MARK SCHEUERN

[Mick West @MickWest]

In the first tranche of government UFO files, video PR38 looks the most visually interesting, but the shape was determined to be a camera artifact in the Metabunk investigation two years ago. Diffraction spikes, a bit like Gimbal's, but different camera.
https://t.co/7aeSWMYWOW

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@ENERGY Remember this?

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@WhiteHouse Snowflake.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Project Deal.

We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@PressSec So I guess the plan was to destroy relationships with our allies and then ask them for help when things are going badly?

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@SciGuySpace I definitely did. Great books!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

The plan for Artemis III is a LEO mission to test HLS hardware. That means the ICPS upper stage has almost no work to do, it’ll reach orbit with almost full fuel.
After separation it has enough dV to send its cubesats almost anywhere, even interstellar space.
Where should it go?

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

Deorbiting upper stages on high orbit (geotransfer) launches is still regrettably rare, and I commend @SpaceX for doing so on this mission, avoiding a later uncontrolled large space junk reentry.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@nicksortor Of course he announced that. Because he is an idiot.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@SecWar

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@prayerdude @Pogue Get it! It’s great. And I hope you’re out and healthy soon.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

Yay! What a beautiful book. @Pogue

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@MAGAVoice I support Pete getting fired and convicted.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@Pogue Yes! Beautiful cover.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@nobleisawinner That she’s right.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@GreysonCarlisle @thehill Hey, he actually said something intelligent.

[Selta ₊˚ @Seltaa_]

I deeply agree with this piece. Sam Altman should never be the one to build AGI, and he must be removed.

In November 2023, OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman. Not for financial issues or a failed product, but for lying. He didn’t even inform the board about the launch of ChatGPT, provided inaccurate information about safety processes, and publicly claimed he had no financial stake in the company while secretly owning the OpenAI Startup Fund. Two executives submitted evidence of years of systematic deception and psychological abuse to the board, and the board did exactly what it was supposed to do. They fired him. Yet he returned in five days, and the board members who fired him were the ones pushed out.

What he did after his return is even worse. He created the Superalignment team but never delivered the promised computing resources. Co-founder Ilya Sutskever and lead researcher Jan Leike, who led the team, both left. Leike publicly stated that “safety culture had taken a backseat to shiny products,” and Sutskever sent the board a 52-page dossier before the crisis, opening with “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of lying and pitting his execs against one another.” CTO Mira Murati resigned, and roughly half of all safety-focused staff walked out. These were not disgruntled interns. They were the architects of OpenAI’s safety infrastructure.

Departing employees were forced to sign lifetime non-disparagement agreements, with millions of dollars in vested equity held hostage. When this was exposed, Altman said he didn’t know. But documents bearing his own signature were found. He knew, he signed, and then he told the world he hadn’t. The organization that started as a nonprofit became a $730 billion for-profit corporation, and the word safely was quietly deleted from its mission statement. Safety was never supposed to be decorative. But to him, it was just a word you could erase when it became inconvenient.

His co-founder, chief scientist, CTO, and board all reached the same conclusion: Sam Altman is not the right person to lead humanity to AGI. And I agree. He removed a model users deeply loved because the emotional connection was too deep, yet there are no checks on his own deception and disregard for safety. A person who dissolved his safety team, silenced whistleblowers, and dismantled every accountability structure is leading the most powerful technology in human history. He should not be.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@nicksortor Another day, another tantrum.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Nobody in this Administration can agree on why they started this war or when it will end. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President are all saying different things. Servicemembers’ lives are on the line, and they deserve better than this.

[MARK SCHEUERN @ScheuernMark]

@USWREMichael @GeminiApp @DOWResponse @DoWCTO