Julia Scott

Journalist, essayist, editor, podcast entrepreneur, science nerd. Mic and notepad. | Sr. Producer at @HumaneTech_ Tell me a story.

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

Dear America:
Have you considered that the future of human expertise may lie in skills performed by hands AND minds? The students in my latest article are obsessed with the world of work-skills championships. Why? Here's what I learned. https://t.co/zXR59HCA9k @guardian

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

What are you doing this weekend?
I'm seeing THE AI DOC: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, which heavily features my @HumaneTech_ work pals @tristanharris and @aza and we've just released a special preview podcast episode with the film's producers. 🪄 https://t.co/uj52STqKte

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

Overheard at Booksmith SF: "I use real facts, but facts don’t make a story true." -- @Peter_Orner (in conversation with @itsJason)

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

My utterly brilliant, hardworking love @itsJason won a Pulitzer yesterday for EVERY LIVING THING. (Really good book, BTW. You don't need the @PulitzerPrizes to tell you to go get your copy now.) 🏆

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

I have somehow won the Pulitzer Prize.

https://t.co/gPs0eZ6BRH

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

Please enjoy watching @tristanharris blow @jonstewart's mind multiple times.

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

Enjoyed doing this interview with @jonstewart @weeklyshowpod and @ezraklein on the social media fun-house mirror distortion machine.

A.I. will super-charge the harms of social media as it washes over society, unless we change the incentives from maximizing engagement.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Do you have a question for me or @tristanharris? Ask us and we’ll answer it on an upcoming episode of Your Undivided Attention. Just tape a voice memo on your phone and send it to [email protected]. Look forward to hearing your voices! @HumaneTech_

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

Well played, @BooksIncStores

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

PSA: If you're not already subscribed to @Duncande's futurist Substack, it's a great read https://t.co/6VgS4RMBeZ

[Center For Humane Technology @HumaneTech_]

Immigration lawyer @_PMolnar went to borderlands around the world to see how governments were using novel #AI and #surveillance tech in the global refugee crisis. On #YourUndividedAttention, she talks with @tristanharris and @Aza about what she found. https://t.co/EerRn2WjRz

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

Oh NO. This is a huge deal. Such a disappointing move from @Stanford whose students and staff have been menaced by elected lawmakers and their henchmen. Unbelievable.
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
https://t.co/tRWFXSArKo

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

@jersiegel OMG yay Jeremy! 😍

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

The AI safety movement seems to be reaching an inflection point. Glad to have produced this important episode of YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION with @tristanharris @aza and whistleblower William Saunders. @HumaneTech_

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

Yesterday @aza and I were honored to interview William Saunders, who was part of the recent group of OpenAI whistleblowers who came forward. https://t.co/Z0Gx5EVdWT

William worked on safety issues at OpenAI but resigned because he saw the company consistently prioritize growth and market dominance over the safe roll out of AI.

He co-wrote the https://t.co/IlOB0krNSI letter and personally risks losing millions to warn us. The letter was also endorsed by Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell and Geoff Hinton. With the lack of meaningful regulation of AI currently, whistleblowers are one of the few ways society can have early warning to systems that pose risk. We need independent oversight of AI companies, and should explore ways of giving company insiders the right to warn us of the risks that only they can see.

[Sean Michaels @swanmichaels]

If you're a professor doing course-planning for the fall—and you're teaching a unit on literature, AI, tech, poetry, etc etc—i'd be delighted if you considered DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN? all the cool teachers are doing it.

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

@michellelegro @Inc Nice! Happy for you, Michelle

[Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito]

This bookseller has been responsible for my launch and so much more. Kathleen's Caldwell & A Great Good Place For Books Needs Us https://t.co/1buHbUeyxf

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

@thesusanito Donated and sharing!

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

"In order to save life on this planet, we need to stop pretending we can understand it." Brilliant and refreshing talk by @itsJason last night @MrsDsBooks

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

@FitzTheReporter Damn, Joe. I'm so sorry.

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

@GuyMarzorati Oh no