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There's been a palpable vibe shift on this issue in recent weeks. At the same time, we're days away from congress potentially killing state level AI regulation for a decade, with no federal regs. AI safety is winning the war of ideas, but tech is winning the policy fights.

Excellent piece from Heritage Foundation scholars Daniel Cochrane and Jack Fitzhenry. The proposed moratorium on state AI regulation is fatally flawed and should be scrapped. It fails at its core goals while impinging on states' capacity to protect their citizens.

When you've lost Heritage Foundation, Josh Hawley, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, & Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (plus sort of JD Vance) on a partisan Republican measure, maybe it's time to reconsider.

The paper doesn’t make this claim at all, nor could it given the methodology. (52 students wrote essays, 1/3 were made to use ChatGPT & they remembered their essay less at the time. 4 months later 18 people came back & the ChatGPT group were still less engaged in their essay)

Life in 1776: - heat is such a luxury that Thomas Jefferson can’t write in deep winter bc his ink freezes (one reason perhaps why Independence Day is in July) - nighttime darkness is such a burden that George Washington reportedly spent $15k in today’s dollars on candles every

Frontier AI regulation should focus on the handful of large AI developers at the frontier, not on particular models or uses. That is what Dean Ball (Dean W. Ball) and I argue in a new article, out today from Carnegie (Carnegie Endowment).

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New podcast episode with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein on their article ‘AI Rights for Human Safety’. pnc.st/s/forecast/d76…

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I'm glad to see this work come to light. A point that I think bears emphasizing is that insurance only works in tandem with appropriate liability rules. Preempting/displacing liability, as some in the private governance literature have suggested, cuts insurance off at its knees.

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1. A highly motivated person with college bio training could probably make a bio weapon right now using Googlable info 2. The barriers to doing that are nonetheless much higher than the barriers to buying a gun in the US 3. There are enough individuals motivated to do political

The 10 MSAs *hardest hit* by the China Shock all had positive real wage growth since 2001. Some may be worse off relative to a counterfactual of "no China Shock" -- but most are doing just great anyway

As written, this language from the AI Action Plan is not particularly objectionable, but I suspect that the administration has a different view of where to draw the line between "prudent laws that are not unduly restrictive to innovation" & "burdensome AI regulations" than I do.

I really wish people offering this kind of take would delve a little bit into the thousands of years of philosophers arguing about what it means for human minds to “know” things — it’s not obvious, meaning it’s equally non-obvious when you ask about a silicon mind.