Father of Jack, husband of Julie. Ex Congress, DoD, @BattenUVa, Prez @utulsa. Prez of @americans4ri. An enthusiast, but w/ a gimlet eye on the log x-axis. Okie!
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What are warning signs that AI is misaligned? We’ve identified 10 categories of misbehavior that developers should monitor for, investigate, and report: guidelight.ai/blog/categorie…
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There's no adequate compensation for the loss of our monopoly on language and cultural production.
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Someone needs to tell these groups that they’re Haliburton in 2006…. There’s no going back
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America can regulate AI and widen its lead at the same time. At a live Washington Post panel, @bradrcarson laid out the playbook.
➡️Tighten and enforce export controls on advanced AI chips.
➡️Crack down on model distillation.
➡️Set guardrails for AI development at home.
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Great opportunity
We’re hiring @americans4ri ! I’m looking for a national security leader to join our policy team and lead our National Security & Strategic Competition portfolio.
If you’re consumed by questions related to a U.S. deal with China, how AI should be adopted for military use, and how to think about questions related to AI economic competition, this job is for you! DM with questions or to flag your interest!
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The extent to which AIFP's updated forecast is so dramatically transformed by the recent METR report makes me think even more that one of the most important and beneficial things that Anthropic could do is release far more un-redacted information from the report immediately, or have the government force them to release more. (cc @KelseyTuoc)
It is possible some of the redactions are legitimate (and the most sensitive could still be limited), but I believe that the tradeoff of accelerating some of the lagging frontier is worth getting more clarity and consensus - the current public evidence base is just not enough to be able for the vast majority of elected leaders to justify urgent and extremely costly policy action.
The conclusions here are far too important to propagate if true, and it is simply not possible to convince skeptics by just saying trust METR.
We need far more people with different beliefs poring over these numbers in detail, because if what METR is saying is true, it is without exaggeration the most important and urgent story in the world right now.
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Great essay from our MATS fellow on why UBI isn't a durable solution to AI-driven unemployment. @sanjanaiyerr lays out four reasons:
1) No capital ownership: you get an income, but you don't own the system producing value.
2) No bargaining power: your leverage comes from what you can withhold, and if you can't without anything you can't credibly make demands. This undermines democratic systems.
3) Extractive systems adapt: governments and markets may use UBI as a license to impose more costs on assets that remain scarce.
4) People feel poor as the reference point moves: "society can provide free housing, food, transit and water, but if breathable air is scarce, an underclass still works 60-hour weeks to afford enough of it."
She also offers an analysis of common UBI-like alternatives including universal basic capital/compute, a windfall clause, and datacenter dividends.
It's ultimately unclear if any redistribution mechanism works when people lose their bargaining power. My position continues to be that we shouldn't sprint to full automation, especially without an answer to this.
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Coming HOME for Homecoming?
We've got a full day of festivities planned at H.A. Chapman Stadium this Saturday!
Here's everything you need to know before you arrive! ⬇️
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[Every tech guy who bought MAGA at the top]:
"Oh so now it's a crime to have an affair with a Chinese spy who is also the CEO of company that's evading export controls while you also lobby the US government to go soft on evasion and weaken the controls?"
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For years, Nvidia denied chip diversion existed, disparaged efforts to enforce export controls, and denied their chips were used by the PLA, all while billions of dollars of Nvidia chips were illegally smuggled to China.
Let's take a look at the record.
Here's what Jensen Huang has to say, word for word:
Chip Diversion Doesn't Exist
Jensen Huang; May 17, 2025: “There is no evidence of any AI chip diversion. Recognize our data center GPUs are massive. These are massive systems. The Grace Blackwell system is nearly two tons. And so you’re not going to be putting that in your pocket or your backpack anytime soon. And so these systems are fairly easy to keep track of.”
China's Military Won't Use Nvidia Chips
Jensen Huang; July 13, 2025: “We don't have to worry about that because the Chinese military, no different than the American military, will not seek each other's technology out to be built on top of it.”
It Doesn't Matter Who Wins the AI Race
CNN/Jensen Huang; July 13, 2025: CNN asks "Let’s say I’m a company, I want to use AI […] does it matter whether [the AI] is American or Chinese?” Huang responds, “Your question about, does it really matter who gets there first? I think in the final analysis, I don't think it does." China Hawk is a Badge of ShameJensen Huang, Sept. 25, 2025: "“If you’re a China hawk you get to wear that label with pride, it’s almost like a badge of honor. It’s a badge of shame, there’s no question it’s a badge of shame.
There Is No Chip Smuggling
Jensen Huang; Nov. 20, 2025: "Over the years, people have speculated about diversion. We've chased down every single concern. And we've repeatedly tested and sampled data centers around the world and found no diversion."
China's Military Doesn't Use Nvidia Chips
Jensen Huang; January 25, 2026: “First of all, H200s are not used by their military because their military, like our military, builds on our own chips. And they build plenty of great chips. Huawei and many new startups, they’ve all gone public this year, hundreds of billions of dollars of market value now in building AI chips. So they have lots of AI chips for themselves.”
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After being briefed that Jensen was sleeping with a suspected Chinese spy, Trump added Jensen to The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Even now, Jensen remains on the list of members.
whitehouse.gov/ostp/presiden…
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She was using a school device, and chatbots were blocked from it.
But AI was embedded in Google Search with no way to disable it. They only discovered how far gone she was when they found a document titled “Funeral” on her computer.
This is why we need safeguards on the technology itself.
gadgetreview.com/parents-say…
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I'm giving a talk and answering questions on Tort Law for Frontier AI tomorrow at @Harvard_Law. Please come say hi!
hls.harvard.edu/events/tort-…
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AI companies admit what they’re building might kill everyone. We don't have to agree to this.
Add your name at donotaccept.ai to say: we do not accept your terms.
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One of our top priorities in the new Congress must be regulating AI: Ensuring AI benefits humanity and doesn’t harm it and ensuring AI’s economic benefits are spread broadly and not hoarded by big corporations and the wealthy.
Scott Wiener has made AI regulation a cornerstone of his political career. Now he’s headed to Congress. trib.al/Ek9Gzd0
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Either Jensen and NVIDIA escape this unscathed and the US government continues to allow the company to export advanced chips to China, or the company's board is compelled by public pressure and the government to ensure that NVIDIA no longer profits from the erosion of American national security. That is the choice.
