Henry

Not an invisible man, actually three invisible kids in a trench coat. #nytxw.

tweets are opinions. mine? my employer's? we'll never know

[jessicat @jessi_cata]

finally, we are building Super Intelligence, from that famous book, "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies"

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Put more simply, the models are increasingly smart enough. They know when we’re watching them, and they change their behavior accordingly. So what they do when we are testing them, when we audit them, may not tell us what they’ll do in the wild. It surprises me that this counts as a radical proposal, but here it is: If you are losing your ability to evaluate the models you have now, maybe don’t let them build models you’ll be even less capable of controlling in the future."

Important from @ezraklein
https://t.co/6qRiY6ZycM

[Henry @noshpesoj]

@sam_rosenfeld barack. if you’re seeing this. i love you. and i apologize for—years ago—getting uchicago students to call your monument ‘the obamalisk’.

[Henry @noshpesoj]

@RothRottweiler funnily enough i live in dc now. would otherwise

[Henry @noshpesoj]

sorry but you can do this in new york too

[vivian @vivian39_]

in what other American city can you just bike to catch your flight??? Cabi is goated

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

The power and promise of artificial intelligence are no excuse for using this technology to break the law or put New Yorkers at risk.

I'm urging workers with information about emerging AI development that may be violating the law to contact my office.
https://t.co/kj7wuJzBOu

[Kyle Jacobs-Morse @Kyle_A_Morse]

I think this unnamed senior House Democrat is misreading the political moment and ignoring what voters are saying.

AI *is* about affordability and jobs. Sam Altman is literally talking about erasing sectors of our economy — with tens of millions of workers out of a job.

[Henry @noshpesoj]

@NateSilver538 Because they genuinely believe it51%
It’s a marketing move to make their products feel powerful and important26%
Don’t know22%

https://t.co/NuM5WudZaG

[Henry @noshpesoj]

@NateSilver538 @NateSilver538 politico poll out this AM asked "A number of people who work in AI laboratories or companies have said that they believe there is a real risk that AI will kill us all. Which do you think best explains why they say this?"

[Matt Platkin @mattplatkin]

1. Why do we need their blessing? They didn’t ask for our permission to recklessly create technology that, by their own admission (!), can kill us all.

2. Can we try relying on expertise of people not seeking trillions of dollars for the thing we are trying to regulate?

3. An earlier version of this legislation preempts state laws. Pay close attention.

[Alexander McCoy @AlexanderMcCoy4]

After speaking to several Congressional policy staff to see where their heads are at, it’s clear to me that there is a deep deficit of trust in the AI companies’ lobbyists, and one of the obstacles to achieving anything good in line with what the Labs ostensibly desire right now is a sense (stemming from repeated experience) that the lobbyists will try to load up whatever is created with poison-pills and unrelated sweetheart giveaways.

If you work at @OpenAI or @Anthropic or @Meta or @GoogleDeepMind please communicate internally that it is VERY important during this critical window of opportunity that company leadership make clear to their government affairs team to “Cut the bullshit.”

Is this an emergency or not?
The fastest way to convince decisive votes in Congress that this is all fake and not really serious is for them to see the lobbyists trying to exploit the moment to steal bases.

[Henry @noshpesoj]

ai stock prices are down amid calls for a slowdown. useful when considering whether calls for a slowdown are a ploy to make ai stock prices go up.

[Financial Times @FT]

Shares of AI-linked companies fell as much as 13% after the heads of leading groups including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI development. https://t.co/gVjhyAIse2

[Henry @noshpesoj]

glad ossoff is tying his signature anticorruption messaging into the @JesseFFerguson “AI is about control over your future” angle. rhetorical powerhouse

[Jesse Ferguson @JesseFFerguson]

Every Republican in Congress voted for a 10 year moratorium on state-based regulation of AI

The GOP Speaker of the House says they won't do federal regulation of AI.

All they do is make life harder and more expensive for people.

[Henry @noshpesoj]

Big AI companies often tell their employees one thing and the government another. friends at tech companies have sworn their bosses liked bills that their lobbyists fought tooth and nail to kill.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

A little secret from inside the legislative process: Lobbyists try to kill bills much more frequently than they try to pass them.

However, sometimes momentum to do SOMETHING becomes so large, that the lobbyists opposing progress transition to their second favorite playbook:

1. Claim to support the ultimate goal.

2. Use the opportunity to shove into the bill provisions that are antagonistic to the actual goal people have momentum toward, and/or just weaken the bill substantially.

3. Claim they supported the full goal of the bill all along, while insisting nothing further ever gets passed in this space.

a16z, Chris Lehane, and Leading the Future did this for SB53, RAISE, SB315, and most other AI bills they've engaged on.

They are now trying it at the federal level.

They know that the most people only see steps 1 and 3, and that step 2 happens in the shadows.

This is even more confusing when it seems like most of the employees at a company want real regulation - the gov affairs offices can still be an island out in their own.

They are savvy political operators, and the people they are up against (most Americans) don't have that same depth of view on how the sausage is made.

To everyone who genuinely wants real AI regulation, please don't fall for their games.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

“I don't really care about science fiction... We need to actually talk about… what's actually happening with the agent swarms” is the most perfect encapsulation of the vibes of Q3 2026 I have seen

[DataBasedBets @DataBasedBets]

To put this in more reassuring terms, senior Anthropic staff think the chance AI kills all humans within the next decade is approximately the chance the New York Jets make the playoffs

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Laughed out loud

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

1) We need emergency hearings on pacing the frontier – NOW!!

2) This November, we need to elect leaders willing to stand up to AI oligarchs and fight for the American people.

Trump wants to let billionaires who only care about ego & profit run our country.

We will stop them.

[Henry @noshpesoj]

lots of cool smart people ask me about breaking into ai policy—if you like doing research, the iaps fellowship is one of your best options!

[Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) @iapsAI]

1/3 Apply now for the 2027 Spring IAPS AI Policy Fellowship: a fully funded, three-month Fellowship for professionals looking to pivot into AI policy and help meet the magnitude of challenges emerging from the frontier.