David Sacks predicts Democrats will use AI legislation and frontier-model approvals to create a surveillance and censorship state 'turbocharged by superintelligence'
“It’s 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don’t think you have to speculate too much to understand where it’s going.
“I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean, that’s ultimately the end state.
“How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that. The regulators give their notes on it. You can’t get a model released unless you address their concerns.
“And their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about, like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID. How quickly we forget all of this.
“They’re going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI, and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about superintelligence here. So I do believe that that is the regime that we’re headed towards.”
Agents now make up the majority of web traffic, write more than half of new articles published online, and generate most of the code pushed to production.
This is what the early stage of a platform shift looks like: adoption is measurable, but the business models it enables mostly aren’t visible yet.
Welcome to the agent economy.
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The same people freaking out about data centers were fine covering the entire fucking Midwest with hideous windmills that do jack shit to help the grid.
A “permanent partnership”, you say.
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
-President George Washington
Any portion. Yes even that portion.
Google DeepMind says it has mathematically proven key security properties of the machine code behind Signal. Not the design on paper. The compiled code.
DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli calls it the first time the production code of a widely deployed protocol has been formally verified, "by any method, with or without AI," and at this depth.
• The proofs cover Signal's post-quantum PQXDH handshake and the Triple Ratchet
• Properties proven: forward secrecy, authentication, post-compromise security and handshake secrecy
• AI agents wrote the Lean proofs
• Human experts reviewed every specification before any proof ran
Formal verification is extremely complex and time consuming, which is why most software never gets it. DeepMind's pitch is that AI can change that.
If that holds, the bar for privacy tools moves. Proof instead of promises.
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David Sacks says Democrats want to rebuild the COVID censorship regime with superintelligence.
@DavidSacks “I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by super intelligence.”
“They’re gonna basically reenact that whole regime again using AI and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about super intelligence here.”