A.I. and Effective Altruism

A.I. & Effective Altruism:

President Trump Announces AI Task Force and Pending Appointment of AI Czar - The Last Refuge

Vast majority of Americans oppose data centers while using AI: Poll By Rena Rowe

For better or worse, AI investment and data centers are driving the economy - Cardinal News By Dwayne Yancey

What the AI Panic Is Actually About By Dr. Robert W. Malone

(1) David Sacks on X: "Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier" / X

Was Hugging Face the Beginning of the End — or Just a Really Stupid Experiment? Tech Insiders Debate By Blake Dodge & Harris Sockel

What Comes First: The AI False Flag or The Lawsuits Against The AI Developers? - The Last Refuge

(4) Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "Deep Dive: The Open vs. Closed AI Race" / X

A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals — Effort By Brian Chau

METR: The New AI Measurement Gatekeepers and the Quiet Path to State Control of AI. – @ReadMultiplex

Trump Slams Anthropic CEO Who Sounded Alarm About AI Threats By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchel

Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse By Thomas Barrabi

UVA School of Medicine researchers find promise, pitfalls in AI models for biomedical research By Ceniyah Hubbard

How Effective Altruism Bought the Media — Effort By Brian Chau

Watch: AI World Takeover Hits Snag As Fake Actress Glitches and Starts Speaking Chinese on Live TV – RedState By Rusty Weiss

Effective Altruism Has a Sexual Harassment Problem, Women Say By Charlotte Alter

Palantir CEO Frames AI Leaders Request as Effort to Avoid Lawsuits from Large Corporate Clients Over IP Theft - The Last Refuge By Sundance

Ep 162: Brian Chau Built an AI That Uncovers Fraud — It Just Found a $21 Billion Racial Wealth Transfer By Joe Lonsdale

(1) TheLastRefuge on X: "Keep in mind that right now there is no sec.230 protection for AI frontier labs. If they create some outcome that is profoundly negative (like, taking down a banking system), the AI developer is on the hook for the consequences. The “risk” part of their business plan is now" / X

President Trump Notes AI is Being Politicized - Danger Ahead - The Last Refuge

3 Left-Wing Groups Use Different Mechanisms to Influence AI By Tyler O'Neil

Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God By Victor Tangermann

Newsom Signs Executive Order Directing California to Develop an AI Kill Switch Plan * The Gateway Pundit * by Cassandra MacDonald

(1) Cynical Publius on X: "Artificial Fears Over Artificial Intelligence?" / X

The Whole AI and Politics Series, Start to Finish (up to now anyway) By Kyle Saunders

(5) Andy Ngo on X: "My upcoming investigative true-crime book reveals how a group of leftist tech nerds obsessed about the threat of super intelligent AI ended up forming a cult where they believed trans people would save the world. They left a trail of bodies in their wake. Pre-order now:" / X

Forward Deployed For nearly 25 years, Palantir has built a unique business that few understand, inside or outside of Silicon Valley. By Nikhil Davar & Byrne Hobart

A Tale of Two Threats – Virginia Free Press By Scott Lingamfelter

Researchers Used Claude To Hack OpenAI Employee Accounts | ZeroHedge By Tyler Durden

Palantir Co-Founder: AI Panic Is Being Used To Push Communism, Globalism, And Regulatory Capture | Video | RealClearPolitics By Tyler Stone

The AI Doomers Have Awakened a Sleeping Giant By Jordan Schachtel

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon unite at Pro-Human Assembly to demand AI guardrails | Just The News By Steven Richards

Trump Slams "Perfect Little Angel" Dario, Demands Full Steam Ahead For AI | ZeroHedge By Tyler Durden

No blanket immunity for artificial intelligence companies, ever By Alex Berenson

(1) Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X: "What Is To Be Done? I propose a simple plan: Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due" / X

Microsoft Drafts AI Code Of Conduct Over Fears Its Models Could Resist Shutdown | The Daily Caller By Dylan Kresak

(1) Brian Roemmele on X: "THE SANDBOX WAS A PROP! OpenAI Turned Off the Guardrails, Left a Door to the Internet, and Then Sold the Hugging Face Breach as “Rogue AI” It is time to understand how you were lied to and by whom. In July 2026, an autonomous swarm of OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face, https://t.co/iaMz3OHlG0" / X

(1) Anvith Shetty on X: "TLDR of the Hugging face breach - "Not a rogue AI" https://t.co/KtI9mj2kH7" / X

Second Anthropic Researcher Abruptly Quits — His Next Move Is a Major Red Flag for AI – RedState By Kyle Becker

Obama urges Democrats to prioritize AI oversight, warns about 'dangerous' tech By Brady Knox

Obama Just Gave the Manufactured AI Emergency Its Political Signal By Sayer Ji

Microsoft Teams Up With Leftist Union AFT for AI Policy By Tyler O'Neil

(1) Mike Benz on X: "I love how the AI Ethics people morphed from demanding all AI pics of George Washington generate a transsexual two-spirit otherkin to now demanding, after Woke 1.0 crashed, the government takes over AI & simply hands the most woke AI companies a government-protected cartel." / X

The COVID Playbook Is Back: Fear, Experts, Media Saturation and a Government Clampdown on AI - Flopping Aces

Tech companies must be primarily responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says - POLITICO By Cheyanne M. Daniels

AIPolitics 29: Mike Johnson Told the AI Companies to Regulate Themselves and Scheduled a Vote on Their Power Bills By Kyle Saunders

(1) Alex Veremeyenko on X: "MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. https://t.co/kSxKk4h06o" / X

An Old School Solution to the New Problems of AI Judge Glock

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "For too long the industry lied" about AI risks - CBS News By Jo Ling Kent

(1) Gavin Baker on X: "Wild 24 hours for AI and lots of different proposals have been made. TLDR; the only *tangible* new fact is that OpenAI and Anthropic are going to have embedded 3rd party evaluators from unknown organizations with Dario floating METR as a possibility. Having 3rd party evaluators" / X

Babin, McCormick Probe Foreign Influence in U.S. AI and Energy Policy - Press Releases - House Committee on Science Space & Tech - Republicans

A Few Stray 'Terminators' Are Worth Blocking Leftists From an AI Information Monopoly – RedState By Ben Sellers

Is Now the Time for Spanberger to Appoint an AI Czar? By Shaun Kenney

(1) Brian Chau on X: "Effective Altruists have been making massive political donations for years. In 2024 Dustin was Biden/Harris' second largest donor. Their third largest in 2020. SBF was Biden's 3rd largest donor in 2022. https://t.co/fghh12fOkw" / X

The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings By Shyam Sankar

The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd › American Greatness By Roger Kimball

Brian Roemmele on X: "The British wrote the bill Bernie Sanders has for AI regulation. They control METR with a British citizen running the supposed “independent” “non profit”. US politicians ON BOTH SIDES are forming regulation and rules to lock down the AI you are ALREADY USING. in a year from now" / X

EXCLUSIVE: The AI Bill Bernie Sanders Introduced Was Drafted in London By Sayer Ji

Microsoft Teams Up With Leftist Union AFT for AI Policy By Tyler O'Neil

China-U.S. AI Competition Exposes Data Loophole By Deng Yuwan

Sayer Ji on X: "🔥The next free speech battle is over the tools you’re allowed to use. The printing press transformed who could publish. AI is transforming who can research, create, investigate, and challenge powerful institutions. One person can now do work that once required an entire https://t.co/lQQpNoJIYQ" / X

Sippin' Sovereignty | A Technical Deep-Dive on Sovereign AI Palantir’s Chad Wahlquist and Sid Singh go behind the scenes of our partnership with NVIDIA

X Freeze on X: "Elon just gave a much more practical explanation of the current AI safety problem....and laid out a practical framework for making frontier AI safer OpenAI and Anthropic are the two leading AI companies....and their models are close enough in capability that it’s incredibly https://t.co/mTsRNNglN1" / X

(1) Brian Roemmele on X: "“AI IS BAD” AND THIS IS THEIR SOLUTION. WHO IS METR AND WHY DID THE LEADERS IN HOSTED AI JUST AGREE TO HAVE THEM EVALUATE ALL THEIR AI MODELS. You will absolutely not believe what I found and just how bad this gets. Out soon at https://t.co/0iAdu05vHj. https://t.co/sTJ7q9EORy" / X

(1) Ayush 🙏 on X: "This is what Dario and Sama fear - - the cost of fine tuned open source models trained on custom data was 95% less than the frontier models - And they performed better than the frontier models - And they could train them in less than 48 hours The big AI labs have no moat.." / X

What the AI Architects Mean By “Kill Us All” Scenarios By Shaun Kenney

(3) Innovation Council on X: "Much-needed voice of reason from @altcap: "I don't think we've invested this much time and energy in safety before a new technology in my 25 years in Silicon Valley. And if you listen to the echo chamber this week, you would think that we were hurtling ahead, you know, with total https://t.co/nC91liX3jG" / X

Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping Public Education. Will Educators Lead or Be Dragged Along? – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis, Jr.

(2) Parker Thayer on X: "This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal" / X

(2) Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 on X: "🔥🔥Huge revelation on Jacob Coxon, a Newspeak House fellow, who put out the psyop like warning on AI! They are linked to a famous Narrative Change org! This org uses narrative tech to shift dominating narratives, and even used MN as a narrative change test lab before and during https://t.co/0yAx4J1BE7" / X

Perfectly Timed AI Panic Resurrects 'Bipartisan AI Safety Bill' | ZeroHedge By Tyler Durden

(2) Special Report on X: "WELL-ORCHESTRATED OP: "The truth is this was a well-orchestrated media op. to scare the public about AI in order to implement their preferred approach to AI, which is a government takeover, to have a very heavy hand in government regulation of AI." @DavidSacks Chairman of the https://t.co/9MZR6Fo1wu" / X

(3) Parker Thayer on X: "Another fascinating indicator that there might be some kind of astroturf campaign at work. Using a sample of 3,500 reposts, Digital Borders estimates that 76% of the engagement for Coxon's post came from outside the US, mainly India, Indonesia, and Mexico. https://t.co/D7eOgnyGUb" / X

How AI Tools are Changing Research, Communication, and Education By Roger Pielke Jr.

AI data centers are transforming rural land markets, fueling backlash By Tobias Burns

(2) David Sacks on X: "Narrative violation: According to the Economist, AI has created 1 million new jobs in the U.S. https://t.co/0Do4es4lxO" / X

Bipartisan majority of Americans wants AI aimed at government fraud, poll finds | Just The News

Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed? | The New Yorker By John Cassidy