Embroidery CEO @ZackKorman argues AI labs can’t be good at security while treating security as doomed to fail: "The only way to make security work is to believe in security working. The moment you start saying security won't work is the moment you start being terrible at security. There has never been a good security organization in the world that has been walking around talking about how security is irrelevant," "After Hugging Face, you need to be a little bit scared about how bad you were at security. But instead they just ran around going, wow, this is really terrifying about alignment." "That means you're not gonna get that much better at security, and I think we've seen some aspects of that playing out already."

Embroidery CEO @ZackKorman says Europe picked the wrong AI safety fight, telling the US how to regulate OpenAI and Anthropic instead of securing its own systems: "A bunch of European prime ministers decided the highest priority thing we can work on is telling the US how to regulate Anthropic and OpenAI. The US basically said, the US is gonna regulate the US, you guys can regulate your own countries, have fun." "There are some very real things we can do to address AI safety from Europe, which would be making our own systems more secure. But we're not doing that. We were like, let's not bother with any of the real security, let's just come up with a letter." "There has been no headway in almost any of these countries on actual security work. I know that in Norway we have done nothing. There's been no movement."

Embroidery CEO @ZackKorman says the AI safety debate keeps jumping from today’s cyber failures straight to “machine god,” instead of proving we can secure everything in between: "The discussion typically stops when we get to, yeah, but Zack, imagine the model's even smarter. It's sort of like a four-year-old going, and then the god lasers out of its eyes." "If we give birth to a machine god that can commit any egregious act on the intellect alone, no one's gonna be around to make fun of me for being wrong. But prior to that point, if you wanna make that argument, you better prove you're good at the security stuff before it." "We're only talking about cybersecurity for the purposes of talking about how it doesn't work when we achieve machine god. All of the points prior to machine god will work." "If it was framed as, one group thinks there's a machine god and the solution is to make it nice, and another group thinks the solution is to secure things so it doesn't kill people in its pre-god state, people would be like, yeah, make sure it's secure."

Embroidery, wax painting and batik took center stage at a traditional handicraft competition and ethnic fashion show in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province. The event on Friday aimed to tap the rich resources of traditional handicrafts, helping women increase their incomes.

【Portuguese Cultural Official: “Embroidery in My Hometown Was Learned From China”】 A delegation of cultural officials from nine Portuguese-speaking countries recently visited Guangzhou. During a hands-on Cantonese embroidery session at the city’s historic Yongqing Fang precinct, Luís Filipe Reis dos Santos, Director-General of the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries under Portugal’s Ministry of Culture, noted that the same embroidery craft exists in his hometown — and it was originally introduced from China.

Italian designers try Miao embroidery in Kaili, Guizhou. With every stitch and thread, they experience the exquisite craftsmanship of Guizhou's Miao embroidery. This cross-cultural exchange is truly fascinating! #ItalianFriendsAmazedByGuizhou# #EveryoneFallsInLoveWithGuizhou#

Tiaohua cross-stitch embroidery is a traditional handicraft passed down through generations by women of Huayao, a branch of Yao ethnic group, in Longhui County. The origin of Tiaohua cross-stitch embroidery dates back to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. - 220 A.D.) and reached maturity during the Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties. The embroideries feature a unique "Qingsha" stitching skill, and are improvised with silk threads on blue homespun cloth without pre-drawn designs. Even an ordinary embroidered tube skirt may contain hundreds of thousands of stitches, requiring several months or even years to complete. In 2006, Longhui Huayao Tiaohua embroidery making skill was listed in the first batch of the national intangible cultural heritages. Since the Huayao people have no written language, Tiaohua embroidery has played an important role in preserving their cultural and historical heritage, earning it the title "a wordless history book worn on the body." "Every pattern has a spiritual meaning behind," said Shen Yanxi, a provincial-level inheritor of Tiaohua. Over the centuries, Tiaohua cross-stitch embroidery has changed in style, with patterns and colors being renewed to better suit contemporary aesthetics. In recent years, Longhui County has promoted the preservation and innovation of Tiaohua by leveraging cultural tourism, digital preservation, and projects introducing intangible cultural heritage into campuses, bringing this traditional skill, once secluded in remote areas, to a wider audience around the world.