Thomas Chatterton Williams

Writer: @TheAtlantic. Faculty: @BardCollege. Trustee: @AmericanAcademy. Fellow: @GuggFellows, @AEI. Repped by: @APBspeakers, Wylie. 📕 Summer of Our Discontent

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽

[Mariam 🐘 @Gaismair]

Reminder that this was all because Trump was oneshotted in a 15 minute meeting with OpenAI where Trump was mesmerized by the beauty of a GPT poem

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

The reason Republicans are looking at a grim midterms is because the president clearly doesn’t give a damn about the real problems people are facing across the country, across the great political divide.

All he cares about is himself, his money, and his own glorification.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

"I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy."

[Jemima Kelly @jemimajoanna]

Lol, "superior intelligence" is how RFK Jr described Trump's own brilliance at Trump-a-palooza last week. He is even trying to rename AI after himself 🤣

[sdmat @sdmat123]

Anthropic

[roon @tszzl]

for those monitoring the situation this seems to be the official US department of education account doing a dogwhistle about getting rid of some Indian kids attending a UT football game

[Craig Green @GreenCraig5]

@thomaschattwill Im waiting for the change to our country's name

[$ix @SixFinance]

This is why the birth rate is collapsing

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

A high-IQ president speaking about AI

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

What is this incessant compulsion to rename everything???

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

@mikeonthebrink 😂

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

“Post economic”

[Tom Darling @a_darling_tom]

In my recent piece for @RenewalJournal, I wrote about why I think this is a (imv sympathetic) force driving AI denial.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

"honey, you didn't fail your Econ exam, you simply fled Asian educational norms"

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

Classic example of Goldilocks racism. Black Americans are dumb and obviously inferior, but Asian Americans are superior in a way she doesn't like (they try too hard!) There's one group, though, that's juuuuuust right.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

"Godfather of AI" Professor Yoshua Bengio says recursive self-improvement — when AI will be able to create new models without human input — should be illegal. "We shouldn't even engage in this," he says.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

@KeithLevenberg the gold ornaments apparently are from Home Depot though

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

This might be the first cool thing the administration has actually done

[Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin]

New: The White House Rolex, owned quietly by select Trump staffers and cabinet members with enough clout and cash to afford the custom watch—Steve Witkoff and Susie Wiles among them—is one of the most coveted status symbols in Trump’s Washington https://t.co/s3iYFImrdi

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

AI is sapping people’s concentration in a new way—one that abstaining from the technology won’t fix, @thomaschattwill argues: https://t.co/K4bwgNBe5d

[Lawrence Chan @justanotherlaw]

This is crazy. In late July, "three guys with Claude and Codex subscriptions" were able to use Opus 5 to access OAI auth tokens and gain write access to OpenAI's monorepo openai/openai over the course of two days.

https://t.co/DJxFWeIleo