.co/czZTAIwQYK

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@DynamicWebPaige yeah let's connect! check DMs

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

@DynamicWebPaige love it -- doing something similar at https://t.co/kctoi7Mq0r what are your next steps?

[Ben Brooks @opensauceAI]

Wow. Congress just tabled a bill that would *actually* kill open-source. This is easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI—and it was proposed by the GOP senator who slammed @finkd for Llama.

Here's how it works, and why it's different to anything before it.

[Alejandro Jodorowsky @alejodorowsky]

DIARIO DE ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY:
Lo que damos, florece. Lo que guardamos, se pudre.

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

@JaneOst_ @carlfranzen Correct

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👇🏻

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Democratic Party keeps making the same mistakes.

2016, HRC treated as presumptive nominee.

2020, party hacks coalesce around less popular candidates to stop popular momentum of the Sanders coalition.

2024, essentially no primary.

Healthy primaries make healthy parties.

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Democratic Party keeps making the same mistakes.

2016, HRC treated as presumptive nominee.

2020, party hacks coalesce around less popular candidates to stop popular momentum of the Sanders coalition.

2024, essentially no primary.

Healthy primaries make healthy parties.

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

📢📢 Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is organizing a flagship conference on tech policy. Hear from movers and shakers in government, academia, industry, and civil society. https://t.co/TsaW04WRLP

The conference is for everyone interested in ensuring that technology has a positive impact on society. Learn about how you can make an impact on the development and governance of technology, whether in industry or the public sector. Alumni, affiliates, and friends of @PrincetonCITP will reflect on their careers and share advice, while current CITP scholars will present their research that has contributed to ongoing debates on topics including AI, social media, and cybersecurity.

Register for in-person attendance: https://t.co/XksvmQFycF
(Livestream will be available on the conference webpage.)

Panel 1: The Opportunity Ahead – 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Why does tech policy matter? Which areas are most important today, and how might this change over the next decade? Panelists will discuss and help shape the agenda for tech policy. Can policy keep up given rapid changes in technology? How can you help? What is the role of U.S. policy in the global arena?

Lightning talks – 11:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Lunch and networking – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.

Keynote – 1:45 to 2:30 p.m.
Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission

Panel 2: Theories of Change – 2:30 to 4 p.m.
How does tech policy change happen? How can diverse career paths contribute to it, including academia, industry, civil society, government, and more? Panelists will reflect on their own careers and share advice for those entering the field.

Reception and networking – 4:05 to 5 p.m.

Speakers include:

Alondra Nelson (@alondra ), Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM), CEO, New America
Arvind Narayanan, Director, CITP and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Chloé Bakalar (@cbakalar), Chief Ethicist, Meta
David Robinson (@dgrobinson), Head of Policy Planning, OpenAI
Ed Felten (@EdFelten ), Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs; Emeritus, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the Founding Director of CITP
Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg), CEO and Founder, DuckDuckGo
Jennifer Rexford (@jrexnet), Provost, Professor of Computer Science, and Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Princeton University
Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel ), Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission
Pablo Chavez (@pablochavez ), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
Paul Ohm (@paulohm ), Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

@allafarce Axelrod too.

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Meeeeeeeanwhile

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

Xi Jinping has stressed improving the systems for exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party. Xi made the remarks on Thursday while presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. https://t.co/u2Uklilcrk

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Likely path: shambling to November

Happy path: messy open convention birthing an energetic coalition reflecting popular will

Sad path: a bunch of consultants & technocrats in smoky room concocting “plan B”

Anything but #3. Party hacks are root cause of the current predicament

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Democratic Party keeps making the same mistakes.

2016, HRC treated as presumptive nominee.

2020, party hacks coalesce around less popular candidates to stop popular momentum of the Sanders coalition.

2024, essentially no primary.

Healthy primaries make healthy parties.

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

real healthy democracy, guys

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Imagine it’s an alternate universe where we host presidential debates, but they’re more like they were in the 1960s — long form, substantive conversations.

Both candidates are competent.

What q’s are our enlightened debate moderators asking?

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

@DanDotLewis Love it

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Presidential debates suck. Let’s imagine they didn’t.

What’s 1 question you wish moderators would ask in this week’s Biden v. Trump matchup?

Assume candidates aren’t limited to 30 sec canned responses & that both are capable of substantive exchange on philosophy & policy.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Better-than-human levels of persuasion, plus ad supported LLMs, has implications we are going to want to think through.

Example: Vendy, a little GPT that knows that the solution to any problem is probably buying a refreshing lemonade, and is here to help: https://t.co/GfDZK0ZX2p

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) https://t.co/QBfD8Z8YWp

[Ben Moskowitz @benrito]

Proud that our work is recognized by Fast Company — we're a "Most Innovative Company" for giving consumers the power to protect their data!

https://t.co/qOGCHD97nZ