"Every facet of the federal government, and even a lot of state governments, will benefit from hiring scientists into policy support roles directly instead of interfacing to them through third parties."

New on Policy Gradients: 5 questions with @JoinFAI senior fellow @jachiam0!

Just over a week left to apply for the best AI / SI policy fellowship in DC ➡️➡️

halloween is traditionally the time when the ghouls appear on capital hill october 29th at 7:15 pm @hamandcheese V @aaronsibarium

I really enjoyed this conversation with Geneva! Many interesting things to think about for what the next couple of decades will contain.

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This should be lots of fun - @hamandcheese & @aaronsibarium, moderated by @sckimbriel!

I met with @JoinFAI's newest Non-Resident Senior Fellow @jachiam0 in Berkley last week to discuss the idea of an Acceleration Emergency, mapping the frontier of scientific discovery, and federal jobs guarantees. You can read the highlights of our conversation below.

FAI @efarrellgregory breaks down China's new AI export controls: “The Chinese Ministry of Commerce put together this long list of a range of different AI technologies, well beyond models, some hardware stuff, some infrastructure stuff. It’s basically a tool that could allow them to halt the export of certain AI technology abroad." "Serving a model on foreign servers, exporting weights, could all count as exports. There’s nothing immediate. It’s in the notice and comment period until mid-November." "The Chinese party has a lot of latitude, in non-public ways, to correct how the models are being used. You’ve seen the cyberspace admin in China issue specific corrections to specific companies for specific actions." "The default is default approval for models. There’s no kind of ban right now. The fact that it’s export controls indicates more of a concern about hosting models abroad, about foreign usage, more so than what they’re doing domestically." @JoinFAI

FAI @efarrellgregory argues the Bay Area's rationalist worldview on AI is a historical accident that China doesn't share: "I don’t think people in San Francisco appreciate how contingent and how distinct the language they’re using, the expectations they have, is from what’s going on in China." "A lot of American expectations, which end up shaping the behavior of people at labs, perhaps people in government, are highly contingent on different historical things here." "The prevalence of rationalism in the Bay Area, that’s not a given thing. That way of thinking ends up influencing a lot of people at labs, and there’s not that same tradition of rationalism within China." "I don’t think they’re talking too much about paperclip maxing in China. There is a shared vocabulary that is very easy to reference over here that is just not shared in China." @JoinFAI

It’s been exciting to see many governors and state financial officers signing onto @VP’s anti-fraud pledge. As @DanLips wrote for @CityJournal this summer, partnering with @USTreasury to use Do Not Pay would be a great first step for states to take. city-journal.org/article/do-…

an abundance bro, a postrat and a vitalist (allegedly) walk into a bar… tribes.thefai.org this week we put on our David Attenborough hats and dove into @JoinFAI’s taxonomy of the SF ecosystem

Why won’t the Senate do its job? Here are just some of the anti-fraud bills passed by the House Oversight Committee that have stalled in the Senate: Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act

Fraud costs the American taxpayers up to $521 BILLION a year. The House passed several bipartisan Oversight bills to stop it. But now they're sitting in the Senate. It’s past time for the Senate to take action and lock in these fraud-prevention laws. thehill.com/opinion/congress…

RT @deanwball: Today on Hyperdimensional: on mechanistic interpretability, Nick Cammarata's recent essay, and the beauty of things that are…

always a blast to talk with @timhwang & @jpeaterman. check out tribes.thefai.org and take the quiz — more than 1300 folks found their tribe!

TODAY ON THE FRONTIER: @jpeaterman @maxbodach talk about @JoinFAI's Field Guide to the Tribes of Silicon Valley (tribes.thefai.org) We talk about the policy importance of understanding the fine distinctions between EAs and rats, and the intellectual history of SV ideology