HeyJaredTom Cosgrove Three Ways to Block a Punch
A civic futurist and producer of the public television documentary Divided We Fall: Listening With Curiosity
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What Do We the People Win? (opens the original)
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“WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!”President Trump wrote that two weeks ago. In the same post, he said the only “guardrails” AI needs are “a STRONG AND SMART … PRESIDENT,” adding that his administration already has substantial criminal and regulatory power over AI companies.Okay. But what exactly do we win?OpenAI says its mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence “benefits all o
The Three Most Important Words in America (opens the original)
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Today is Constitution Day. It honors September 17, 1787, when thirty-nine men signed the proposed Constitution of the United States.Their signatures did not make it law. Before the Constitution could replace the Articles of Confederation, it still had to be debated and ratified by conventions in at least nine states. Americans had to be persuaded to entrust authority to a national government that did not yet exist.The Preamble was the proposed Constitution’s statement of purpose. Before explaini
Are We Nuts? (opens the original)
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“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, told CBS News this week.This week, another alignment researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned from Anthropic—walking away two months before his equity would have vested. Think about that. One of the people warning that the race toward superintelligence could endanger humanity literally left his own financial upside on the table.Yet the company is moving toward an IPO that could value it a
The Snake (opens the original)
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Melania Smiled. America Pays. (opens the original)
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Last summer, I offered the writers of South Park an episode idea, free of charge. I had finally figured out why Donald Trump was so angry at Canada.Melania smiled at Justin Trudeau.Not just smiled. Beamed.
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