Ed Hearst

Former Senior Official @ U.S. Treasury, State, Commerce Dept, House Commerce, FCC. VP @ Astra, BlackBerry, SAP, Sybase. Attorney @ Jones Day. AI, Tech, Gov.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@SwarmAero @HarvardHBS @MITSloan @TechNatSec Thank you for your leadership in providing America and its allies with the most advanced defense technology!

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order tasking us with the development of a national framework for AI, what he called “One Rulebook.” This was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America’s lead in the AI race.

Today we are releasing that framework. It will help parents safeguard their children from online harm, shield communities from higher electric bills, protect our First Amendment rights from AI censorship, and ensure that all Americans benefit from this transformative technology.

We look forward to working with our colleagues in Congress to turn the principles we are announcing today into legislation.

https://t.co/9fwatPYP5M

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@SwarmAero Great work!

[Swarm Aero @SwarmAero]

Big drones can swarm too.

While smaller drones pack smaller punches and require assistance to get to the fight, our large, multimission UAV can cover long distances and defeat high-value targets. When paired with our command and control software, Legion, our UAV swarms can achieve major combat objectives by coordinating with superhuman dexterity while being several times cheaper than traditional aircraft.

Swarm is redefining drone warfare at scale. Read more in this @NextGen_Defense article by Ethan Encarnacion.

https://t.co/ynZaGIuWLs

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@regardthefrost @POTUS @NSF Congratulations Jim!

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

America First doesn’t mean America alone, and @POTUS is the President of Peace.

As trade rebalances and hotspots cool, the peace brought by President Trump is the most bullish force for global markets and prosperity.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

With Zuck’s move to Florida, California’s total taxable wealth from billionaires has plummeted to well under $1T from over $2T just a few weeks ago.

The loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever. All because Gavin Newsom stood motionless as this stupidly written bill, from a fringe union and a handful of socialist academics with an axe to grind, meandered its way into the public conversation without any action from him and freaked everyone out.

These were all people that were paying 13%+ in state income tax every year WITH NO COMPLAINTS UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO.

And now, for the rest of time, the lost tax revenues from these folks will have to be paid for by the middle class because they are the only group left in California large enough that you can tax to fill the hole.

He’s forsaken the middle class instead of managing the budget, managing the deficit, eliminating even a portion of California’s gargantuan waste and abuse. He could have done any of these things at any point over the past 7+ years.

But he was silent.

And now California’s budget will implode and he wants to run for President.

Insane.

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@BrendanCarrFCC Great pic!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@BrendanCarrFCC Very glad to see this is a priority. Protecting against drone attack
Is an important step in protecting our national security, including with respect to valuable military assets .

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@Kemp Great to see Astra as an important part of the space ecosystem!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@Astra Congratulations!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@HarmeetKDhillon Happy Birthday!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@DavidRMalpass Well said!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@Scavino47 Great work by our President! Lower taxes, increased economic growth and jobs, stronger defense and finally a real border. A tremendous victory for the American people.

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@HarmeetKDhillon Great to see.

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@Astra Congratulations!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@BrendanCarrFCC @AAGSlater Congratulations!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@mkratsios47 @POTUS Congratulations!

[Ed Hearst @EdHearst]

@BrendanCarrFCC Fantastic!