Eric Neyman

Professional reference class tennis player. I like non-fillet frozen fish, packaged medicaments, and other oily seeds.

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

Love to see Alex prioritizing catastrophic risks!

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

Yesterday, @SenGianaris and the NY Senate passed our Bioterrorism Prevention Act. Once it gets signed, NY will be the first state to require all gene-synthesis providers to screen mail-order DNA, closing a gap Trump left wide open after scrapping Biden's 2023 order.

[Simon Lermen @SimonLermenAI]

Especially damning: pretending to be a "doomer" and using a profile picture similar to @allTheYud and then replying to John Sherman calling for violence.

[Jay Shooster @JayShooster]

If you are an @OpenAI employee, I think one of the most important things you can do right now is encourage @gdb to publicly answer a very simple question:

Why are you spending millions of dollars to defeat Alex Bores?

[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

I agree Congress should act on AI and a lot of the policies discussed are good (many seem inspired by state laws!). I don’t see anything in this article that justifies why preempting the states and highly concentrating enforcement with the feds is necessary for Congress to act.

[Jackson Boaz @jacksonboaz_]

NEW in @Politico this AM:

"Mallory McMorrow is making AI safety a key component of her campaign in Michigan."

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

Illinois joins New York and California at the forefront of sensible AI regulation!

[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.

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

@YafahEdelman @peterwildeford @HaydnBelfield Actually... how long do AIs run in order to complete, say, 16 hour time horizon tasks? I just realized that I have no idea!

[Jesse🔸⏹️ @PoliticalKiwi]

This idea is both funny and also they should just straight up do it. This Alex Bores guy seems really good!

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Great news: the Senate farm bill base text won't include the Save Our Bacon Act, which would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs.

Senate Ag Chair John Boozman said it's too controversial to include. That's thanks to everyone who called and posted about this.

But the fight's not over. Iowa's Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst will likely now try to add the SOB Act to the bill as a committee amendment.

Keep the calls to your senators going: [phone]. Tell them: no farm bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it. We can win this.

Photo credit: WeAnimals.

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

@JKellisonLinn The grant was to align the Pope (to AI safety priorities), not for the Pope to work on alignment research, I believe!

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

I'm hearing that this $11k Survival and Flourishing Fund grant from 2023 was counterfactual to the encyclical!

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

@AlexBores has been targeted by the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir SuperPAC. It's backfiring.

We don't know whether @AlexBores will win the primary in NY-12. He's tied for first in the polls and prediction markets have him around 50-50. If he loses, the Big Tech SuperPAC will claim victory.

But it's important to point out that Alex Bores was third in the polls and at 10% to win when the SuperPAC first targeted him. They wanted to do a kill shot on him to prevent him from ever catching on. The fact that Bores is where he is now is a proof that the Big Tech SuperPAC attacks are backfiring.

[Jay Shooster @JayShooster]

"When Nobel laureates and the smartest minds in computer science are telling us there is a non-negligible chance that AI could lead to human extinction, we must ensure that the most powerful AI systems never escape human control. We cannot wait to act."
- @bradlander

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

@dsavitt @YafahEdelman Do you think 5/6 of the remaining millennium problems are decidable? I'm pretty close to 50/50 on that (but don't know much)!

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I talked with @AlexBores about why the AI industry is spending millions of dollars to defeat him: https://t.co/59FZ6YoUh1

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

I mean, an encyclical is in fact an essay...

[Arjun Narayan @narayanarjun]

What did you think "Amo Dei" meant? Vibes? Essays?

[METR @METR_Evals]

Could an AI company lose control of its own agents? To find out, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI let us (1) test their best internal models with CoT access, (2) review non-public info about capabilities, alignment, and control.

The result: our first Frontier Risk Report.

[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)

[Eric Neyman @ericneyman]

Really impressed with this work: xAI is the least safe of the AI companies that are near the frontier, and it's good to bring their low safety standards to the public eye.

[The Midas Project @TheMidasProj]

SpaceX is about to go public, and inside it now is xAI, a frontier AI lab that ranks behind its peers in every major published assessment of AI safety practices. What does that mean for investors?

Our new report with @GuidelightAI, @EncodeAction, and @LASST_law is out today.