NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be "justified in going rogue." Experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade." So do some government officials. Once relegated to science fiction, the idea of "AI welfare" has become shockingly mainstream at some of the most powerful companies in the world. It is changing the way AI research is conducted and the way models are programmed. And critics say these changes have raised the odds of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios—including the ones these companies are warning about. I spent months investigating the frontier labs and AI "safety" experts seeking to regulate AI. What I found was a profoundly anti-human ideology that would alarm the average citizen and could determine the future of a world-altering technology.🧵

EXCLUSIVE: Philadelphia public schools hosted prison abolition workshops for students as young as 7th grade taught by a convicted felon who has argued that Jews control the media and was involved in torching a police car. The sessions took place at the at the Workshop School, where zero percent of students are proficient in math. Story w/@zach_kessel:

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of documents showing how UC Berkeley's flagship law review discriminates based on race. Members of the journal's admissions committee pledged to "uplift Native voices," weigh "diverse life experience" against "technical editing abilities," and "integrate anti-racist sentiment" into the selection process. One editor—a former deputy at Politico—boasted that she "did not consider grades" when evaluating journalists, instead using personal statements to grow her team "from just one person of color—me—to fifty percent hires from underrepresented backgrounds." Here's how one of the top law reviews in the country is bypassing bans on affirmative action: 🧵