Ethan Sun

Features editor @34st

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There’s a 0.48% chance that AI kills at least 10% of humanity (~830 million people) by 2030.

That’s according to Penn professor Phillip Tetlock, who is using AI to track the probability of AI catastrophe.

https://t.co/tcMyMZE7n3

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@jonah_b These are such great reflections! It is a strange sort of gig work, and one I hadn’t seen covered from the student perspective.

Even if mass layoffs are unlikely in the long term, I’m still curious if some structural unemployment isn’t inevitable. How should students respond?

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@conorfsmith YESSIRRR

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At some point, you’ve probably asked yourself if AI could do your job. Some college students are already training it to do so, and what they gain in quick cash they may lose in job security.

My feature on how young data annotators are contemplating the unemployment of it all:

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For more on Penn Greek Life’s existential crisis, read here: https://t.co/XxrsaWigRR

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For over a year now, the Penn administration has been enforcing a de facto party ban on campus.

Fraternity brothers report increasingly antagonistic meetings with the Office of Fraternity and Student Life, and many are bemoaning the end of the Social Ivy.

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Read about it here: https://t.co/Eyojz67Ptp

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The Cuban regime is intent on sweeping its emigration wave under the rug. Even so, economic crisis and mass disillusionment is prompting another generation of Cubans to flee.

I went to Cuba last month to meet the people who want to get off the island — or for Trump to come in.

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Smokes, Kenn Kweder, a Thursday night at Penn... All synonymous, really.

@ConorfSmith profiled the 75-year-old musician who's been a campus mainstay since the 90s.

A wonderful combination of words that should have you running to read more in @34ST:
https://t.co/DZgA1Rneyc

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An emerging cohort of college-aged effective altruists believe humanity is imperiled and that they're among the only ones trying to save the world — mostly from AI.

More in @34ST from the @Penn EAs on their plan to rescue us all.
https://t.co/sBuPCPFktf

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My GOAT @jasmineni_

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It’s generally understood that @Penn and its student body lean left. But over the past two years, that liberal hegemony has begun to show its cracks.

Killer reportage (as always) from @ethantsun on the state of conservatism on Penn’s campus.

Read now:

https://t.co/HEGH04xORB

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After a slew of conservative speaking events and a rightward shift in club leadership, the University of Pennsylvania’s conservative students are feeling more empowered than ever.

Read my feature on why Penn’s right wing is thriving, and what they’re planning to do next: