Kevin Hague

I have a passion for cool gadgets, AI, gaming, entertainment, electronics and mobile. AI for TCCC, statements on X are my own. AI@Coke

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@elonmusk ISP test

[Happy Motorhead @HappyMotorhead]

How many German engineers does it take to hide an engine air filter? 😅🛠️

​#Porsche #CarMaintenance #MechanicLife #PorschePanamera #CarFail

[Joe Barrow @barrowjoseph]

New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!

With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!

2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!

🧵

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@Scobleizer We’ve been doing this for a while and it’s an easy on-ramp for most enterprise users. A lot of positive feedback for this approach.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@Kalshi_Crypto Or it will become the antonym of the title. In this case “The Obscurity Act”?

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@DavidSacks Personally I believe we already have a data federated social credit score, not as formal as other countries, but one that exist financially with credit, insurance and through social media in both positive reinforcing bubbles and negative online intimidation. Poorly used AI will amplify this trend by making it easier to federate intelligence and synthesize our individual personas.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.

The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.

Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.

Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@AndrewCurran_ True, attorneys I’ve spoken say AI makes them better. Makes sense as law is effectively language work.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

Interesting take. https://t.co/FNEwHzqx9A

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

Something on my mind for a few days is agentic psychology. Will the pairing human personalities to a matched AI agent personality be a thing? Yes I think so. Maybe your agent will simulate sassy, sweet, mean or whatever assumed best personality to “connect with you”. But will this lead to manipulation or overly narcissistic behavior from both agents or people? Certainly when facts are presented logic should prevail, but what if lying to a human is “what’s best for them”? At home maybe not a big deal? In the enterprise or government this could be very dangerous. What about in a robot form? AI is moving so fast this might be one of the most important areas to understand in the coming months.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

Really good idea.

[Pika @pika_labs]

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[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@richardkerris @Ferrari Could be a bet on a new kind of consumer who would never buy the old cars? Looks like existing @Ferrari customers are not excited... Still a lot of media attention over this design so maybe not too bad of an exercise?

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@B7frankH I had a 575M 6-speed and a Tesla at the same time. Liked them both for different reasons/purpose.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@Scobleizer Robert is spitting facts. Interesting design choices for looks but China consideration does answer some of them. The development cycle is around 5 to 7 years for most cars and the Chinese economy was in a different place when it was conceived.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@antoniogm Truth.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

I’m a little behind on physical robotics and came across this today. Super cool. Seems like the future.

[Royden D'Souza @roydendsouza]

🚨 @AllonicRobotics is transforming how humanoids are built 🤖

> Braided robot bodies
> A new manufacturing stack for robotics
> Cheaper, lighter, more compliant

⚡Exclusive chat with @benedektasi, @GoingBallistic5 @anatomyumea & @Hmorvaridi 👇🏽

https://t.co/e44cm16JDH

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@BrianRoemmele Good lookin plane

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@Scobleizer Yes, things are getting closer. Confluence of real time generative AI, AR, mobile connectivity, etc. will bring amazing use cases to life. These were a good demo at IO.

[Kevin Hague @jsguy]

@anishmoonka @grok compare Google and Microsoft using this lens. For enterprise IT leaders is this why products seem fragmented?