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As the gap between the internal models at the AI labs and the ones they release grow (due to safety concerns & research advantages), it will be increasingly tempting for OpenAI & Anthropic to exploit that advantage directly by entering new markets, especially in finance & biotech

Over the past two months, we have been leading a coalition to mitigate one of the most severe bugs in open source software found in recent memory, php2shell, found as part of our Patch the Planet initiative.

Introducing the US Gov Graph - a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government. To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People. Check it out here: graph.civlab.org/us We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI. I'm looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with me in San Francisco. If that's you, inquire here: tally.so/r/KY97RK. Self-governing civilization is counting on you.

Introducing the US Gov Graph - a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government. To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People. Check it out here: graph.civlab.org/us We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI. I'm looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with me in San Francisco. If that's you, inquire here: tally.so/r/KY97RK. Self-governing civilization is counting on you.

A consequential choice will be made soon by government and companies as they are increasingly flooded with agentic AI inquiries that overcome the frictions that gated access (see the graphs - it has already started!) Two options: do you make services worse or better as a result?

I built and posted a zombie game set on San Francisco streets. The setting and the way I promoted it showed poor judgment. Targeting people struggling with addiction or homelessness was never my intention. I’ve taken the game and promotional posts down, refunded all advertisers, and made a personal donation to treatment and recovery services by Delancey Street equal to the game’s total revenue.

I am organizing a class on the Politics and Policy of Superintelligence. You will learn who is in charge of AI regulation and what they’re up to. For tech and policy experts. Join the waitlist here: tally.so/r/w4KzyB

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If you want better parties, you have to make better parties. Enter: Maximum Republicans. New York needs a competitive political ecology, and two parties that compete to offer a strong, positive vision of governance. Here's my part of that grand project: maximumnewyork.com/p/maximum…

interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works already-clean.goodfire.com/

I am organizing a class on the Politics and Policy of Superintelligence. You will learn who is in charge of AI regulation and what they’re up to. For tech and policy experts. Join the waitlist here: tally.so/r/w4KzyB

I am organizing a class on the Politics and Policy of Superintelligence. You will learn who is in charge of AI regulation and what they’re up to. For tech and policy experts. Join the waitlist here: tally.so/r/w4KzyB

the governance of California is significantly more important than the governance of most countries at this point. how they act on AI stuff will decide many things. of the major labs, perhaps only XAI is not technically headquartered in San Francisco

“Don’t tell me the U.S.A. went down the drain because of leftism, apostasy, pornography, polarization, etcetera, etcetera...All these things may have happened, but what finally tore it was that things stopped working and nobody wanted to be a repairman.” city-journal.org/article/wal…

AIs probably aren’t sentient (and we should def stop building them in ways that create the illusion of it!) But it’s still bad to torture them because they’re a mirror to your own humanity, and thus it’s bad for YOU.

It’s insane how fucked up things are on a governance front. It’s insane that we’re this in debt and this incapable of dealing with criminals and we started this moronic war with Iran. Fuck me man we have to be able to do better