civil liberation for dogs

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

3/4 of the ICLR (top ML conference) submissions I'm reviewing this year were mostly written by Claude. Reading them is like trying to make sense of the diaries of a person in the grips of OCD and psychosis. Minutiae of evidence leading to ambiguous or contradictory conclusions.

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

Frontier AI labs shouldn't get to decide for themselves what’s safe for the public — or drain our water and power grids.

​We need to actually regulate AI by creating a federal AI regulatory agency independent of the executive branch and a moratorium on new data center construction.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

So Sirota raised a stink and @MajorityDems let their guys in.
And now the day before the conference, our guy has been kicked out. I guess we're scarier!

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

I voted! NO on Mass. ballot questions 3, 5, and 8!

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

@aarondmiller2 Yes can you think of word that describes two sets of laws for two groups of people based on ethnic or racial designation? Perhaps a commonly understood Afrikaans word meaning “separate”

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

The draft bill requires LLM developers to submit risk reports, security test results, and safety frameworks to the Dept. of Commerce. However, it creates a statutory exemption shielding all submitted info from FOIA requests, which would limit the public's ability to verify the effectiveness of gov't oversight.

[civil liberation for dogs @oppoulos]

I feel a humanitarian obligation to overfeed my outdoor cat because if I don't she will go out and kill a poor animal.

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

It's underreported that @RepAuchincloss went on an apology tour to six temples after voting for the Massie Amendment to zero out military transfers to Israel. He falsely claimed the vote was about Iran — he voted for it because he was facing a primary challenge. The day after the primary, he was the only member of the Mass. delegation to vote with Republicans to pull federal aid to universities not sufficiently cooperative with Israel.
https://t.co/rNjK2rfcXt

[Nomiki - @nomiki.bsky.social @NomikiKonst]

Just want to note that yes, there are progressive Greek Americans.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Looks like @RepAuchincloss does have a highly qualified (for the district) and interesting challenger but he has raised almost no money and Auchincloss has an infinite amount. Poulos has criticized Auchincloss for taking AIPAC money and sending weapons to Israel, and for consistently voting to expand surveillance authorities and increase military spending. Primary is September though so the money situation could change.

From Fig City News:

Poulos grew up in Sherborn, attended Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, and went to UMass Amherst on a Pell Grant before earning a PhD in political science and computational science at UC Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he worked on predicting diabetes treatment outcomes using AI methods. Most recently, he worked as a contract specialist for Scale AI, contributing to benchmark projects that evaluate frontier AI models, including one published in Nature and another presented at ICLR, a top AI conference.

His platform centers on what he describes as the interconnected consequences of AI-driven automation: Medicare for All to decouple health insurance from employment, universal basic income to provide an income floor, strengthened collective bargaining rights through the PRO Act, and corporate taxes on automation to fund these programs.

[flopshua @PoshhJoshh]

@wideofthepost @MajorityDems If anyone is curious, Rep. Auchincloss has a primary challenger. I personally find Auchincloss's disqualifying @jasonvpoulos

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

NEWS BULLETIN.

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

"Jason Poulos, an AI researcher from Sherborn challenging Congressman Jake Auchincloss in the September 1 Democratic primary for the MA-4 seat which represents Newton, says artificial intelligence is already displacing workers and Congress isn’t doing enough about it.

'We need large structural changes to create a floor for workers,' Poulos said in a Fig City News podcast interview. He pointed to Oracle’s recent layoffs of tens of thousands of employees as the company redirected resources toward AI data centers. Poulos stated that Oracle has said 'it’s because human labor is no longer as valuable to us, we want to invest our resources in AI data centers.'” @figcitynews

https://t.co/syv4afhEYN

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

We are the first candidate on the ballot for MA-4! Join our grassroots campaign for Medicare-for-all, getting big money out of politics, ending the wars and bringing the money back to our communities.

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

"'We need robust, progressive legislation to account for persistent double-digit unemployment,' Poulos said. 'It’s really important that we have health insurance available to everybody in this country, and that’s particularly important in an economy where AI is displacing more and more people.

While Poulos is focused on helping as many people as possible, he believes AI poses the largest danger to young people, framing his campaign as a 'youth revolt.'

'The policy aspect is focused on the universal, and that’s important to me,' Poulos said. 'But in terms of young people, I think it’s particularly important [to advocate for them] because I think young people are going to bear the brunt of this economy in which AI is displacing jobs.'" @bcheights

https://t.co/uMyDPLSxxp

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

"Poulos has taken a more direct approach against the incumbent, with his campaign criticizing what it describes as Auchincloss’s disingenuous and flippant politics on issues like the Iran War.

In public statements, Auchincloss has condemned the Trump administration for failing to obtain Congressional approval before the start of hostilities and decried an incoherent strategy for the conflict, lacking long-term goals.

Auchincloss, however, has not offered a clear position on his support for the conflict at large or attempts at regime change in the Islamic nation." @bcheights

https://t.co/XNxbXAOqyD

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

"Poulos has also made overturning Citizens United and reducing the role of money in politics central to his candidacy, arguing that 'we’re seeing a new kind of oligarchy, where money from industries like AI, crypto, and pharmaceutical companies is shaping policy.'

That influence extends to Auchincloss, Poulos said, pointing to the congressman’s positions on drug pricing and foreign policy, which he argues align with his donors’ interests. Publicly available data compiled by OpenSecrets shows that between 2019 and 2024, Auchincloss received $400,322 from pharmaceutical and health companies and $547,380 from Pro-Israel groups."

https://t.co/OIXte1TK4a

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

Glad to see that taking Palantir money is increasingly becoming toxic.

Someone should tell Dan Koh and Jake Auchincloss.

https://t.co/Kw2KXCyD4e

[Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos]

@NoLabelsOrg Should we give Iran defensive weapons to protect its civilians from being hit by missiles?