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“I urge you to urge me to stop” (opens the original)
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A small segment of some of the richest people in the world have been funding efforts they call AI safety. I cannot get in the minds to tell you what their motives are. But sure seems like the AI Safety and Effective Altruism Cult are really just trying to grab more control over our technological future. Since their latest media blitz and well funded PR efforts kicked off there was a grassroots counter to their campaign which helped show many of the fallacies of their arguments. Soon researchers
The AI Safety and Effective Altruism Cult Want to “Pace” the Frontier (opens the original)
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Wow what a week. On September 8, a researcher quit Anthropic and posted on X a diatribe about how AI will kill us all. Jacob Coxon posted that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI was acting responsibly and that both were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” The post rapidly hit over 110 million views. Then came the media tour: TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the podcast circuit, CNN and many other major media outlets. In it he claimed he was expert on these
Dragon Falls Book Signing 2pm 6 August at the Black Hat Bookstore (opens the original)
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Next week I’m heading back to Black Hat then Defcon. I hope to see many of you there! On August 6 at 2pm I’ll be at the Black Hat conference bookstore signing copies of Dragon Falls, a military techno-thriller based on my decades of experience in and around the intelligence community. If you enjoy a good spy thriller founded on real world tradecraft this book is for you. Fiction can be more than fun. Fiction is also a great way to explore concepts around open source intelligence, adversary use o
Let's Connect in Vegas, August 2-10 (opens the original)
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If you’re going to be in Vegas between August 2 and 10, ping me. Or better, tell me where to find you.Here’s where I’ll be, track me down!Wednesday, August 5, 1:30-2:45 PM: Veterans in Cyber, The Convergence (inside the Black Hat business hall). This one welcomes our 2026 Veteran scholarship cohort, along with any other veterans working in cybersecurity. Matt Devost will be moderating a discussion among three vets who made the jump from military service into this industry (will talk through what
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