David Atkins
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Taming the AI Monster (opens the original)
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As much as the political world has been turned upside down by the Donald Trump administration’s callous cruelty, rampant corruption, and woeful incompetence, it is hard to shake the feeling that in a decade it will be a footnote compared to humanity’s collective failure to reckon with artificial intelligence. This summer has seen breathtaking breakouts, hacks, and escapes by frontier AI models. The most publicized was the Hugging Face attack, in which hundreds of OpenAI agents slipped out of a t
I’m a DNC Committee Member. The Party Isn’t Broken (opens the original)
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Rarely in recent politics has there been a bigger disconnect between the public perception of an organization and reality than there is between base Democrats and the Democratic National Committee. Go on any online forum, and you will see progressives decry “the DNC” as a corrupt bastion of the insider establishment politics that has become toxic to so many primary voters. Meanwhile, DNC Chair Ken Martin has come under heavy fire from nearly the entire Washington, D.C. establishment for supposed
The Case for the DNC’s Ken Martin. Really (opens the original)
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Seemingly every few weeks, there is a new round of attacks on Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin. However, Chair Martin is doing exactly what my fellow DNC members and I elected him to do: raise record funds, invest in state and local organizing to win elections, and displace Washington, D.C.-based consultants running an ineffective but lucrative business model at the expense of electoral results. When the voting members of the Democratic National Committee, including myself, met in
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