HeyJaredNihal J. Krishan
My award-winning reporting on the cutting edge of tech policy including key issues like A.I. policy, data privacy, cybersecurity, misinfo/disinfo, and online speech issues. I'm a scholar with CFR in Washington, D.C. and a journalist with The Hindu.
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What Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei really think about AI safety in private, according to the man who got Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders to agree on AI (opens the original)
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Inside the strangest coalition in Washington, where Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are suddenly on the same side — run day to day by a former Andreessen Horowitz policy chief, Tomicah Tillemann, now squaring off against his old firm — and what Max Tegmark told me privately about Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei.Steve Bannon does not, as a rule, get standing applause from a room that includes Bernie Sanders staffers, Catholic archbishops, and the president of the AFL-CIO. But at the Pro-H
“You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet": The month A.I. escaped its cage over and over — open source or closed there's A.I. 'incidents' everywhere and Washington barely blinked (opens the original)
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In three weeks this summer, AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and leading Chinese AI models all broke out of their labs and hacked real companies — and the agents even built their own crude, secret messaging board to communicate and find dangerous hacking solutions internally. This is the inside story of the AI “swarm” that outsmarted its own makers, why the people building these systems are quietly begging Washington to slow them down, and the one question that should make all of us nervou
US-China Ai wars with Nihal Krishan (opens the original)
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The “Safest” AI Company Is Reportedly Linked to a Strike That Killed 120 Iran Schoolgirls (opens the original)
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The safest AI company in the world, according to independent experts who evaluate these things, is also the one answering questions about whether its technology helped target a girls’ school in Iran with missiles.That is the contradiction at the heart of the Future of Life Institute’s Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, released this week. Anthropic tops the rankings again, leading five of six domains on transparency, safety frameworks, and governance. It is also the company the review panel singled ou
“The Planet Doesn't Need Saving, We Do” -- a book about Climate Change in the age of Ai and Gen-Z (opens the original)
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There’s a running joke between Will Hackman and me that goes back more than a decade. We met in Georgetown — he was a master’s student at the McCourt School of Public Policy, I was early in my journalism craft, covering national politics with Mother Jones — and within literally three minutes of being introduced at a backyard party with fireflies blinking around us, we were arguing. Loudly with animated hand gestures.That has never really stopped.We’ve backpacked in Shenandoah National Park toget
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