Sam Hiner

UNC ‘25 | Youth Advocacy | Executive Director @ncypalliance
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[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

Remember Zuck’s explicit vision of the future is to “solve loneliness” by replacing human friends with AI relationships.

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

Meta continuing to stand out for their lack of principles. They’re happy to admit that they’ve lied for years about KOSA being untenable for their business the second they see a chance to make more money by keeping their AI sexbots unregulated

https://t.co/DHxNbeoYtp

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

The only thing more powerful in politics than money is votes

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

We are entering a new era where the binding constraint on philanthropic startups is no longer funding.

The scarce factors are good ideas & the talent who can execute on them.

Now is the time for entrepreneurial people to start new organizations that create public goods.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Griffin Li @griffinli_]

@JackKuhr I made an app called Hackney that lets you compare Uber, Lyft, and Empower prices

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

@kenyanmcduffie is this true?

[Zephyr @Zephyr_hg]

@rahulchhabra07 @sabi @khoslaventures @Accel @Initialized @kevinweil staring at a rectangle is not a natural act and we forgot that

[jp @inflammateomnia]

Shut up about grindset if you really wanted to make money you'd be in a dinghy in the strait with a pair of binoculars and fifteen polymarket tabs

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

We wanted to understand how the rising price of gas will affect blue-collar Americans in Midwestern swing states. So we talked to three Ivy-educated podcasters with trust funds at a Le Pain Quotidien in Dupont Circle.

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

Great group of folks filling an important gap in AI policy space

[Alliance for a Better Future @BetterFuture_AI]

It’s time for America to choose: will the most powerful technology in history be used to harm children, enrich the powerful, and risk American lives? Or will we build it with the values that make America great?

We can build AI the American way. We must choose a Better Future.

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

just moved into a wework. adam neumann was right about everything

[josh @eudaemonea]

@SecWar "Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles"

the stance:

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

@OrganizerMemes KOSA is not a surveillance or age gating bill! Big Tech is fueling a lot of anti KOSA misinformation. We can oppose age gating the internet while still wanting tech to be less manipulative. This vid is a bit out of date but is a great explainer. https://t.co/TwD1AFzjiP

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

@deanwball What bills? The closest I’ve seen is age verification for humanlike chatbots for minors.

I prompted Claude with the provisions of one such bill. LLMs can still be kind and interesting without teaching children it’s possible and acceptable to have a relationship with a chatbot.

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

@SnehaRevanur It’s neva been a worse time to be a problem

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

Must read for any young person starting their career

[Sneha @SnehaRevanur]

This could be the best or worst time ever to start a career.

AI is now your coworker, competitor … and maybe even your replacement.

Leaders have been fumbling for words on what’s next. Today, we offer Game Plan, your playbook to prepare for AI. 🧵

[Young People's Alliance @ncypalliance]

So proud of our founders @samhiner and Mick Tobin for making @Forbes 30 Under 30! What began as two friends with a shared passion for civic engagement has grown into a grassroots movement spanning 50 campuses across 5 states and 1,600+ members, all fighting for a better future 🎉

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

Build more housing.

[Steve · Millionaire Habits @SteveOnSpeed]

Everybody complains about housing costs. And yes, they are insanely high.

My question: What’s a solution that would actually work?

[Sam Hiner @samhiner]

@middle_class_us Mass automation from AI is here. We need to rethink what careers look like to give young people a chance of success.