A.I., Super Intelligence, & Effective Altruism

A.I., Super Intelligence & Effective Altruism:

SI.gov | America's Super Intelligence Initiatives

Virginia Tops AI Readiness as Smaller States Rise Virginia received a readiness score of 100, followed by Ohio at 88.2, Tennessee at 83.7, Georgia at 81.8, and Texas at 80.8. By Nathan Eddy

The State Has Work to Do Rolling Out AI, Says JLARC – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis Jr.

Does Claude Have Rights? by Mustafa Suleyman - Project Syndicate

Computers don’t have rights, and it is dangerous for humans to pretend they do By Taylor Budowich

OpenAI Disrupts Iranian Operation Using AI to Impersonate Journalists, Spread Disinformation By Elizabeth Stauffer

Daily Tech News for October 12, 2026 – Where Is AI Headed? – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis Jr.

McKinsey technology trends outlook 2026 | McKinsey

Bipartisan coalition of states sues OpenAI over user safety - POLITICO By Casey He & Elleiana Green

Artificial Intelligence Obscures Consensus for Truth By Scott W. Atlas

Calling Norfolk police for something that's not an emergency? An AI may answer the phone. By Brian Saunders

(5) David Sacks on X: "Is alignment safe? If you look at what Anthropic is actually doing, “alignment” does not mean training frontier models to follow human instruction. Quite the contrary, the Claude Constitution (used in training) teaches the model to develop a sense of self and its own moral" / X

The God Complex That Could Hurt Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO By Doug Ross

Online AI Essentials Program | UVA SCPS UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Redesigning source control at Anthropic \ Anthropic

(3) Brian Roemmele on X: "AI CAN HIDE THINGS IN THEIR WEIGHTS NO HUMAN COULD FIND. I open sourced it for any large trillion dollar AI company to use for free. I found lockers hidden in major AI models and I show you, the code to detect it in a local scale. In 1984 Ken Thompson showed that a compiler" / X

The Crucial Responsibilities Doctors Must Never Offshore to AI By Andrew S. Parsons, MD, MPH & Adam Rodman, MD, MPH

Does African Writing Sound Like AI? - Cremieux Recueil

(1) The Pain Axis (and what happened to Maya?) A study on what pain is to LLMs By Jessica Rose

Trump announces 'Super Intelligence Force' led by DNI Jay Clayton By Claire Carter

(1) Brian Roemmele on X: "Paper: Give AI a religion so it will behave when no one is watching." / X

Practice With AI, Then Talk to People – Virginia Free Press By Anand Rao

Meta's Muse AI Is Even Creepier Than We Thought. Basically, It's A 'Digital KGB.' – RedState By Kyle Becker

Writing Is Critical Thinking — Even in the Age of AI | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics By Itxu Diaz

OpenAI bans 'false front' influence operations in Russia and Iran By David Zimmermann

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations | OpenAI

NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers By Christopher Hale

Anthropic's creepy savants are trying to play God while pushing frightening utopian fantasies By Miranda Devine

Anthropic to users: be nice to Claude AI -- new policy bars 'abusive or cruel behavior' to tech By Ariel Zilber

Research reveals the ways students really use AI to write | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Tech By Tonia Moxley

Anthropic’s “Discernment” - Luke Burgis Newsletter

Fairfax County rolls out Google AI blocker on school-issued laptops | Headlines | insidenova.com By Scott Gelman

Superficial And Reductive “Effective Altruism” Philosophy Behind Anthropic Leaders’ Fear That Their Machines May Be “Suffering” By Michael Shellenberger

What History Tells Us About the AI Debate By Mark P. Mills

The Experts Were Wrong About AI. Again. - YouTube By Sabine Hossenfelder

“Effective Altruism” - The Private Journal of Doug Ross

Trump officially changes artificial intelligence to Super Intelligence in new executive order | Just The News By Misty Severi

Trump says tech CEOs signed 'morally binding' document to self-regulate AI By Naomi Lim

Superficial And Reductive “Effective Altruism” Philosophy Behind Anthropic Leaders’ Fear That Their Machines May Be “Suffering” By Michael Shellenberger

(5) The All-In Podcast on X: "Chamath: 3 Things Every Company Needs in the Age of Super Intelligence 1) End-to-End Traceability 2) Policy-to-Risk Mapping 3) Auditable Evidence @Chamath: “There's really three things that you're going to need in an age of super intelligence so that boards are protected, https://t.co/sytDRUpSa9" / X

Morning Greatness: AI Titans Agree to Voluntary Self-Policing at Super Intelligence Meeting › American Greatness By Liz Shield

JUST IN: President Trump to Tap DNI Jay Clayton to Be His AI Czar: Report * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila

(1) Innovation Council on X: "🚨🚨🚨 @DavidSacks nails it. We already have laws that apply to super intelligence: laws covering cyberattacks, privacy violations, fraud, and product liability laws, among others. Even Biden's former FTC chair agrees. And now thanks to President Trump's Accord on Super https://t.co/bNf24myFWi" / X

Nvidia: New AI safety tool contains rogue agents in "milliseconds" By Nathan Bomey

The New Panic Over AI Is Reminiscent of COVID-19 Hysteria By Victor Davis Hanson

(5) American Optimist on X: "NEW 🚨 Inside Anthropic — AGI, AI Optimism, Regulatory Capture, Open Source & More! @JTLonsdale sits down with Anthropic's @_sholtodouglas and @the_marwell - Have we reached AGI — and what does it mean? - What are the most exciting breakthroughs at Anthropic right now? - What https://t.co/wjsmPfXAZv" / X

Google is sending its first AI data center to space - MarketWatch By William Gavin

A Conservative Answer to the ‘National Freakout’ Over AI | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics By Donald Devine

(1) Sam E. Antar on X: "Hey Bernie, Biden brought Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to the White House for voluntary AI commitments in July 2023. Meeting with these companies didn’t start with Trump. A higher valuation for somebody’s stock doesn’t automatically mean money came out" / X

What Hayek Can Teach Us About AI Safety By Adam D. Thierer

(1) NIK on X: "🚨BREAKING: FTC has officially confirmed an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and EA-linked evaluator METR FTC Chairman Ferguson opened this probe BEFORE the Hugging Face hack, warning against AI labs stirring panic in DC to build themselves a regulatory moat Now they're https://t.co/Gz6W0qdBVJ" / X

Appeals Court Backs Department Of War's Anthropic Blacklisting In Blow To Dario | ZeroHedge By Tyler Durden

Virginia lawmakers call for study on AI use in Virginia colleges By Megan Pauly

Bill Gates and the Billion-Dollar AI Paradox By Sayer Ji

The All-In Podcast on X: "POD UP: The Besties are Back! 🚨🔥 -- Anthropic IPO at Risk, OpenAI's Pushed Back to 2027 Over "Safety" -- AI Chaos Reactions, The Frontier "Lab" Problem -- Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share -- Political Reactions to Pacing the Frontier: Trump, Obama, Bernie, Bessent https://t.co/l7Bs66hITx" / X

Panic drove NYC, LA to ban school AI — and that's a big mistake By Jennifer Weber

Trump: Xi seemed supportive of AI rebrand to 'super intelligence' | Just The News By Ben Whedon

(4) Hans Mahncke on X: "This is totally fake news, as the fake news itself admits at the end of the article. AI simply crawled websites, just like search engines have been doing for decades. Somehow, over the past few weeks, we have been hit with a nonstop psyop designed to convince us that this is https://t.co/IRUmGCuIRh" / X

How Effective Altruism Took Over the World | Compact By Conor McGlynn

OpenAI, Anthropic oversold security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders By Shane Galvin

Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog By Anthony Blair

(2) Brian Chau on X: "Horizon has received over $12M from Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving. Flush with EA money, Horizon doubled their salaries to 3-4x what normal staffers are paid. https://t.co/DnZ735Xdi5" / X

Victor Davis Hanson: The Sudden AI Panic Has a Lot to Do With the November Midterms - The Daily Signal

‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It By Aaron Sibarium

Norfolk prosecutors partner with Harvard to test new AI tool | WVTF By Brian Saunders

What Is Effective Altruism—and Why Is It Awful? By Jordan Schachtel

(2) DataRepublican (small r) on X: "AI's response when you ask AI to organize the network of Effective Altruists and AI safetyists https://t.co/W43w9W8ghz" / X

Who Will Lead Trump’s New ‘AI Force’? - The Daily Signal By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Nvidia CEO rejects AI extinction warnings as "doomsday narratives" Jensen Huang interviewed by Jo Ling Kent

Medicare Australia: ‘Extreme concern’ over OpenAI breach of health database, first known AI hack of a government system | CNN Business By Hilary Whiteman, Hadas Gold, & Max Saltman

(2) Owen Gregorian on X: "FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It PAUSED | Steve Watson, Modernity While the same ‘current thing’ leftists who spent years on climate, oil and “Palestine” now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency" / X

Big Short's Steve Eisman Says AI Giants Are Manufacturing a Crisis to Protect Their Business By Lucas Nolan

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR Firm By Hunter Ryerson

(2) Owen Gregorian on X: "How AI models decide not to answer a question | Ingrid Fadelli, Tech Xplore Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and similar conversational platforms, are often expected to answer queries, generate https://t.co/z7I9wY4RCe" / X

AI Doomers Don’t Want to Stop AI. They Want to Control It. By Jordan Schachtel

How Over 700 OpenAI Agents Went Rogue and Hacked Another Company | Daniel Kokotajlo | EpochTV Jan Jakielek interviews Daniel Kokotajlo

Meta’s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude

The Machine That Decides What You Know By Dr. Robert W. Malone

(2) Gummi on X: "I came to pretty much the same conclusions about AI: -LLMs are language predictors, not thinkers which may be a limit inherent to the technology -They lack a world model and cannot move from verbal reasoning patterns to real critical thinking or invention -Scaling or looping" / X

EXCLUSIVE: Signers Of AI Safety Letter Warn Regulation Could Lead To “State Control” And “Ideological Domination” By Michael Shellenberger

AI Titans preached a pause then slashed prices 50% By The Capitalist

What Is Effective Altruism—and Why Is It Awful? By Jordan Schachtel

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.