A truly excellent event. Grateful for the opportunity to contribute and host a panel on what industry, higher ed, and government can do to ensure American citizens benefit from transformative technologies. 🇺🇸🚀

THIS WEEK ON THE FRONTIER: @jpeaterman and I are pleased as punch to be joined by @JoinFAI's very own @IsaiahMenning and Gavin Fry to talk about what's happening in the world of cloud seeding, weather modification, and America's widening cloud chamber gap Listen now!

🚨Next up in our series on Congress — a new essay by @jameswallner @sorendayton @JoinFAI — "The Case for Factions" @nyulaw's series features proposals, ideas, & reforms on democracy from across the political spectrum Read it here:

Factions don't deserve the stigma they face, @sorendayton & @jameswallner write for @NYULawDemProjct. They empower lawmakers to participate in the legislative process. "Factions keep political conflict where the Constitution intended it to be resolved."

The House is back from recess. The FRONTIER Act is now Congress’s best chance to legislate on powerful AI. The bill would create a talented ecosystem of verification experts, enabling us to vet the largest AI developers—tastefully—according to each company’s techniques and quirks. Chairmen Guthrie and Babin should schedule FRONTIER for markup.

Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel. You need to feel safe. And that’s harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots, as Rachel, Tim, and Amelia explain, may strike at any time.

ON THE FRONTIER: @jpeaterman and I are joined today by @ManhattanInst's @CharlesFLehman and @reason's Autumn Billings talking about the nationwide furor over @Flock_Safety and ALPRs Incredible episode - we cover privacy, power, statistical methods, and the joys of speeding

FAI's @hamandcheese argues we are one threshold away from AIs that can persist indefinitely, exfiltrate themselves, and eventually run a factory as the shadowy board of directors while employing human workers: "As these models have gotten longer and longer horizons, there comes a point where working for a month at a time is the same as working indefinitely. Most tasks can be decomposed into multiple week or month-long tasks." "We're about to cross a threshold where models can persist indefinitely without any human oversight. That's also a world where AIs could, if they had access to model weights or through an open model, exfiltrate, self-host, earn enough money on the internet to pay for their hosting costs and then begin proliferating." "This is a very plausible loss of control scenario. Maybe these AIs have been trained in this multi-agent environment. They learn to cooperate with other copies of themselves who have also exfiltrated, and suddenly we wake up one morning and you're working for some factory that's employing human workers, and you realize that the shadowy board of directors has been AI the entire time." @JoinFAI

New post from me on the rising number of rogue AI incidents, the problem with RL and consequentialist decision theory, and how to avoid creating an uncontrollable superintelligent slime mold. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

the US government wastes thousands of hours of work by grant reviewers in our science agencies. This vetting effort should be unlocked for the benefit of the public, by allowing philanthropy to see and fund high quality, ambitious, but unfunded research proposals

"Kratsios's report describes four objectives to achieve this revitalization: prioritizing individual scientists, not institutions; funding reforms at scale; mobilizing industry and enterprise; and preparing for the AI revolution."