tim buckley ⏸️

Stop AI frontier development. We are building something we won't be able to control.

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

Twitter replies are full of folks who think we should just give up and die rather than try to stop AI. The defeatism is almost funny, in light of recent events.

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@EliNorthrup @MarkRuffalo Save people from homelessness by increasing housing abundance. Don't "save" a building from destruction whose owners don't want it. It makes no sense.

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@Meech_Ward If you control for age of startup (since it’s newer ones that will tend to have higher percentage of AI written code compared with a legacy company), I suspect a flat or even positive relationship

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@JesseTayRiver Apologies if this is a stupid question, but you're sure those aren't ventless washer/dryer combos, right? My ventless dryer looks just like one of those.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth. https://t.co/dB5VEOCjIb

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

"just because we can’t save every child’s life doesn’t mean we should save none of them." This @NickKristof column on the harms caused by @elonmusk is so simple, so understated, yet so powerful https://t.co/I06B6hFP1O

[Crooked Media @CrookedMedia]

Share this so Elon Musk can’t pretend kids didn’t die when he destroyed USAID.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

1) This isn’t true! USAID was seen as a massive W for the US with libs even crediting Bush for PEPFAR

2) it’s dumb to form your views by looking for hypocrisy in other people’s. If someone was wrong before and right now that shouldn’t change whether you think the underlying arguments are good or bad. at most you can decide someone is untrustworthy

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@daniel_271828 @adamkovac How do you figure? Is there evidence for this?

Both for and against spend raises the awareness people have for a candidate, but it's much easier to negatively polarize the electorate against a candidate (to make them distrusted) than the reverse.

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@AlexBores Thank you Alex for your effort! I think they will not be in vain. I hope Micah Lasher and others in Congress can take on the fight.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

This campaign may be over, but the battles we took on are just beginning.

Thank you, New York. Onward.

[Jay Shooster @JayShooster]

Friends, today may be one of the most important elections of our lives.

Last August, two of Trump's largest donors made a bet.

They announced the formation of one of the largest Super PACs in U.S. history: a 100-million-dollar gun pointed at the heads of any politician who might dare to regulate the AI industry.

Their first target: @AlexBores, the author of one of the first AI safety laws in the country.

Why? Because in their own words: "he wants Albany bureaucrats regulating AI."

Listen carefully, they're not just opposed to his specific bill. They are opposed to any state regulation of AI at all.

So far, Alex is the *only* candidate in the country this Super PAC has opposed. They've spent almost $10 million dollars to make an example out of him. They believe that if they can take Alex down, no elected official will be brave enough to try to stop them.

We cannot let them succeed.

I think AI poses the gravest threat to democracy in our country today, aside from Donald Trump. Unprecedented concentration of wealth and power stand to make it easier than ever for a small group of tyrants to exert more and more control over the public.

The alignment between AI industry billionaires and the Trump administration makes for a particularly dangerous combination.

Today's Congressional election in NY-12 is a chance for us to stop them in their tracks.

If Alex Bores wins, it will send shockwaves through U.S. politics. It will demonstrate that championing AI regulation is a political asset, not a liability.

It is essential we draw this line in the sand before it is too late.

If you live in NY-12, please consider voting for Alex Bores. And if you don't live there, the chances are you know someone who does. The district encompasses most of Manhattan. Please spread the word to your friends to vote for Alex today.

[@jason @Jason]

If you spend trillions of dollars to summon a demon that you can’t control and don't understand, don’t be surprised when he shows up and burns the place down.

[ Yes, I'm talking about AI ]

[NYC New Liberals 🌐 @NYCNewLiberals]

Proud to endorse Alex Bores! @AlexBores is a pro-housing-supply YIMBY. He will be one of few reps in Congress with a CS degree. At a time of strong populist reaction against technology, we should have a leader in Congress who actually understands the tech & its implications.

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

AI billionaires have spent $8,027,347 trying to beat one New York State Assemblymember.

His name is Alex Bores, and his offense was passing the strongest AI safety law in the country. I broke down who's behind it and why it's backfiring.

Please read & share: 🔗⬇️

[tim buckley ⏸️ @timbucki]

@MicahLasher And different oligarchs are spending $7.6m against him.

The reason so much by the AI community is spent on either side of Bores is he has competence & effectiveness for AI Safety, demonstrated with the RAISE Act. Anti-regulation AI ppl are against him

https://t.co/wWcO30hnue

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

Raising a family in NY shouldn't be a privilege afforded to the very few, yet too many of our neighbors are being priced out of that dream.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

Great to see Secretary @HillaryClinton this week and talk about the issues of AI regulation. She was a tremendous partner in helping get our chatbot regulation bill passed two weeks ago. That bill stops AI companies from creating chatbots that put kids at risk.

She was also a crucial partner when we passed the RAISE Act.

There’s no one more dedicated to protecting children than Secretary Clinton, and it’s tremendous to have her in our corner for this. We met to plan how to get the strongest version of that bill signed into law despite opposition from powerful tech industry interests.

The fight continues.